Some elementary schools have a weekly dental hygiene thing. The kids are tested for having brushed their teeth in the morning and get points according...
Hey that may actually be predictive, . I suppose ethical concerns might be raised (in particular) if it would all be on public record. I'm guessing su...
Amanda Marcotte has read Mollie Hemingway's new book. :) Republicans retool their conspiracy theory for the mainstream (Oct 21, 2021) I expect it to b...
Tu quoque, ? :roll: Sorry, it's not the case that "anything goes". Do get vaccinated. :up: :smile: , cognitive biases and such — they come to the fore...
@"Isaac", seems clear enough that you're coming in from a rather ideological angle (no, can't just shut down media :smile:). Pharma, for one, receives...
Nor for the public bad either, presumably? I suppose, in capitalism, supply and demand type mechanisms + profit-maximization drive what corporations d...
QAnon Figure Ron Watkins Announces Plans to Run for Congress in Arizona (Oct 14, 2021) Ron Watkins, who many speculate might be QAnon, eyes congressio...
What the ..., ? We were just chatting about regular fellows becoming infected with virulent pseudo-information, and sure enough, a bunch of influentia...
What's going on in the Southern US? Southlake school leader tells teachers to balance Holocaust books with 'opposing' views (Oct 14, 2021) Didn't some...
Except, , not all "mainstream media" reports are bullshit and pseudo-information. Inflated or blanket distrust can be wacky just the same. Perhaps eve...
Hannah Arendt - Disinformation and Democracy (Aug 6, 2020) • 12 prominent people opposed to vaccines are responsible for two-thirds of anti-vaccine co...
The more of them the better, giving more weight, and history, context, ability to spot apparent anomalies/outliers, overview. I just don't think every...
I've come across similar stories. It's not unique. With online filtering, raging discussions about censoring versus free speech, all that, sites like ...
That's not quite accurate. Canada: Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) (modeled after a compensation scheme available in Quebec since the late 1980s...
:meh: • Half of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy (Mar 29, 2019) • Millions of Evange...
Trust in Media and Elected Officials Near Record Lows in Gallup Poll (Oct 8, 2021) Well, if rejecting "mainstream media" means turning to garbage, the...
, have you bothered checking historical (textbook) case studies? It's not like someone just came up with outbreak protocols last year. There's precede...
Hmm... , if someone were to say "you must severely spank your kids every day, or they'll turn into immoral losers, and, besides, they probably did som...
, the 10 commandments in the Bible may be the best known example (in the West). Most people can evaluate those. I suppose, in a way, the Adam + Eve + ...
Nah, not 1 beforehand. Kids are an example of where an assessment has led to caution, hence ineligible (as of typing). Whatever factors continue to be...
A quick read regarding "the distance" between science/mathematics and the general public, exemplified with the pandemic: What we've got here is failur...
, The Sun already ran an article about that, posted here on the forum. As per this old comment, I'd watch out for the slant they put on their ("impart...
‘The virus is painfully real’: vaccine hesitant people are dying – and their loved ones want the world to listen (Sep 14, 2021) ? to listen What role,...
White terror: Millions of Americans say they'd support violence to restore Trump to power (Oct 1, 2021) Weird. Incidentally scrolled by the other day:...
You'd most likely lose out. ;) How about taking a look at what actually takes place, then? • Anatomy of our battle against COVID-19 (Jun 2, 2021) And ...
, you offered roughly nothing, and called my comment shallow rhetoric? :D I've already mentioned that the evidence is the ground authority. And we'd b...
What about those killed by the virus ? and those saved by the vaccine? Did you take those into account? One could argue that withholding an effective ...
Gotta' wonder how many out there got red ears. • Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites (The W...
Bonus. Maybe even a bit of health gain in some cases. (y) • Air pollution and COVID-19 (Dec 2020) • How Covid gave the world a lesson in tackling air ...
, the joy of watching your responses, being so anti-vax an'all. ;) By the way, I typically argue for free speech, and the usual suppression accusation...
YouTube to remove misinformation videos about all vaccines (Sep 29, 2021) Elsewhere, someone posted a flurry of anti-whatever stuff, including this sa...
Anyone know of a specific (medical/biological) term for asymptomatic pathogen ? factories? (infectees that aren't harmed, or are insignificantly or ve...
This is now making the rounds again, being propagated and re-posted who knows where: Nearly 50k Medicare patients died soon after getting COVID shot: ...
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