#Risky

Wow. This story is wild. I have to be careful because it hits literally every confirmation bias I have. Rich white guys who are incompetent and waste tons of money.
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*** NEW INVESTIGATION: SILENT WITNESSES *** http://www.ft.com/content/7dc13ec9-721c-41a7-8423-daeb9a743e9aThis white Audi pulled out of a Johannesburg car park one evening in 2016. Inside was André Bekker, a convivial geologist. Minutes la
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Shocking exposé of #PIA and #CAA by Al-Jazeera, quoting six pilots, who they've spoken to. Cheating, fraudulent certification, pressure tactics, routine waivers, collusion. Pilots encouraged to come in "hot and
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A #blerd thread about how I realized I had #impostersyndrome and found the inspiration for my dissertation study: (1/14)I will be going in and out of AAV#AcademicChatter Ok 1st let
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Article states that two “gain of function” flu projects (unnamed) were also given waivers, along with the 5 MERS projects - wouldn’t this have been with Fauci’s approval?“Moratorium on risky
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It's not yet time to celebrate, folks, the new EU AI legislation falls WOEFULLY short of protecting our communities against the unacceptable roll out of facial recognition for mass surveillance
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OH OOPS I FORGOTOne more fucked-up circus storyAre you familiar with... the Flying Wallendas? The Wallendas- who are STILL PERFORMING to this day, by the way- are a seven-generation circus
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Last night my wife made a Han themed cocktail for #SoloAStarWarsStory. It's got gin, coffee liqueur, a cherry, and some other stuff. Like Han, it's bold and risky but it
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NEW @instituteforgov paper: Implementing #Brexit: securing more time. We know @GOVUK does not want to extend the Brexit transition period - but what if businesses needed more time to adapt
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incoming… googlemore unsealed docs, this time in the Google case led by Arizona Attorney General. The newly unsealed material is underlined in green unsealed this week (left). Last year, Google
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I frequently get asked about risk of catching #covid19 from various activities. I love this diagram. As your personal risk goes up (bc of your own health, or because of
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Thread:My kids (4 and 7) have subjected me to all three movies in Disney's 'The Descendants' series today.It may be the resulting brain rot speaking, but I think the entire
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14 years ago today, Taylor Swift released her debut single “Tim McGraw”. The song was Taylor‘s first top 40 hit on the Hot 100. Since then she has garnered 63
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Hello, it's me - a chronically ill and vulnerable person - here to remind you that lockdown never ended for disabled people.No one outside of the disability community seems to
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0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors.I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created...https://twitter.com/MarkChangizi/status/1239995212572876802?s=20This thread gets more at th
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Everything in this video is true. All of it—all 7 mil cases & 200k deaths.As an epidemiologist, I remember every quote and statistics in the video. The horror is seared
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