#Science

Bad Actor/Autistic Person

JoboGinger

Just in case people don't know how horrifying Autism Speaks is, I'm gonna do a little thread: A woman who held a leadership position in the organisation contemplated killing her

Coronavirus Brasil

CoronavirusBra1

Geneticistas da Grã-Bretanha e Alemanha mapearam o caminho evolutivo do #coronavirus e descobriram que existem atualmente três versões espalhando pelo mundo. Descobertas mostram que o vírus se adaptou bem à

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

The progress on the science front to fighting COVID continues to be at like the 95th percentile of reasonable expectations, even as the political/societal response has, uh, not been.https://twitter.com/TheLancet/status/1285207186591887360 h

gael 🎸

prodbybx

i constantly think about pacific rim's "in order to fight monsters, we created monsters of our own". in science fiction you have two different approaches when it comes to monsters.

Jónas Haraldsson Balding 大老板

BaldingsWorld

You have two specific problems. First, popular science writing is really hard and there aren't lots of people that do it and do it well. If I ran a major

ITV News

itvnews

‘What do I say to the science? I say I don’t believe your science as I believe my god’. Americans protest against coronavirus lockdown measures https://www.itv.com/news/2020-04-20/the-anti-lockdown-movement-a-very-american-protest-amid-coronavirus-pa

Dean Burnett

garwboy

I used the term 'Fisher Price eugenicists' to describe those dismissing #Covid19 as it 'only affects the old/already ill'. And I stand by that 100%It reminded me of when I've

Scott W. Atlas

SWAtlasHoover

1/4: I was asked by the President of the United States to help formulate healthcare policy during the biggest healthcare crisis in a century. My extensive background in both medical

Lambeth Living Streets

LambethLivingSt

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. LTNs.It seems like everyone is talking about them. But do they actually *work?*Here's a THREAD: Ask a cyclist and you're likely to get one answer. Ask a

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

PeterHotez

I don’t understand the ⁦basis of these public statements? To my knowledge there are no publicly available data to show that any of the Operation Warp Speed actually work -

Kali Anna Bunn

KaliAnnaBunn

Y’all this movie is AWFUL! It’s a slap in the face to the environmental movement, especially releasing it on Earth Day. It is not based in science. It has very

Wagatwe Wanjuki 🇰🇪 🇧🇸

wagatwe

"credibility" is a nebulous construct shaped by the dominant group. hence credibility is a racist, sexist, ableist, and classist construct that intentionally excludes most rape victims. credibility is a totally

Eileen Iorio

eileeniorio

Harvard scientist and colleague of Dr. Fauci slams Moderna vaccine press release w/out data, affecting share prices. He questions Fauci's judgement and FDA recommendations for Remdesivir. He criticizes the Oxford

Usman T. Malik

usmantm

From what I have seen of the numbers (and understanding we have extremely unreliable models and limited local data), the 'leaky lockdown' that IK and Pakistan are using seems to

Jamie Vickery

JamieVickery

I just listened to a webinar presentation by @HazCenter Director Lori Peek titled, "Understanding the Societal Impacts of COVID-19." In it, she highlighted 7 key lessons learned from decades of

Aelfred The Great

aelfred_D

This statement, with its hilariously obvious philosophical presumptions, its ignorance of the nature of “Science” as a human endeavor both ancient and modern (both of which require some sort of