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Apr 21 4 tweets 3 min read
@AcceptableToad @KeithWoodsYT Oh, Academic Agent is still around + switched from @NotCarKing to @AcademicAgent_X?

I remember when Potholer54, I, and others repeatedly debunked his climate change denialism.

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x.com/AtomsksSanakan… @AcceptableToad @KeithWoodsYT @NotCarKing @AcademicAgent_X It's telling that Academic Agent tells the same fabrication Potholer54 debunked years ago.

Denialists like him never honestly learn.

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Apr 7 6 tweets 6 min read
@pureMetatron Also telling there wasn't a response to Dave's video on Matt Ridley's climate change denialism, despite scientists' favorable comments on Dave's video.

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x.com/AndrewDessler/… Image @pureMetatron So literalism on the Noachian flood, along with Sodom and Gomorrah?

Still pretty strange to say Jesus did either.

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Apr 5 5 tweets 4 min read
@pureMetatron Some concluding points of agreement:

- Dave misrepresented why you ended the stream on his Hancock debunk

- he sometimes prematurely assigns motive (ex: Thiel paying Hossenfelder)
youtube.com/watch?v=KW_HPn…

- he shouldn't have mentioned your mother
youtube.com/watch?v=WlqZoU… @pureMetatron Just noticed gateways from 'normie' YouTube to more extreme views on Musk's Twitter, promotion of Nick Fuentes, etc.

FYI: Nyong'o was born in Mexico + of Kenyan heritage. It's biased to conflate that with Congo + Detroit.

"Helen of Congo"
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Apr 4 16 tweets 12 min read
@pureMetatron You say Christians shouldn't subscribe to him because he thinks we're stupid.

That's not what he said. You're treating his criticism of your day-age creationism as meaning all Christians are dumb.

(FYI: Dave likely got that clip from me)

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@pureMetatron Not all Christians hold the views you do, Metatron, like:

- supporting the right-wing
- thinking the left wing is evil
- believing in a non-metaphorical Adam and Eve
- insinuating there was a global flood

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Dec 14, 2025 6 tweets 5 min read
@hausfath Within the uncertainty range of IPCC 1990 First Assessment Report's 1990-2025 projection.

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"predicted rise from 1990 (to 2030) of 0.7–1.5 °C with a best estimate of 1.1 °C"
nature.com/articles/nclim…

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web.archive.org/web/2019031407… Image @hausfath 1990-2025 warming trend is ~0.25°C/decade.

psl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/data/a…

Implies ~0.9°C of global warming for 1990-2025, i.e. close to the projected average value of 1°C.

48:40 - 55:02 :
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The red arrow is 1990:
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Dec 7, 2025 21 tweets 19 min read
1/F

Dr. Anthony Fauci complained about death threats to him, his family, public health experts + staff, etc.

This thread will cover some of the rhetoric that may have contributed to that, along with surrounding context.

1:43:53 - 1:47:40 :
2/F

Fauci is not alone in receiving threats.

For example, there's Dr. Nicole Kleinstreuer:

"Death threats to NIH official spark debate over aggressive campaign to end animal research"
science.org/content/articl…

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Nov 7, 2025 51 tweets 56 min read
1/M

The most secure position in science is one that's both:

1) supported by an evidence-based scientific consensus
2) disputed by Matt Ridley [@mattwridley]

This thread will provide some examples.

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Ridley shows how one can get away with being wrong on topic after topic, as long one states the paranoid ideological narrative many conspiracy theorists want to hear.

Others made this point, such as Dave Farina.

pubpeer.com/publications/D…

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Oct 6, 2025 5 tweets 5 min read
@curryja No, it's just Koonin disinforming people again.

For example, he's still misrepresenting modern sea level rise compared to sea level rise in the 1930s.

Neither of you honestly care about evidence.

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archive.is/50sv0#selectio… Image @curryja Koonin repeats the same misinformation as Pielke Jr.

The National Academies' report and the DOE report cite some of the same studies.
It's just that the former accurately represents them, while the latter distorts them.

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Sep 14, 2025 8 tweets 9 min read
@curryja If it's anything like Steven Koonin's 2014 op-ed in WSJ, then it's filled with ideologically-motivated misinformation and denialism.

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[archive.is/v03kY] Image @curryja About 30% more warming occurred during the first quarter of the 21st century than during the last quarter of the 20th century.

Models did fine.

