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The politicization of science can limit the positive impacts that scientific advances can offer when people reject sound and beneficial scientific advice. Politicization has undoubtedly contributed to hesitancy toward uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
#VaccineResistance Comes From Childhood Legacy of Mistrust.Encouraging the vaccine-resistant will take more than advertising, Duke-led study reports
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today.duke.edu/2022/04/vaccin…
The Media Matters hitpiece on us
🚨Our new review paper 🚨 (with @roozenbot & @Sander_vdLinden) of #inoculationtheory applied to tackling #misinformation is out in the special issue “Threats to #Science” in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science!
🧵See 7 major points + link below:
🧵See 7 major points + link below:
🧵No, #fact-checking or #debunking is NOT enough to combat online misinformation - #fakenews can continue to influence reasoning and beliefs, even after it has been retracted/corrected. (1/7)
🧵Originating in the 60’s as a “vaccine for brainwash”, inoculation theory offers a logical basis for developing a psychological “#vaccine” against misinformation. (2/7)
According to Russia 🇷🇺 "The unexpected reveal of "innocent patients" with assault rifles showcased how the Ukrainian military uses ambulances." 🚨
Their proof? A video of 21 sec.
What do we see? Investigate! 👇 1/...
#OSINT 🔎
#Verification 🎥
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐
Their proof? A video of 21 sec.
What do we see? Investigate! 👇 1/...
#OSINT 🔎
#Verification 🎥
#GeoLocation 🌍
#HowToOSINT 🧐
The investigation on this tweet from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia is a team effort together with @Techjournalisto, @ArchitMeta and @akhmxt.
(Follow them if you like these kind of #OSINT-investigations.)
The short video is viewed more than 110K times. 2/...
(Follow them if you like these kind of #OSINT-investigations.)
The short video is viewed more than 110K times. 2/...
Armed men emerge from a van bearing the logo of the Red Cross.
The International Red Cross (ICRC) has a neutral status, also in the war in #Ukraine.
Do we see a recent war crime by the Ukrainian army in this clip? 3/...
The International Red Cross (ICRC) has a neutral status, also in the war in #Ukraine.
Do we see a recent war crime by the Ukrainian army in this clip? 3/...
Tempo di un po' di #debunking.
Outlet pro-#Russia stanno facendo passare questo video (ovviamente in bassa risoluzione) per dire che la mano del cadavere si muoverebbe e quindi che sarebbe tutta una messa in scena la strage di #Bucha.
Quando è evidente che si tratti di 1/?
Outlet pro-#Russia stanno facendo passare questo video (ovviamente in bassa risoluzione) per dire che la mano del cadavere si muoverebbe e quindi che sarebbe tutta una messa in scena la strage di #Bucha.
Quando è evidente che si tratti di 1/?
Qualcosa, probabilmente una goccia d'acqua o dello sporco, che è sul parabrezza.
Solitamente viene mostrato solo il loop della "mano che si muove", quando in realtà è evidente che la "mano" compare dal nulla, e si muove a una velocità smodata se fosse di una persona in vita. 2/?
Solitamente viene mostrato solo il loop della "mano che si muove", quando in realtà è evidente che la "mano" compare dal nulla, e si muove a una velocità smodata se fosse di una persona in vita. 2/?
Per quanto riguarda il "cadavere che si rialza" dopo il passaggio delle macchine: guardando il video in alta risoluzione e rallentandolo si vede subito che lo specchietto a più inclinazioni, o interferenziale, per avere un campo visivo maggiore durante le manovre 3/?
1/ One of those #debunking threads
@HelenClarkNZ former UNDP administrator and now a close colleague of @DrTedros is the latest #TPLFAgent screaming Genocide nonstop and finally came up with a most disingenuous article on the guardian yesterday. A closer look reveals who she is.
@HelenClarkNZ former UNDP administrator and now a close colleague of @DrTedros is the latest #TPLFAgent screaming Genocide nonstop and finally came up with a most disingenuous article on the guardian yesterday. A closer look reveals who she is.
