#Skepticism

Roshan Kishore

Roshanjnu

1/n: A (pessimistic) thread on political economy of the Supreme Court staying the 3 farm laws: On the face of it, the court had indicted the govt for not doing

Jennifer Raub

jenneraub

An ad agency in SF is excitedly sharing the news that they were awarded a $40 million account to "educate the public" on the benefits of taking the covid-19 vaccine.

Nikhil Pal Singh

nikhil_palsingh

Very provisional thoughts on the day (indebted to some of you), if you have the patience to read something longer from me. I said this back in summer after watching

Ana Lorena Fabrega

anafabrega11

I’d argue that the most important jobs of the future will require us to think differently—to be creative, to think outside the box, and develop ideas others haven’t.We know schools

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

There's a very interesting phenomena I've noticed with socialists roughly my age, and in particular cis men, where many of us went through a reactionary phase between like 2015-2017, and

D. S. Nelson

process_x

You shouldn't seek to prove your hypotheses right. *If you're a scientist, you should only seek to prove them wrong.* This is widely accepted & has been naturalized long enough

Phil Plait

BadAstronomer

A blip of light between two stars may finally be the planet we've been looking for all these years.Or it may just be a blip of light.https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/have-astronomers-finally-found-a-planet-around-alpha-centauri-maaaaaaaaay

Ludger Wess

LudgerWess

It always strikes me as absurd to see non-biologists writing in a mock-up scientific style utter nonsense about heredity and plant breeding. Inducing radiation damage in thousands of genes is

Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن

EveKeneinan

What doxastic involuntarists (DIs) trade on is a distinction between an immediate act & complex action. Now, ACTS are the province of the WILL, and believing is an ACT. That

Berna Devezer

zerdeve

This preprint provides an important critical evaluation of metascientific approaches to replications and how the underlying motives differ from other approaches to across multiple fields. Should be a key reading

Luke Farnish

LukeFarnish

I've seen quite a few people discussing the new paper by Jabbour et al. in PNAS. As this is twitter and I have something of a vested interest in the

Gretchen Snoeyenbos Newman, MD

DrSnowInBus

Thoughts after my first block as an academic ID attending.A 1. People who say attending is harder than residency and fellowship do not accurately recall how hard residency and

Steve App

StephenApp

It's late January, which means many of you are preparing for the peak of yield season, with virtual open houses and student panels. As you plan your talking points, it's

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Avatar: The Last Airbender characters as the zodiac a thread- Aries: Zuko- impulsive, driven, aggressive, and governed by obsession. Strong sense of self. Tries to be good. Also Aries: Zhao-

The Wealth Index 📈

thewealthindex

The Fool's Game of Market TimingYou will often here people say that “time in the market, beats timing the market," but why?Does it not make more logical sense to buy

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

CBO forecasts are out.Some early reports have suggested the CBO forecast revisions are cause for optimism. Not so fast!My key takeaway: Forecasts have been upgraded from a *catastrophically* slow recovery

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