#Scientific

Little fired up this morning, because I have ZERO patience for “scientific activism.” Anyone can see in my timeline I have both condemned and celebrated #DezNat. I will admit, I
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Chief Executive, Carrie Lam:This morning, we called a special meeting. In the meeting we have amended Cap599 - one change for vaccines, and one change to extend quarantine up to
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Some thoughts on the Harpers letter. I support it in spirit: the world would be a better place if people could be more tolerant and open minded. But I think
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Apropos of nothing, here are a few things that people with #longCOVID should know about the pseudoscientific Lightning Process. TL;DR? Grifters gonna grift. Want more? Read on. (1/12) The Lightning
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It is Election Day and I have had people ask about what's going to happen tonight. I have a few thoughts:1/7 #TNSen Dr. Bush & Dr. Flinn spent a lot
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800 years and they're still pretending leprosy is an "infectious disease" caused by bacteria.https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1355822842567413760 "It is not entirely clear how the infection is spread but it is thought to be
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Scientists investigating whether it's possible to be re-infected with a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in S. Africa. Antibodies from previous infection didn't recognise new variant in 21/44 cases but
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Watch out folks: there's a lot of news circulating of a "new strain" of COVID called G614 found in southeast Asia. This is NOT A NEW STRAIN, but rather it
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With Pfizer’s vaccine being granted authorization in the UK and the prospect of a Covid-19 vaccine EUA here in the US, I wanted to take a moment to answer some
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#Archaeology31 Day 19- Fashion. An Andean study of a 9k year old high-status burial found that the hunter was a woman, subverting the 'Man the Hunter' tropes. A scientific illustrator
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To any #bced staff who wants to require masks in their space, you have a right to “expect” it (not require).If admin says you can’t, ask to see the PHO’s
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Modelling evidence (and experience from previous lockdown) suggests that restrictions will not bring R below 1 with the new strain unless we significantly reduce transmission from primary, secondary schools and
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Evolutionary psych provides a nice example of how having a good explanation for something does not imply you understand it—and why the "goodness" of the explanation is not a guide
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This is what happens when you leave universities, education and research alike, in the hands of businessmen (not accidental) and allow that centres that ought to be for knowledge and
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Being against transactivism and wokeism doesn't entail that we are against the idea that structural racism exists (we know it does) and against the "decolonisation" of academia. Sometimes I feel
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Okay no livestream but we’ll do a quick tour of #NOAA43 (Miss Piggy) before we head to #Isaias. She’s been flying storms since 1977 and has plenty of scientific gizmos
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