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:up: Ongoing science/medicine has given us marvels, only to be thrown out by some kooky thinking. :roll:
October 23, 2021 at 13:38
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...
October 23, 2021 at 13:17
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...
October 23, 2021 at 12:48
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature (Oct 19, 2021)
October 22, 2021 at 04:21
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...
October 22, 2021 at 02:43
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...
October 21, 2021 at 13:36
Right, ideology. Select opinions. Means to an ideological end.
October 21, 2021 at 03:40
@"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...
October 20, 2021 at 18:13
Nor for the public bad either, presumably? I suppose, in capitalism, supply and demand type mechanisms + profit-maximization drive what corporations d...
October 17, 2021 at 17:26
Or neither, as seemed to have been the case with the example patient mentioned earlier? :gasp:
October 15, 2021 at 18:20
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...
October 15, 2021 at 18:01
What the ..., ? We were just chatting about regular fellows becoming infected with virulent pseudo-information, and sure enough, a bunch of influentia...
October 15, 2021 at 15:18
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...
October 15, 2021 at 00:43
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Come again? :D
October 15, 2021 at 00:12
Except, , not all "mainstream media" reports are bullshit and pseudo-information. Inflated or blanket distrust can be wacky just the same. Perhaps eve...
October 15, 2021 at 00:10
Hannah Arendt - Disinformation and Democracy (Aug 6, 2020) • 12 prominent people opposed to vaccines are responsible for two-thirds of anti-vaccine co...
October 14, 2021 at 21:32
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...
October 14, 2021 at 20:15
I've come across similar stories. It's not unique. With online filtering, raging discussions about censoring versus free speech, all that, sites like ...
October 14, 2021 at 19:18
That's not quite accurate. Canada: Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) (modeled after a compensation scheme available in Quebec since the late 1980s...
October 13, 2021 at 16:51
:meh: • Half of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy (Mar 29, 2019) • Millions of Evange...
October 11, 2021 at 06:09
(y) Well said (err written)
October 11, 2021 at 06:01
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...
October 09, 2021 at 01:26
Why COVID vaccines didn’t win a science Nobel this year (Oct 7, 2021)
October 09, 2021 at 00:35
, have you bothered checking historical (textbook) case studies? It's not like someone just came up with outbreak protocols last year. There's precede...
October 08, 2021 at 22:11
Caren White opines ... Trump is Showing Us What His Second Term Would Look Like (Oct 3, 2021)
October 08, 2021 at 21:50
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...
October 08, 2021 at 18:33
, 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 + ...
October 08, 2021 at 18:01
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...
October 08, 2021 at 15:47
Uhm... https://twitter.com/mmcauliff/status/1446119965434675207
October 07, 2021 at 22:35
A quick read regarding "the distance" between science/mathematics and the general public, exemplified with the pandemic: What we've got here is failur...
October 06, 2021 at 01:46
Oh, 1, 2, 3 isn't on the usual modus ponens form, please take your syllogism-hat off.
October 05, 2021 at 23:51
'bout time. :clap: Only a week, tho'?
October 05, 2021 at 23:48
Reiterated a few times by now ... But you want to make it about me, ? Cool. :) (old comment)
October 05, 2021 at 18:12
(y) ? Not that it matters, but I'm no fan personally.
October 05, 2021 at 17:33
, 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...
October 05, 2021 at 17:07
‘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,...
October 05, 2021 at 15:42
COVID-19 must be eliminated, not become endemic, if America is to survive (Oct 3, 2021) Might be a bit late now.
October 05, 2021 at 14:29
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:...
October 05, 2021 at 14:21
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 ...
October 04, 2021 at 14:29
, 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...
October 04, 2021 at 02:06
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 ...
October 03, 2021 at 22:45
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...
October 03, 2021 at 16:01
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 ...
October 03, 2021 at 04:16
, 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...
October 02, 2021 at 07:08
YouTube to remove misinformation videos about all vaccines (Sep 29, 2021) Elsewhere, someone posted a flurry of anti-whatever stuff, including this sa...
October 02, 2021 at 06:42
Anyone know of a specific (medical/biological) term for asymptomatic pathogen ? factories? (infectees that aren't harmed, or are insignificantly or ve...
October 01, 2021 at 21:49
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: ...
October 01, 2021 at 16:10
Joe Mercola: An antivaccine quack tycoon pivots effortlessly to profit from spreading COVID-19 misinformation (Jul 26, 2021)
October 01, 2021 at 05:03
I've come across a couple or so apparent outlier reports. Here's one: Covid-19 in Wales: A third of positive cases are unvaccinated (Sep 24, 2021)
September 29, 2021 at 19:09
Opinion piece from The Miami Herald: Goodbye, and good riddance (Leonard Pitts Jr; Sep 26, 2021)
September 29, 2021 at 18:32