#SCIENCE

"why do you care about evolution so much"....I am asked this frequently about research I do surrounding the intersections of science and society. Evolution is important, I answer, but this
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Welp, another new (bad) HCQ/azithro paper, this one controverting the dumb original Gautret/Raoult paper.Can we at least stop saying that HCQ is "best available evidence" now that we have conflicting
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Press release from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy claims science + tech highlights of Trump's first term include "ending the covid-19 pandemic" and "taking action to
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The depressing thing for anyone interested in rigorous science and evidence these days is that you are constantly cast as a pessimist who is holding up progress. The opposite is
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Looking at corona virus numbers, you do have to wonder if the science was right. Today UK had around the same new cases as Germany, France, Spain & Italy added
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I'm completely speechless. She wrote that we should stop glorifying the working class on the SAME DAY that she complained that she's struggling without a housekeeper. Like, I didn't have
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I want to clear something up after another nutrition professional suggested I shouldn't mix my appearance with my science (not a weight comment)A) I dress like this because it brings
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This comes back to my point about how impoverished K-12 and university education is about the *social* epistemology of science. We teach students it's about the labs, but the strength
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[THREAD] New at the store: signed editions of Becoming Alien, by @dodgyboffin. Sara sent me a copy of this book and I just fell in love with it. I’ve read
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..as may every PCR -based test used for any pathogen. Ever. This isn't news, it just (clearly) hasn't been explained to the public (& some media) before. Obviously top shelf
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Thread: We got to discuss the very thought-provoking "Grand Inquisitor" chapter from "The Brothers Karamazov" in my reading group of four last week and had a rather heated debate about
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For the first time, Nature family journals set their open access price, and it is around £9000. No, that's not a typo. Science is increasingly just a capitalist endeavour, where
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"Believe in science", "science is true": Think of all the violence & oppression which have been justified by science throughout history. I am wary of any institution which demands faith
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Profiling women at Oxford Uni contributing great science to tackle the COVID pandemic.#1: Ane Ogbe -post doctoral scientist. Developing proliferation assays against SARS-CoV2 antigens-key to understanding T cell memory and
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In response to something @AllanGSteele said:The Cult of Science!™Some time ago God died...(meaning that the move to rationality killed the ability to attribute meaning to an external source)however, we got
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People “defend Darwin” as if it’s a neutral “purely scientific” science discovered by divine revelation when Darwin went “hm what if I applied Malthus to the Entirety of Being?”— &
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