2/ The article aside, let’s look into the pattern of 40+ tweets since the start of the conflict which reveal that Amhara and Afar lives are of no concern to her as she doesn’t even mention them. Moreover, she keeps silent whenever she thinks her allies are winning
3/ Apart from 1 tweet expressing her sadness about the start of war in Ethiopia on Nov 10, 2020, she didn’t have any comments on Ethiopia until Jan 23rd which marker a start of her active involvement. What prompted it? Humanitarian Concern? Look at 3 of her 1st tweets on the war
😎 Cool, not only an unverified 📸 with shady claims can go viral, but so can a step-by-step #verification of the same 📸.😎
Big 🙏 for all the nice compliments I received.
This thread is a 🎁 for my new followers. Welcome!
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Big 🙏 for all the nice compliments I received.
This thread is a 🎁 for my new followers. Welcome!
🤜🤛 [1/19]
In this 🧵 much MORE step-by-step #OSINT tips and tricks and the explanation WHY I write my #FactChecks as if you would do the research yourself. 👇👇👇 [2/19]
On this page 👇 you can read 100+ of my #FactChecks for 🇧🇪 magazine @Knack.
They are all 🆓 (not behind paywall). [3/19]
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They are all 🆓 (not behind paywall). [3/19]
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Auf die Parallelen zwischen unserem Umgang mit der #Pandemie und unserem Umgang mit dem #Klimawandel wurde ja schon vielfach hingewiesen. Diese Parallelen zeigen sich besonders klar in den Debatten um #Treiber und #Kontaktbudgets. Aber können wir etwas daraus lernen? Ein #Thread.
Erkenntnis I: Sowohl Pandemie als auch Klimawandel sind ein Tod durch tausend Nadelstiche. Es gibt keinen singulären "Treiber". Das macht jede Debatte sinnlos, in der das Hauptargument lautet, [der Verkehr, der Tourismus, Deutschland, die EU...] sei ja nicht der Hauptverursacher.
Erkenntnis II: Natürlich können wir [Schulen, Friseure, Hotels...] öffnen - wenn dafür andere zurückstecken. Wir haben ein Kontaktbudget, das wir nur einmal ausgeben können. Ähnlich beim #CO2. Wenn uns #Eigenheime wichtig sind - kein Problem. Wir müssen aber anderswo ausgleichen.
So we start with the 1st line & hit the buffers as we hit the “reallocate funds fallacy”. This has been explained so many times. Cancelling #HS2 means no money for anything else. Funds raised for #HS2 can ONLY be spent on HS2 & these funds are borrowed against future use.
If there’s no HS2, there’s no funding for HS2 & no money. Also please explain how NR received an initial £48bn for CP6 back in 2019 if HS2 was “hoovering up funds”. As for value, as seen with existing lines, heavy capital costs are made back over the lengthy operational timespan
Remember that parts of today’s WCML are almost 200 years old. How many times has that paid for itself over & over & over again above its initial costs? Also, what’s with a #Green going with the austerity rhetoric?? We can’t afford not to decarbonise, at any cost, esp public spend
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 11/23/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/dai…
Balancing Epistemic Humility and Prior Knowledge - Insight
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#humility #balancing #knowledge #coronavirus #prior
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#humility #balancing #knowledge #coronavirus #prior
Maybe There is No Technological Slowdown - New Things Under the Sun
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#growth #technology #decline
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#growth #technology #decline
1/ The time has come for yet another #debunking, this time of sheer hype re a medication used in treatment of severe or critical #COVID19. #Dexamethasone is a bog-standard form of cortisone, & only useful to reduce inflammation.
2/n It's nice of the report to include an extrapolation of how many lives would be saved if you use #dexamethasone in the treatment of certain cases of severe to critical #COVID19, but as you can see from the figure, it actually isn't all that much.
bbc.com/news/health-53…
bbc.com/news/health-53…
3/n #Dexamethasone is being *deliberately* hyped up. Not for financial reasons. It's a bog-standard form of cortisone, *nobody* is going to get rich from making a financial killing in it.
Ecco il thread sulle radiazioni ionizzanti e non. E' un po' lungo ma discorsivo. Se non avete voglia di leggerlo ora potete salvarlo. Cerco di definire i concetti in modo che poi possiate usarli autonomamente. Non farò #debunking (per quello ci sono altri più bravi).
