Are men’s beards dirtier than dog fur? Yes, according to stories by the BBC, HuffPo, the NY Post, and umpteen other… https://t.co/4lbwUXoqor

This stupid story was everywhere recently. HuffPo, bizarrely, ran MULTIPLE stories and made a video. Dozens of head… https://t.co/LdNWCSCKoL

The wave of coverage was prompted by a tiny study that ran in the journal European Radiology that’s been online sin… https://t.co/m4j2x1ZF6g

Reading the paper you discover that the bacteria samples for men were taken below their mouths, while the dog sampl… https://t.co/INBNC12jPT

here's an illustration from the paper, which kind of makes bacteria look like ticks. https://t.co/tj2AtXCG7f

If we’re cherrypicking parts of the body to sample and compare, then all bets are off and you can prove anything.

Also, they found more microbes in the saliva of men than in the saliva of dogs. So one way to interpret this is tha… https://t.co/Xm8HqIzupj

But this points to a deeper problem with the thinking about microbiota. Having less bacteria on your skin or in you… https://t.co/BFWc7AVjP5

In addition there were reports that men harbored DANGEROUS bacteria in their beards. As HuffPo put it: “The amount… https://t.co/wGxsrQLd4k

First, this has nothing to do with the “amount” of bacteria. They did find strains of Enterococcus faecalis and Sta… https://t.co/luhqNaW72e

Also, the difference in pathogenic (i.e., harmful) bacterial strains found in dogs vs. bearded humans “does not mee… https://t.co/6DXxXFYj5k

@tebartl We-e-e-ll, using an arbitrary 5% threshold for statistical significance as a way of deciding whether or no… https://t.co/mPhMC272VN

.@sTeamTraen: search @tebartl & "Tom Vara". I'm sure you're smart enough to realize why he blogged it. Trump's horrific, but Navarro is a threat to Big Biz/free trade/globalism. They paid Tom Bartlett to dim that down to the "Drumpf" level but the goal is familiar: help Big Biz.