Hi @Reuters
Some people could see this without realising that (as stated in the article) the volunteer took the placebo.
They therefore might decide not to take a safe vaccine.
They could die as a consequence.
Please. Don't.
** SOME PROFESSIONAL NEWS **
On Saturday May 15th I will be saying goodbye to Washington DC and returning home to London
On Monday May 17th I will be saying HELLO to my new role as European economics editor*
*correspondent, really. @chrislockwd and @r_shanbhogue will edit me
having just spent several minutes literally crying with laughter at the posts on this twitter account, I wish you a good evening
now I must start the cat training regime
Ehem. I have left twitter because I find it makes me unhappy and destroys my ability to concentrate. But I'm back (briefly) to promote a piece I wrote this week on women and econ. A year ago, I wrote this, which explores the problem of economics and women
Some parental news… late on Friday, Caspar Cecil Keynes-Allies arrived. He and his quite extraordinary mum are now safely at home. Looking forward to starting my embarrassing dad era.
** SOME EXCITING NEWS **
After almost eight wonderful years at The Economist, in July I’m moving on to join the @FT as an economics columnist and podcaster.
🧵 THREAD 🧵
The economist Robert Solow passed away a couple of weeks ago. So for my column this week I decided to write about... unconditional convergence. The idea that poor countries grow faster than rich ones. Does it happen in the real world?
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