#SCIENCE

If the MOH's of Ontario are going to craft a letter on school openings and cite science I would at least expect them to comment on important work like this
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Yes, that's right, I'm a philosopher, and my job is analysing concepts and their relations.And the thing is Oz, clinical psychology and psychiatry and very often not about analysing actual
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I didn't do any dev until high school (visual basic class!) and then circa 2006 my (computer illiterate) dad desperately tried to convince me not to go to college for
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Today @babybumpproject and I presented our work on "#MeToo Antarctica: Gendered power relations and sexual harassment in #Antarctic science and remote #fieldwork​" at the #GSWC2020 @leadingatwork, where we highlighted
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. HELEN QUINN, born 1943. A native of Australia, Quinn was encouraged to pursue maths by a high school teacher, but faced obstacles as a maths-loving
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I'm beggining to wonder if anyone actually understands retrocausality because this is about as close as you get to it.We can't play catch up like this. We have to be
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I’d like to start a 2nd thread here about gender, science and the equality dividend.Prominent female physicists are still too rare. When you are dealing with a critic at Sabine’s
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1/The continued news about a certain MOC from GA generates a lot of "oh my well that's just so wrong"But an article (h/t @whitneymnz) from 2020 seems to show acceptance
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The Government has announced a new strategy to tackle obesity in England.But can Boris Johnson solve Britain’s greatest health crisis?Check this *thread* to find out The new obesity strategy
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The insidious attacks on scientific truth https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-insidious-attacks-on-scientific-truth - a regrettably arrogant, scornful, and snide piece by @RichardDawkins Yes, there is a lot to criticise in positions tha
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1/ Been thinking a lot about the vaccine announcement yesterday. Assuming it holds up, a true example of science and scientists at their best - a small group of people
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Just read an article in @aeonmag about the abuses of Popperian falsification in Western society from Charlotte Sleigh (@KentCHOTS). I've seen this attachment to falsification play out repeatedly. A thread
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It's @POTUS's Climate Day and Biden *just signed* a batch of new climate policies to shift government operations into climate action mode, pause new fossil fuel leases on federal land,
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Instead of importing the rotten British cultural practice of forcing everyone into a state of shouting about trans people all the time we could just... Not do that Aside from
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I am not anti-science, anti-medicine or anti-doctorsWestern medicine has its time & place and I truly value all healthcare workersI am against Pharma corruption of medicine, medical school, medical research,
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1 #TropiCon20 #CameraTraps are a popular wildlife monitoring tool that take photos or videos when triggered by an animal @MammalWeb is a citizen science project that invites the public to
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