#Scepticism

Nelson Jones

Heresy_Corner

So finally the government is recommending, and will soon mandate, masks in shops. Don’t underestimate the amount of institutional opposition that has had to be overcome to get this far.

Andy Brown

JournoAndy

THREAD - About 1wk ago, I wrote an article about Christian Coleman that inaccurately claimed ‘it had been established’ that Coleman had been tested between 30 & 40 times per

Shahin-ur Rahman

ShahinRahmanUK

[Thread]What makes a hadith authentic? The basics of #HadithLiteracy Five criteria must be met for a hadith to be classed as authentic.1. Morally upright narrators2. Precision in transmission3. Connected chain4.

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Basically the Government through @katebingham acted like a venture capital fund, funding many vaccine candidates, expensively, across different types of tech, with companies from different countries (at time of some

Le Canard Noir

lecanardnoir

1/ The trend in organised scepticism now is to be "kind and compassionate". Indeed the UK Skeptic magazine changed its strap-line from "Pursuing Truth though Reason and Evidence since 1987"

A Xmas Douglas

alexxdouglas

In the review mentioned here, Warburton states that Pluckrose and Lindsay "have done their homework, and can’t fairly be accused of a superficial understanding of the thinkers they engage with".

Matt Chorley

MattChorley

Mood among Tory MPs is seriously bad. Even those who think this is the right thing to do now are dismayed that it’s come to this.“Shambolic. Rudderless ramblings. constituents

Matthew Young

constantAmateur

SoupX, our method to detect and correct ambient RNA contamination in droplet based single cell sequencing, has been published (https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/9/12/giaa151), code here (http://github.com/constantAmateur/SoupX/).

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Weekly Covid attitudes memo, no 40.- Growing concern overNHS pressures, confidence rising in vaccine rollout. .- Self-reported compliance is up, but age-gap reopening- British public welcomedBiden’s inauguration, mainly due to

Darren Naish

TetZoo

This #LochNessMonster image is doing the rounds on social media. It's a fabulous painting from legendary Italian artist Gino D'Achille and (among other works) appeared in Daniel Farson's 1975 book

Centre for Social Injustice

Punishthepoor

An excellent Australian report from 2010. How terrifying that in the UK and many other countries we are rapidly losing ground to the pervasive misogynistic myths the report highlights, which

Alex Deane

ajcdeane

This is the 17th instalment of #deanehistory.Jan Masaryk was the son of the founding President of Czechoslovakia.Coincidentally, his civil service career really took off after his dad took office. He

Will Moy

puzzlesthewill

Democracy is fragile and we should be angry at people who are careless of it - people who distort facts, encourage conspiracy theories, or rely on bluster and bullshit when

Michael Etienne

Metienne12

The Macpherson Inquiry conclusions about institutional racism most noted in the Metropolitan Police but, and often missed, other institutions as well, was a defining moment in the history of British

Omair Ahmad

OmairTAhmad

1. I have had an evolving view of Kejriwal.My initial response to him was scepticism. This was beacuse of the Jan Lokpal Bill: http://nagarikmancha.org/images/1244-Documents-Jan%20Lokpal%20Bill.pdfThis envisaged the creation of an authority

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Different type of vaccine being developed at Scottish factory of a French company - an “inactivated whole virus” - UK task force secured 60m dose preorder in July for €470m

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.