Bisexuality and Long COVID: Significant Mistakes Were Made Attempting to Replicate a Connection
I honor a blogger’s request to let him know if he gets something significantly wrong and I suggest a lot of people will have much to tell him.
A trusted source alerted me that I would find something upsetting in Scott Alexander’s Astral Codex Ten Substack article, “Replication Attempt: Bisexuality and Long COVID.” My friend was correct, as usual.
Amazingly, Scott has an open request that we point out his mistakes in what he writes.
At his Astral Codex Ten website, Scott Alexander has a Mistakes page that states
I don't promise never to make mistakes. But if I get something significantly wrong, I'll try to put it here as an acknowledgement and an aid for anyone trying to assess my credibility later.
I like to point out mistakes before they are made.
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