#Denialists

I find the (fairly large) subset of Twitter that seems allergic to any sort of *good* COVID-19 news fascinating (what I would call COVID denialists are something else entirely). Sometimes

The National Cabinet concept is full of risks (more later), but there are two things that have made it a vehicle for relatively good governance during this period. One, is

Mary Wombat 🐝

I think the reason I'm struggling to cope mentally with the current situation is that my normal way of dealing with anxiety is to map out a solution, even if

Bad China Takes

The people who are best qualified to speak on these issues are those--the Uyghur, Kazakh, Hui, and even occasional Han--who have been victims of the camps and abuse faced therein.

Watching denialist trolls deliberately target and detail Xinjiang experts, academics and those Uyghurs brave enough to speak out on here is appalling. But my sense remains that the real enemy

The president told the states it was up to them to handle the pandemic and is now diverting orders of needed medical equipment to the states to a national stockpile

Anosognosiogenesis

Suppose 1 out of 1,000 people is into any given niche thing. It seems pretty rare, right?In the US, that'd mean 328,000 people are into it.Across the world, 7,800,000 people

“Hence she provoked the man to kick her” The Indian lady was kicked in the chest cuz she had a “bochap attitude” “Something must have triggered this so-called assailant” this

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Imagine murder hornets were spreading across the U.S.Imagine murder hornets had stung several million of people.Imagine a million murder hornet victims had been hospitalized.Imagine 123,000 Americans had died of murder

Amanda Marcotte

200,000 people have died. The virus is still spreading. Over 13 million are unemployed. But Trump and McConnell are too concerned with crushing democracy to give a crap about Americans.

Isaac Asimov's essay "The Relativity of Wrong" explains an important fact about Flat Earthers, evolution denialists and other anti-science denialist movements:they're *very nearly* right.A flat Earth would have curvature of

Scientists outraged by Peter Daszak leading enquiry into possible #Covid19 lab leak https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/19538 Lead investigator considered one of the most conflicted & unreliable voices on the origins of the pand

Is the resistance to the science of reading an example of science denialism? The tortuous reasoning in this blog entry by @plthomasEdD illustrates the lengths to which some progressive educators

Katherine Cross

As many parts of the world settle into the COVID winter of our discontent, it's worth thinking critically about public health messaging. As I've said for months, despair-based messaging (of

Tobias Schneider

Over the years, 100s and 1000s of survivors, responders, medical doctors, local and int journalists, military defectors and investigators have witnessed and testified to the impact of these attacks. Samples,

John Scott-Railton

Amazon has a poisonous quackery problem. Time to call it out. #1 "Apricot kernel powder" is anti-cancer quackery.It is converted by your body into... CYANIDE. Make a smoothie & get