#SCIENCE

Educators and language-in-classroom thread: When encouraging students to counter each other and/or learning to have a healthy academic debate, what are the words that you use? (1/n) Words like "attack",
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Andrew Robb, a former federal Liberal minister, is pushing for drugs such as MDMA and psilocybin — found in magic mushrooms — to be a treatment option for mental health.It's
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Next time someone asks you to put on your mask because the science says so, tell them first grade science taught us the fundamental rule of life: we breath O2
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SCIENCE & RELIGIONallow me to paint a picture. they're like two sides of a coin. Heads or Tails. We think they're so opposite but in essence, they're not. Conventionally a
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This is a good article, highlighting the failures of public information promulgated around COVID, though little that folks on here haven't widely discussed. I want to add a point though.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronav
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Recently, I and others wrote a response to a paper on a conservation conflict centered on farmer perceptions of livestock predation by scavenging birds. In a few tweets, I’d like
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Everybody loves science, until they have to consider its impact in different groups.Kind of like everyone loves space, until we have to talk about safety, impact, and all that other
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Oppression created by experts in their narrow fields has succeeded not in "flattening the curve" but in smearing feces across the faces of the American working class.They are saving the
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THE LEFT SHOULD READ MORE ESOTERIC AND OCCULT THEORY. THE LEFT SHOULD BE BETTER EDUCATED IN SCIENCE AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY THAN ANYBODY ELSE. THE LEFT NEEDS TO SUPPORT
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The proper response to COVID isn't determined by science; it's a public health policy issue.Science and data can tell us who is at risk and the magnitude of the risk.
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It’s no secret - the scientific adviser to the Italian health minister said it to @Telegraph more than a week ago: “The way we come deaths in our country is
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“science should be devoid of politics and ideology “ is rearing its ugly head again on my French and English speaking TL. As we scientists are human, would you not
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Some folks think "Objective reality exists" is a good counterargument to "Science is socially constructed". It's not and here's why ... The more I argue with folks about how "science
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Since April, UKRI with help from @IpsosMORI has monitored public sentiment toward science and scientists. Today we’re releasing the findings, as we mark 20 years since the seminal House of
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"The case in point is Ebola in West Africa in 2014. Epidemiological models, which accurately charted the early, exponential growth phase of the epidemic, failed to predict its rapid decline."
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On Friday (Sept 18), #Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer told us that Case counts in Canada indicate “accelerated epidemic growth”. Is this true or is it ye olde #Coronaphobia? Let’s
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