#Science

I'm teaching research methods this term and it's like everything from my class is in the news these days.Last week was research ethics (Nuremberg, Tuskegee, etc.). "Here's why you need
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I want a two hour Jurassic Park movie where absolutely nothing goes wrong. Just two hours of having fun at a functioning theme park with love dinosaurs. Show me the
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It is extremely easy to "prove" evolution via common descent to a young earth creationist. When they ask how you know it is true, just say you read it in
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I feel like maybe I should start compiling a set photos and tweets of cats destroying Christmas trees. You know, just as a contrast to the festive joy squirrels bring
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When a scientist says "This paper doesn't show this" or "We don't have enough evidence to say"They are not saying it's wrong. Or that it will never be shown. They
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Thread: anti-science people // Why are event planners CHOOSING to be irresponsible and hold summer events? It truly gives a bad name to an entire industry. @YALiberty one of your
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Tankies who arrive at the theoretical conclusion that the first thing lost in late capitalism's Bowling Alone alienation process is labor solidarity are more useful than people who arrive from
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Cool story, bro. Hope you’ll also explain your demands to the people who'll have reproductive control of their own bodies taken away - or lose the right to marry -
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 21@UCSFhospitals, 18 Covid+ pts, same. 7 in ICU, 3 on vents. Note: 30 pts @ Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, our safety net, a disproportionate #
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We are in the middle of a ferocious second wave of Covid in India.It seems pointless to do postmortems. But one thing that has bothered me enormously over the last three months
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You notice how when two person who love each other lives together for a long time, they start to look alike? Well here’s the science behind it. You know, we
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Why I disagree: for me it's #PeerReview YES! & #Preprint YES! There are definitely not exclusive. A thread https://twitter.com/ScheuringLab/status/1304433607423991808 There are bad papers that pass peer-review. We have plenty of
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‘Institutionalization increases transdiagnostic vulnerability to psychopathology from childhood to adolescence, a period of significant social and biological change.’https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2707957
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sharknado 7: living at home with my right-wing parents during a global pandemic and election but in happier news, the pandemic is ending november 4th! my dad reminds us every
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Okay, this is #Lemming territory:First, read this quote from the freaking President of Notre Dame University - part of the "invincibility" behavior:(more like #GroupNoThink)If everyone tested negative, we're fine, right?See
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#ReopenVirginia and #ReopenAmerica protestors are selfish, ignorant, and spiteful idiots. They're going to keep us in lockdown even further and kill thousands of people. @ all the haters, I stay
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