#Skepticism

Jesse Case

jessecase

THREAD (uh oh)A few nights ago I tweeted about the vaccine and went viral (the irony!). I've since received quite a bit of hate mail, all along the lines of

Burnt-Out Case

BurntOutCase

This NYT article while flawed in several respects has the virtue of at least acknowledging more widely than I have seen in other MSM reporting the Indian heritage of Kamala

Karam Bales

karamballes

1/ The day mass testing in schools was announced I started raising concerns.The government knew this wasn't an appropriate use and was actually dangerous, we know they'd been warned about

Soumya

skarlamangla

as of yesterday, 1,303,518 vaccine doses have been administered in California, about 40% of the supply the state has receivedin terms of what percentage of our population has gotten a

tolu ogunlesi

toluogunlesi

So that’s how I went to Idu Station yesterday to see the new Automated Fare Collection system at work. Told that 85% of tickets bought for the 7am to KD

jonat_anim

gtoisa10

my fav Punpun lines:This list contains all the most stimulating lines (which tackles existential questions/quotes/ relatable/interesting thoughts/ bluntly depressing/nihilistic)... chronologically! 1- “did God create Men or did men create

Michael Edison Hayden

MichaelEHayden

After a march in Warsaw that included neo-Nazi groups, Jack Posobiec met with Stefan Molyneux in a 5-star hotel. Posobiec interviewed him. The men discussed white nationalism, per a source.

Sam Rocha

SamRochadotcom

There two ways in which people try to dismiss the existence of white privilege. The first is to deny social privilege in toto, which is very stupid. The second is

Gordon Pennycook

GordPennycook

New working paper! "On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs" https://psyarxiv.com/a7k96 Read this thread if

Andrew Gordon Wilson

andrewgwils

There is a lot of often overlooked evidence that standard p(w) = N(0, a*I) priors combined with a NN f(x,w) induce a distribution over functions p(f(x)) with useful properties!... 1/15

Sonia Sulaiman

SoniaSulaiman

Time for the Sci Fi Palestine panel! #palestinewrites Two key texts for science fiction Palestine: The Book of Disappearance, and Palestine +100. #palestinewrites "Trying to imagine alternative possibilities for survival

Climate Tracker News

CTrackerNews

While there has been much talk about environmental revival in 2020, this was not the case everywhere. Moreover, pollution has returned to pre pandemic levels. Stories in this thread tell

Chad Pergram

ChadPergram

1) All eyes are Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the talks for another coronavirus bill. McConnell says he will release a bill in the coming days. The Leader

Nathan Oseroff-Spicer

nathanoseroff

Am I reading Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay's recent book, Cynical Theories? Yes.Is it bad? Of course.Am I wasting my time? Naturally. If I understand this correctly, Pluckrose and Lindsay

Philippe Lemoine

phl43

One of the weirdest things about the cost-benefit debate on restrictions, beside the fact that it's almost non-existent, is that almost everyone talks as if restrictions didn't have an immediate

Andy Grewal

AndyGrewal

uh, what is happening?https://twitter.com/eorden/status/1274178463881146370 I am going to have to confess my skepticism of any argument that, unless the Senate confirms someone else, Berman simply cannot be fired or removed

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