#Misleading

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

Hello @BBOWT, I have some questions to ask about your extraordinary shocking support for the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, one of the biggest and most damaging infrastructure schemes proposed in the UK.

Maya Forstater

MForstater

There is a lot of "manufacturing of consent" in @YouGov 's presentation of the data on their recent survey. First there is the title "trangender rights" The whole point is

eigenrobot

eigenrobot

figured something outprobablyvideo actually is bad for understanding things that have happened more often than not biology textbooks are interesting because they're often lovingly illustrated with blown out drawings in

Alec MacGillis

AlecMacGillis

This is a really good and important @dwallacewells piece on the deeply counterproductive lack of nuance and candor in a lot of the public-health messaging on coronavirus:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/american-public-health-experts

Caleb Hull

CalebJHull

Guys, I beg you to please understand data before you share it. The “only 6%” narrative being pushed to downplay coronavirus is EXTREMELY misleading.https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/false-claim-shared-by-president-trump-that-only-6

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

As Orwell understood, waging war against imaginary enemies serves to entrench abritrary power, not to challenge it. If @BBradley_Mans shares Orwell's concerns about diversity of thought, tolerance of dissent &

Usha Lee McFarling

ushamcfarling

Throughout the pandemic, @UCSF has been showing the world how to get things done. (Contrast this testing program with other misleading studies--I'm looking at you @Stanford.) Also, I could not

Andries du Toit 🇿🇦

abdutoit

The racialisation of the #Covid19 debate is deflecting attention away from the genuinely alarming extent to which the current implementation of #lockdown is becoming counterproductive and damaging. 1/ Genuine concerns

UARK Broke Things

UARKBrokeThings

Goooood morning Fayettenaaaaam!I hope everyone had a rona-free weekend. We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming of outlining all the problems of UARK and shitposting.Thanks for tuning in.

Caroline Morganti

ctmorganti

This tweet/replies below encapsulate the nightmare of Twitter, esp now. Spread of misleading info that confirms existing biases, to the point of suggesting a conspiracy.Just bc Republicans are incalculably worse

Ulrich Speck

ulrichspeck

Two interesting bits here. Merkel telling Macron that she is fed up. https://twitter.com/StevenErlanger/status/1198164037621682178 And: "There are also concerns among allies that Mr. Macron is considering a speech about creating a

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra

magarmtis

The @nytimes piece on faculty reluctance to return to campus is misleading and magnifies an already existing problem in the conversation. 1/x What is being offered by universities seeking to

Reuben Mahaffy ⚗️

reubenmahaffy

I don't even know where to begin here...1. I DON'T expect that a minister will necessarily have a background in their portfolio, and I know that the experience of a

The U.S. Commission of Dark Arts 🌚

jg_bollard

So the Eisenhower Memorial gets dedicated tomorrow. I see coverage of the dedication memory-holing how unhinged the competition happened, but we shouldn't because it had warning signs of the world

chrispydog

chrispydog

Attenborough makes a number of highly misleading statements in the first few minutes of "A life", and implants a trope that humans and their technology is at fault. It's irksome

Bram Büscher

brambuscher

This new report from @nature_org is so wrong on SO many levels: logically, morally, economically, politically, ecologically, etc. So sad that @nature_org is willfully and deliberately speeding up the destruction