#SCIENCE

German president Steinmeier in TV address to the nation:"No, this pandemic is not a war. Nations do not stand against nations, nor soldiers against soldiers. Rather it is a test
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I may have misstated the epistemic problem. It's not important to know who's posing as a scientist. It's important to know who isn't. This may be a more tractable approach.There
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I know, I know, I'm grumpy about everything, but this bugs me, this notion that science dictates what we must do about climate change, and if you just accept science,
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That behaviour is cringeworthy, but let's look at why the pattern exists. It must certainly be a compounded issue arising due to:1. Continuously subdued scientific temper of the vedic/indic studies2.
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if there is one thing that galls me, it's the self righteous sanctimony of partisan weather vane "experts" like @KrutikaKuppalli making appeals to their own authority and trying to shame
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ATOMIC IGNORANCE: Living with a sciency mate who studied physics, I have direct access to intel. Distraught about the pandemic of willful ignorance, I asked him to break it down
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One of the things I see people perpetually getting wrong about the aims of various genre categories: science fiction, whatever it’s pretensions, does not do well at predicting the future.
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Hi everyone , I’m a future science teacher and brand new to Twitter! Could anyone please suggest good accounts to follow for teaching/science info, facts or resources?#teacher #teachertraining #scitt #pgce
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Things that depress me, a thread. I am a sociologist of science and I teach and research about scicomm (among other things.) I justify what I do because I believe
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But, - Australia already has an outsized impact on *increasing* global emissions. This could stop.- Australia could also export clean energy and power (undersea cables) - Australia could influence other
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Guys this is really fucking important.@trussliz has said she is considering overriding doctors and experts to ban trans healthcare for under 18sThis is obviously anti-science and immoral, but make no
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EXCLUSIVE: Months ago, scientists offered a plan to use coronavirus survivors’ blood to make an upper-arm shot that could inoculate people for months, until a vaccine exists. But HHS officials
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Did you know: The first “Britons” (British) were black people. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/first-modern-britons-dark-black-skin-cheddar-man-dna-analysis-reveals
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Dan is basically right here. It’s not that SAGE are going against the evidence, it’s that there isn’t any evidence to follow most of the time. 1/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8850815/DAN-HODGES-follow-science-scientists-h
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feel like starting a thread of all the pieces i’ve read about the additional effects of covid-19 over the pneumonia, cos it’s neverendinghttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915912030489X link from this thread https://twitter.com/sci
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BLUF:Putin employs useful idiots to carry out his agenda of discrediting democratic states and sowing chaos throughout the free world via a robust disinfo and misinfo campaign. Thread:1/3https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/science/putin-russia-disinfo
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