#SCIENTISTS

"Scientists – like journalists – should follow evidence until it is disproved, even when it leads into uncomfortable terrain. Anything else is a betrayal of their creed." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9155487/IAN-BI
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Today the UK did something that is being heralded as historic: they were the first in the world to approve a COVID-19 vaccine for use in their country. What does
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My first thread: the promise by @POTUS re: #vaccines reminds me that this month marks 20 years since the death of my great uncle, Joseph Melnick, below (dead center) among
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Phenomenon “Sun rises in the morning from the East.”Theory 1 “The Sun rises because the Sun revolves around the Earth. It’s obvious.”Theory 1 “The Earth revolves around the Sun. The
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Dear Lord everyone. I need you to help me spread this message. People are spreading false information about the number of COVID deaths and Americans are believing it. Thread... Hospitals
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Since inquiring minds want to know, I’m inspired to offer a tweetorial on how statisticians can interpret the weather. 1/nhttps://twitter.com/daniela_witten/status/1343245828945833988 Let’s say the news reports that there is a 30%
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This is a *HEALTH WARNING* about Vitamin Davis. (And COVID, pre-prints, and Vitamin D)/ Thread https://twitter.com/daviddavismp/status/1360647462197878791 What does this study actually show?Well, as many have pointed out, it
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A quick thread on MRAs / Incels . I genuinely thought it was a few thousand young guys pretty much dividing their time equally between Reddit, games consoles and wanking
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Many questions from WHO press conference on origins of pandemic, especially related to level of investigation at labs. Did they just ask questions + accept answers? Any in-depth scrutiny of
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Another article on the impacts of the pandemic on academic mothers. https://bit.ly/2ZgjW6T  Recognition is good, action is better. I asked a 11K member group of 'Academic Mamas' how their institutions
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I think the New Testament in the Christian Bible was a fraud.A Roman emperor and some people sat down to rewrite things that had happened wayyyyy before to get political
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1/There will be no update today. At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech. They were serving a warrant on
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THAT paper is what happens when you don't recognize that gender bias is systemic and structural in academic STEM LOOK: I have remained SANE in academic STEM b/c of my
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Follow the money:"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and thus the Gates family and Warren Buffett are the main source of income for the WHO through direct and indirect channels"https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/the-gates-
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Atlanta removing the sign is a great first step. However they are firm that they won't be changing their name from @Braves & they're still "reviewing" whether or not to
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America, the government isn't giving you money/tests/resources. It probably isn't even right to say you're "receiving" it. You're accessing your own funds &/or getting what you already paid for. It's
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