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In this life Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
Keith Humphreys
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Keith Humphreys
@KeithNHumphreys
Esther Ting Memorial Professor at Stanford University. Public policy advisor, film buff, and native of West by God Virginia. Tweets are my personal opinions.
Stanford, CA
Joined November 2013
- A simple, free, kind, thing we can all do is never ask anyone who declines an alcoholic beverage for an explanation.
- Circus performers line up to get a COVID vaccination in London. Photo by Matt Crossick.
- If she subpoenas Colada, she'll be caught and arraigned.
- BREAKING: California has completed its vote count. Congratulations to Dwight Eisenhower.
- Most of my great public health colleagues are greatly over-estimating the likelihood that the U.S. can mount a national test, trace, and isolate program as have countries like Germany and South Korea. My friends are mistaking a political-cultural challenge for a technical one 1/9
- I respect that fact that Dolly Patron made this investment in Nashville's Black neighborhoods, and also that she didn't feel the need to mention it until asked 30 years later.
- A change in academia that still shocks me is how comfortable some people have become openly discussing the putative value of withholding some accurate study findings in light of imagined political consequences. Once you go down this road, there is no route back to public trust.
- A PhD holding male friend of mine, married to a MD, overheard his little boy telling a friend "Both of my parents are doctors, but Daddy is the kind of doctor who doesn't help anyone".
- An academic walks into a bar and Reviewer 3 says this is not the joke he would have told.
- Study I would like to see: Have 10 rich kids write college admissions essays about growing up in poverty and despair and have 10 kids who actually did grow up in poverty and despair do the same and ask admissions officers to say which are more compelling (I fear the former).
- Best conclusion to a comedy series in the history of television. RIP to the legendary Bob Newhart.