Si parla sempre più spesso dei rischi connessi al #5G 5G ed all’uso delle onde elettromagnetiche che vengono sempre chiamate “radiazione elettromagnetica”. Anche se questa terminologia non è sbagliata genera tanta confusione.
Articoli di giornale corredati dell’immancabile foto del segnale di pericolo con la paletta nera su sfondo giallo non fanno altro che creare disinformazione pericolosa e bufale. Un giornale che mette una foto del genere merita, secondo me, almeno una sanzione amministrativa.
Politics is one of the most divisive subjects in the history of mankind. It has caused strife within societies as well as between nations. It can divide couples, families, and culture. It can influence the news channels, TV shows and movies we watch. Often, we decide who is a
good person and who is a bad person by the political beliefs they have. Even religions and theology can be divided by politics, and Christianity is no exception. This latter point is interesting, considering that the Bible itself is quite clear on many subjects that we bicker and
Like most people, I was fascinated with dinosaurs as a kid. Heck, I still am, having 6 books and about 20 or so documentaries on them at home. I have a fascination with these scaled and feathered giants of old, those titans of horn and fang that dominated the earth before God
silenced their roars with a meteor 65 million years ago. Such realities are the stuff from which folklore, mythology and fantasy can derive, a true tale that can spawn the tall tales of tomorrow.
And such tall tales are not the purview of fiction novels.
Now and again,
And such tall tales are not the purview of fiction novels.
Now and again,
Do (supposed) parallels between #Christ and some #pagan #gods prove that #Jesus was based on pagan gods?
Um, NO, and the #Undertaker will show why:
#Debunking about to commence...
Um, NO, and the #Undertaker will show why:
#Debunking about to commence...
Jesus Mythicists will try to find whatever parallel they can with Christ in order to make him a mythological figure, in order to cast doubt on his existence, his historicity.
As many have noted, these parallels are faulty at best, absurd at the worst. Indeed, many of the
As many have noted, these parallels are faulty at best, absurd at the worst. Indeed, many of the
supposed parallels are clever lies, intended to fool a public that is poorly educated on history and generally not willing to check their sources.
But let’s look at their logic, shall we? Let’s look at their argument, expressed as letters:
B has many similarities to A
But let’s look at their logic, shall we? Let’s look at their argument, expressed as letters:
B has many similarities to A
Siddhartha Gautama, aka Buddha, was a historical figure. However, the exact time period in which he lived is up for grabs (he may have been born in the 7th, 6th or 5th century BC, we don’t know for sure, though the scholarly consensus places it in the latter). One reason why this
the case is because Buddha’s teachings and biographies were written down centuries after he died. Indeed, Buddha’s teaching were passed on orally until the first century AD, when it was written down, becoming the Pali Canon (aka Tripitaka). Now Buddha died between 410-370 BC, so
Was the #Egyptian #God #Horus #crucified like #Christ?
Um, #No, and here is why:
#Debunking about to commence...
Um, #No, and here is why:
#Debunking about to commence...
There are several different accounts of Horus’ death, which involved anything from being stung by a scorpion, bitten by a snake, cut into pieces, etc. Yet none of these state that he was crucified, which makes sense, given that crucifixion wasn't an Egyptian form of execution.
It was, however, a form of execution that was well used by the Persians, Carthaginians, Seleucids and Romans. It was done from the 6th century BC to the 4rth century AD. .If one expected Horus to be executed in any way in the myths, it would have been with a form of execution
If anyone tells you that the god #Attis was born of a virgin, crucified and resurrected, respond to them in the following way:
#Debunking #About #To #Happen
#Debunking #About #To #Happen
Though there was technically no "sex" involved in his conception, as well shall see, this does not mean he was virgin born.
You see, in one version, Zeus masturbates, his semen hits the land and produces an apple tree. one of its fruits falls on the lap of Nana, the daughter of
You see, in one version, Zeus masturbates, his semen hits the land and produces an apple tree. one of its fruits falls on the lap of Nana, the daughter of
a river god. Thus, she becomes pregnant. In another, a hermaphrodite monster named Agdistis (Likewise born of Zeus masturbating) was made drunk by the gods (adding wine to the pool where the monster bathed in). They tied Agdistis' genitals to a tree after the monster went to
