#Denial

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

I get the need for hope. But I fear we’ll look back & wonder wtf was going on. Hospital admissions are higher than April. *AND RISING* The NHS is on

AQ

Evollaqi

I suspect that the three most important components of freedom are as follows:1. Equality under the law2. No non-consensual interference with an individual's person, property, and agreements except via due

I Am Disabled.

thespinsterymc

Three things:1. Holocaust/Shoah denial and Hitler apologia is violent and genocidal, regardless of who you are. Yes—it’s genocidal even if the Hitler/Nazi apologist is Black. 2. The Holocaust is every

Colin Wright

SwipeWright

The false notion that "sex is a spectrum" is foundational to the widespread sex denialism we are currently experiencing in our society. In this essay I outline the science of

Una Mullally

UnaMullally

Denial, panic, resilience. Welcome to the crisis of January 2021, and the decisions and actions that got us here.https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/una-mullally-we-are-good-at-denial-and-now-must-pay-the-price-1.4449168 Related to today'

Infectious Diseases

InfectiousDz

Denial has always been a part of any epidemic. Pathogens, invisible and wiggling into vulnerabilities and fault lines in society, slip by cloaked by denial. The philosopher Foucault said of

Tom Joseph

TomJChicago

1 There are too many variables to choreograph a Trump exit/escape plan. More cracks in Trump-land are appearing w/ media reports that he may not be trying to win in

Giorgio Gilestro

giorgiogilestro

Ricalca anche la strategia dei negazionisti del climate change. In quel caso gli argomenti retorici erano classificati in cinque categorie:1. Conspiracy theories 2. Fake experts3. Impossible expectations4. Mirepresentations and logical

Amy Westervelt

amywestervelt

Been working on a series about this: to understand why climate science denial was effective, you have to understand how much effort & $ the industry put into instilling the

Tim Taylor #MantleoftheExpert #exploremore

imagineinquiry

What's most damaging for healthy debate is when an argument is framed using aggressive or derogatory language. Calling someone who questions the efficacy of SSP a 'denialist' or 'smoking them

T. R. Okuna

XivTroy

It is not easy. It's hard. But every man will experience it. A woman will break your heart. You'll be alone in the dead of the night, listening to two

Jose-Luis Jimenez

jljcolorado

It took 40 years to admit TB was airborne. It was thought to be droplet / fomite. Because of ease of infection in close proximity, and cases of shared air

TessM

Tess__M

Why are conservatives so angry? 1/3Per George Lakoff in Don't Think of an Elephant -- "And if you are an unhappy, unfulfilled person yourself, you are not going to want

Samantha Power

SamanthaJPower

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the largest massacre in Europe since WWII. In 1995, Bosnian Serb forces murdered more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in #Srebrenica. If not for #covid,

Ash

MixedClassicist

Have you seen the awful article published last week, by an Oxbridge senior lecturer in classics, which argues that racism doesn't exist in the discipline and that attempts to decolonise

The Public Archive

public_archive

Academics could gain a certain clarity about themselves if they acknowledged that being an academic is a job, not a mission, and that being an intellectual is merely a form

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