#Scientific

Carl

GMCarlplus5

Spiderman: was asked Is SM more powerful than his villains and this was my reply "No. It isn't heroic beating up someone weaker than you so usually fight, lose, plan,

Lars Brudvig

lars_brudvig

What’s this view have to do with you? Read on to find out, through a thread about ecosystem restoration, an amazing discovery, and a scientific revolution.The message to this story:

Colin Wright

SwipeWright

Inventing the scientific method had to be achieved against a constant headwind of innumerable human cognitive biases. That headwind never subsides.So while science is often described as "self-correcting," that is

Prof. Mosa Moshabela

MoshabelaMosa

The Minister @DrZweliMkhize is engaging very comfortably with the science of Covid-19. He's showing a much deeper understanding of the nuances in his articulation. He's even brought together 'competing' scientific

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸

julie_kelly2

Florida is the world’s CV-19 laboratory right now. If there isn’t a huge spike in infections over the next 7-10 days, we will know every single “mitigation” strategy and doomsday

Mac n’ Chise 🧬🧫🦠

sailorrooscout

Vaccines are preventives, not cures. The purpose of vaccination is to bring the severity down to the level of a benign virus. That’s how this works. In the face of

Dr. Adele Hite

ahhite

It's presumptuous (& wrong) to say evidence is "clear" in fields as young as these. This is exactly why we *should* be speaking on this topic: to counter people like

Sean T at RCP

SeanTrende

I've been thinking about this really good @zeynep piece and . . . philosophy of science. 1/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent-we-talking-more-about-airborne-transmission/614737/ There's an argument in philo

snav (escarpment)

qorprate

the Western Standard Model of mind/psyche is really bad, constrained by demands for scientific (read: institutional) validation if you think about mind, self, emotion, etc as a vague space to

FRANCIS AARON

FrancisAaronUK

There’s a certain type of person who invokes “experts” as if they were some sort of monolithic priesthood. This is generally someone without the cognitive capacity to question received dogma;

Sayyid Ali

Aal_e_Imran

[Thread - A Continuation] Theological presuppositions & shortcomings of anachronistic scientific interpretations: The trend alluded to in the previous thread shows that there is a belief that Islamic textual sources

Maryland Man Son

fearwig

so like, they have people from february they can test to see if they still show antibodies right? are we not hearing about that because the answer is "they're all

Flavio Toxvaerd

toxvaerd1

It now appears that infection numbers are worse than the “worst case scenario”. What does that mean and does this indicate a failure of the policies that the government has

Hokie Matthew

hokiesmash_ASD

We need a national infrastructure jobs program now We need a coordinated national effort to remediate the pandemic The next President will need to unite the country behind those two

Caleb Watney

calebwatney

I don't think people have quite internalized *how* the US became the global leader in science and technology. It's partially a story of massive global talent migration. And it's important

Dr. Caroline Bartman

Caroline_Bartma

These are my top 10 sci fi books! @RMedzhitov •Grass, Sheri Tepper•The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell•The Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge•Stories of your life and others, Ted Chiang•Never let

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