#Pseudoscience

Donald Welsh

DonaldWelsh16

There is a predictable look to each new C19 scare tactic. The same academics, under the guise of pseudoscience, beat the panic drum, claiming the next phase is terrifying and

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pinbarlas

Attending now https://twitter.com/ExeterDecol/status/1280836068137414656 "It's only in hindsight that we call pseudoscience, 'pseudoscience'. At the time, it's just science." - Angela Saini (any quotes in this thr

(Cyriac) Abby Philips

drabbyphilips

I was invited to comment on a #preprint A Consensus driven statement for #Ayurvedic Nomenclature of Various #liver diseases (Yakrit roga) by Panda et al.@CCRAS_MoAYUSH @moayush @AIIA_NDelhi Please allow me

Yashar Ali 🐘

yashar

1. Please remember as you're praising the audio of Tom Cruise yelling at crew members who don't follow Covid restrictions that he's the chief enabler of a criminal organization that

Kevin Connor

KevinTConnor

This is all the more disappointing because Discovery execs hear these criticisms (and get pitched legit science-based shows) every year & they are ignored. They always say something like "we

Chrissy Stroop

C_Stroop

Found out yesterday that a relative who is a physician’s assistant and an old family friend who is literally a doctor (and a specialist to boot) are mask refusing COVID

Michael Shellenberger

ShellenbergerMD

This is racist pseudosciencehttps://twitter.com/CJR/status/1273011468728807424 The word "ethnic" means "relating to a population subgroup... with a common national or cultural tradition"The notion that the people we call

Adam Hamdy

adamhamdy

1. THE CATI love a good conspiracy theory. As a thriller writer, a compelling conspiracy is pure gold. I started keeping an eye on conspiracy websites more than a decade

Dan Gehrke

Lights2TheWorld

1/ Colorado is being led by cultists. I know some bristle at that, but listening to @GovofCO and Dr. Herlihy leaves no doubt in my mind. Even though coronavirus is

Cathryn Townsend, PhD.

CathrynTownsend

Regret to inform you that the race science psychologists are at it again, using Richard Lynn's rubbish national IQ dataset to speculate about the evolution of global differences in cognitive

Devin Brennan

devo_22

I'm not typically one to post something like this and I'm not usually this sappy. I doubt many will read this, but it seemed more appropriate at the culmination of

Shannon Des Roches Rosa

shannonrosa

When autism awareness is deployed as a weapon—especially without autism understanding or acceptance—it enables ignorant crusades like anti-vaxxer autism martyr parent pity parties, instead of emphasizing how to get autistic

Michael "Mike" Albert, MD

MichaelAlbertMD

1/ This is why I get so frustrated with the LC community and its talking heads. Declarative statements, lacking nuance, which amounts to pseudoscience (i.e., shreds of truth wrapped up

Brenda Yang

brendawyang

Our students come to us with deep, damaging beliefs about intelligence & IQ.I *really* wanted to teach students about intelligence last fall, but I found myself unprepared. After DAYS learning,

Gregg Gonsalves

gregggonsalves

I beg reporters @NYTimes & @washingtonpost to ask themselves and their sources before quoting them: will this help us end the #COVID19 pandemic? Because the tit-for-tat bullshit I am seeing

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

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