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23 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
He would have expected Bret Weinstein to platform a fringe academic who is promoting unfounded fears about the vaccines?!? Am sure he will provide suitable critical pushback.

For those curious about the guest, see:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/countering-gee… pca.st/episode/4fe8d2…
Some more useful articles:
deplatformdisease.com/blog/addressin…
And:
vaxopedia.org/2021/03/14/who…
I haven't got through yet but have already heard Bret add in the requisite disclaimer that 'he doesn't know if he is right' that the vaccines should be halted due to their danger BUT what he can say is that Geert 'is making sense' and that his argument is 'completely coherent'.
Not going well. This is remarkably irresponsible. Bret and his guest warn that the vaccines may be dangerous for children and will suppress your natural immune system. You also get the naturalistic fallacy, Galileo gambit, and highly suspect historical claims. Catnip to Bret 😩.

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12 Sep 20
Ok so #CynicalTheories Chapter 2: Applied Postmodernism. This chapter out of the gate feels thick with hyperbole. We are told: “The postmodernists sought to render absurd our ways of understanding, approaching, and living in the world and in societies.”
The heavily anthropomorphised ‘Theory’ is also up to no good. Bored with its adolescent stage of deconstructing everything, it has now entered its moody teens & wants to mess things up properly.
Lest the anthropomic metaphor be too subtle we get treated to an extended Agent Smith-esque rift on how postmodernism is actually like a contagious virus that mutates into new forms. Why do I get the feeling this is a James-heavy section & he was smirking all the time he wrote?
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31 Aug 20
So kicking off the chapter by chapter #CynicalTheories review/reaction-a-thon with a look at the Introduction. There’s quite a lot of ground covered over 9 pages so strap in. Image
The introduction starts with a rousing paean of ‘liberalism’ defined as a political philosophy that advocates political democracy, limitations on the powers of government, universal human rights, legal equality, freedom of expression, respect for viewpoint diversity & debate...
...respect for evidence and reason, the separation of church and state, & freedom of religion.

And this is contrasted against the opposing (evil) systems of ‘theocracy, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, fascism, and other forms of discrimination’.
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12 Aug 20
Ok so last thread on #ScienceFictions by @StuartJRitchie covering the epilogue, the appendix, and my overall thoughts. To spoil the surprise I went in expecting to like this book and found I loved it. I’d put it up with Demon Haunted World and Bad Science as books to recommend.
I also think Stuart deserves a hat tip for the public service he did writing this book. Immersing yourself in frauds, publication bias, and crappy studies for a few years is depressing. It would be hard not to become jaded. And I think it did take some toll.
Yet... Stuart remains a believer in, and advocate for, good science. And on this point he reiterates a consistent theme throughout the previous chapters that despite all the perverse incentives for science to improve it still requires *scientists* should do better.
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27 Jul 20
Chapter 4 of #ScienceFictions by @StuartJRitchie is on Bias. This is a subject often discussed by academics but mainly in regards to other people’s research. Personally, I think it’s hard to overstate how important this topic is but let’s see what the chapter offers.
The chapter opens with a brief discussion of the 19th Century American scientist Samuel Merton and his efforts to demonstrate that the moral and mental faculties of different races could be traced to their skull size. Morton’s measurements were later harshly critiqued by Gould.
Gould highlighted how Merton’s measurements appeared to be strongly contaminated by his racial bias, causing systemic measurement. This is a topic returned to later in the chapter but here some details for how ideology could influence measurement are provided.
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