#Skepticism

If you mentioned this obvious possibility last week when the news broke, the typical band of hysterics reflexively screamed that you were an apologist for "white supremacists" or whatever. So
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Der Spiegel, citing German intelligence, says Xi and Tedros talked on Jan 21. They report that Xi asked Tedros to hold back info on human-to-human transmission and delay pandemic warning.
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Of course we don't know if she indeed is a Christian nationalist or not, but don't just act like conservative Christians haven't been baptized in the myth of a Christian
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It isn't lost on me at all when white ppl listen to me about racism more than they listen to ppl actually affected by racismIf you listen to a white
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My actual vaccine stance: I will take it 2022/23 when clinical trials are fully finished. As a young healthy person who has a level of immunity from having the virus
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One of the things that has really smacked me in the face with this virus is how incredibly dumb super-smart people can be. I sometimes come across virus truthers who
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Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) spoke some much-needed sense to @billmaher Friday. Here he urges people to avoid blind acceptance of US intel claims on Russiagate: On Bill Maher's show, Olive Stone
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Essence of journalism is skepticism, & it should be applied rigorously to govt depts spending taxpayer money. Will NZ journalists do their job on the recently released climate report? Flaws
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Please proceed with caution when it comes to swallowing Gouws' advocation that Malema is sending himself hate-filled messages. Here's why:https://twitter.com/RenaldoGouws/status/1331624510932611072 The data in TrueCaller is crowd-so
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Oh, I see The Root's Michael Harriot gave a very small shout out to Sarah Braasch and something to do with bodily excretions of goat's milk this week? Swamptw@t caused
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An interview is not a game of skill, except insofar as your skills may (may!) be what got you in the door.It's psychologically healthier and arguably more realistic to treat
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I guess the bots didn’t like my early skepticism on hydroxycloroquine & azithromycin.https://twitter.com/sunny_in_MN/status/1244270262872309763 https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status/1247701104940527616?s=20 Another on the counter indications o
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There's a lot going on in this story on the absolute clusterfuck known as @theintercept, but the biggest takeaway to me is that as much of a money-sink, train-wreck as
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A staffer at the Ontario Legislature said 7 months ago that C19 was over but that the real fight was to save gov't as an institution. I didn't fully comprehend
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Democrats say they're the party of science, but they've repeatedly ignored the science on Covid. They can't expect to be taken seriously when Biden's chief medical advisor says fully vaccinated
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Science journalism, in practice, covering a new study. 1. Read study.2. Contact study authors.3. Spend forever finding the just-right sources who can speak with authority&expertise on the study&have no association
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