#Scepticism

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Vg and hopeful news about a vaccine.> The public is pretty pro-vaccine (4/5 people would want to take it) but this has fallen a few points in most countries. >

Christabel Cooper

ChristabelCoops

Seeing a lot of this "we all make mistakes" argument to justify continuing to promulgate Covid-scepticism.But there's a huge difference between the sceptics and mainstream scientists. It's called the Scientific

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Only 9% think rules are too strict in current conditions; yet 7% believe the entire Covid pandemic is "invented". Scarcity of lockdown sceptics who are not conspiracists & cranks (since

Naomi Beecroft

BeecroftNaomi

I can't help but think that the devastation the Tories have wrought over the last decade, and how much of the last year has been marred by corruption and scandal,

Claire Fox

Fox_Claire

This week's Inside The Lords is a bit bad tempered - not just because of limited time to speak, but because it feels like the whole process of parliamentary scrutiny

Martin Reid

martin_g_reid

Went full nerd and compiled a spreadsheet of all gin blog/ginfluencer/communicator accounts across Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. Some very startling and obvious accounts buying followers and by the looks of

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

There is a significant difficulty for Lockdown Sceptics in conflating that cause with Brexit (because public views on the two topics are much less linked than elite commentariat views are)https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/132301501

Stephen Bush

stephenkb

This is not true. The vaccine uptake gap in the UK (which holds for *some*, but not all BAME groups) is not about a history of experimentation. Quite the reverse,

Ranil Dissanayake

scepticalranil

7 years ago I gave a training on commissioning, interpreting and using evidence, frustrated that colleagues were using true-but-bullshit killer facts rather than serious research. Aim: to be comfortable asking

Gray Connolly

GrayConnolly

Trump's approval is ~44% (his approval rating on election day 2016 was 36%). He also has record fund-raising. But the 'polls' show Biden ahead...and Biden will be running on a

Peter Geoghegan

PeterKGeoghegan

British government's dithering, continually delayed response to Covid cannot be divorced from countless newspaper columns and broadcast debates pushing 'lockdown sceptic' positions and the 'Swedish model'. Again, idea th

Cennydd

Cennydd

Some lessons I learned from running five days of remote workshops…1. Even more breaks than you think you need. Ten minutes every hour. Gaps between days, too. I couldn’t stomach

Scott McLachlan

Dr_ScottMc

there's a whole world of difference between "busy because we are overrun with covid patients", which is the narrative they are trying to sell, and "busy because more than 40%

David Paxton

DavidDPaxton

This thread is doing the rounds. Ok. Guy got something wrong. But out of curiosity I want to look at how his views had developed. So I searched ‘Vaccine’.https://twitter.com/mdbuckley/status/1237426209920880641 Ah.

David Bleak

Captain_Vad

Can you remember when the BBC could never find a single Corbyn supporter to interview on the street? Can you remember how they never panned the camera out when showing

Emma Szh

EmmaSzh

A crime is reported in a local facebook seller's group: A Thread [1/12] 2/12 "An Eschatology of Violence" 3/12 "The Self as Other" 4/12 "On Vigilantism" 5/12 "Deploying Humour in

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