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May 19, 2025 4 tweets 4 min read
@grok @19joho @WSJopinion @mattwridley x.com/curryja/status…
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Ryan Maue:
"Use ERA5 or JRA-55"
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"[...] according to ERA5 [...].
The increase for the last thirty years, from 1995 to 2024, is 0.26 ± 0.05°C per decade."
climate.copernicus.eu/climate-indica… Image @grok @19joho @WSJopinion @mattwridley @grok Ridley predicted less than 0.5°C of warming.

"Matt Ridley's 2014 prediction that global warming from 1995 to 2025 would be about 0.5°C"
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Apr 26, 2025 33 tweets 33 min read
1/J

Back in 2019 Javier Vinós (@JVinos_Climate) made some predictions, and I made some in response.

This thread will assess the accuracy of those predictions.

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There are also ongoing predictions elsewhere

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In 2019 Vinós said:
"All the warming since 2013 and more will be lost."
judithcurry.com/2019/02/07/cli…

My response:
judithcurry.com/2019/02/07/cli…

He also predicted:
"no net warming over the first quarter of the 21st century"
judithcurry.com/2019/02/08/sea…

My response:
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Dec 18, 2024 8 tweets 5 min read
@luckytran Bhattacharya, 11 Nov 2020:

"In Sweden, 6,000 deaths to date from COVID, and only 1,800 total excess deaths. They have fewer excess deaths total, all cause, than COVID deaths"
edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/vi…

🤨

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[msemburi.shinyapps.io/excessvis/]

ourworldindata.org/explorers/covi… Image @luckytran Sometimes public shaming works.

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Dec 9, 2024 5 tweets 5 min read
@luckytran Bhattacharya' NIH nomination for 2025 is reminiscent of Scott Pruitt's EPA nomination for 2017:

Position a contrarian ideologue whose views contradict published evidence + expert assessments.

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cnbc.com/2017/03/09/sco… Image @luckytran In which Bhattacharya does the intellectual equivalent of claiming vaccine denialists are being unfairly persecuted because Andrew Wakefield's blog told him so

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Nov 18, 2024 5 tweets 6 min read
@luckytran No, 'focused protection' did not lead to herd immunity within 6 months in Florida.

"Florida, which adopted a focused-protection approach"
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gbdeclaration.org/frequently-ask… Image @luckytran And again:

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Nov 17, 2024 28 tweets 27 min read
@luckytran Re: "Bhattacharya has spread disinformation on COVID"

You may want to support this claim, if you haven't already.

There are plenty of examples of him spreading misinformation.

For instance: on masking

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jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap… Image @luckytran Promoting obvious disinformation about China's COVID-19 policy.

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Feb 23, 2024 57 tweets 61 min read
71/J

I recently got a copy of Dr. Judith Curry's book without buying it myself.

Looking over it confirmed to me that it's largely misinformation.

I'll illustrate that by assessing its claims on COVID-19.

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"11.3.1 COVID-19"
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To reiterate: Curry draws parallels between COVID-19 + climate change.

But some of the sources she cites suggest an ideologically convenient narrative misinformed her.

That becomes clearer when assessing her claims.

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Feb 17, 2024 72 tweets 85 min read
1/J

Dr. Judith Curry recommends people read at least the 45-page preview of her new book.

I did.

It's bad enough I wouldn't recommend buying the book.
It's largely contrarian conspiracist misinformation.




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Many reviews laud the book without addressing whether her claims are accurate, likely because she ways what they want to hear.











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Aug 30, 2023 5 tweets 5 min read
PapersOfTheDay

"Executive Summary to the Royal Society report “COVID-19: examining the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions”"


"Effectiveness of face masks for reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2: [...]"
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Aug 1, 2023 7 tweets 7 min read
@19joho @WSJopinion Re: "I can predict the future by reading the @WSJopinion and knowing the opposite will come true."

Another example:

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"[...] the expectation of 0.2C/decade provided by the IPCC AR4.
[...] the AGW dominated prediction of 0.2C/decade does not seem like a good bet [...]"
judithcurry.com/2012/02/07/tre…

"By Judith Curry"
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Mar 13, 2023 11 tweets 12 min read
69/E

A reminder, since there's a resurgence in Musk + right-wing politicians trying to score political points by saying they want Fauci prosecuted:

Musk's dislike of Fauci drove him to post an easily debunked lie (57/E, 56/, 41/)


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Still no apology from Musk for falsely smearing Grady based on untrue things he was told, or that he made up.

"Elon Musk calls British diver in Thai cave rescue 'pedo' in baseless attack"
theguardian.com/technology/201…



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