A 🧵 on belief in conspiracy theories

Many of us combat the most outlandish conspiracies out there on a day-to-day basis. Everything from glyphosate causing cancer in humans () to flat earth, the mother of all conspiracies ()

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_fl… Our job in #scicomm isn’t to just identify false claims, but to actively combat them using a variety of strategies. This job is not only a personal goal of some, but as @TimlfieldTim argues, it is also both a moral and professional duty (). The reason

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1/ A 🧵 on #criticalthinking
Recently, I’ve come across so many misconceptions and folk beliefs about what critical thinking is, I thought I’d write a🧵 to try and clarify some of these misunderstandings. Since it covers so many topics, it’s nearly impossible to pin down exactly 2/ what it is or how to do it. Thus this thread is by no means exhaustive. Some of these misconceptions include beliefs such as “We are all born critical thinkers” or “Critical thinking comes naturally” or “I’m a critical thinker because I question authority.” These ideas persist

🧵 A thread of threads on #VAERS use and abuse

Read, bookmark, share, QT, spread the word. This thread has almost anything you could need to shut down the poor arguments used by anti-vaxxers who don’t understand what VAERS is, what it’s for, or how to use it.

Let’s go! How VAERS can be misused

https://x.com/saadomer3/status/1477730000824639494?s=46&t=Pdy3G6an5egDPAdCpAnLgA

1/🚨A 🧵on how @stkirsch avoids a debate he asked for!! On May 1, 2023, after he'd been ranting on about how no one would debate him, a team of scientists, professors, authors, doctors, med students and researchers offered him a fair debate proposal 2/ Steve didn't want to debate. He wanted to talk privately about #VAERS and excess deaths, despite that our team had thoroughly prepared for those very topics prior to submitting our debate proposal

1/ A 🧵on #logicalfallacies and thinking errors anti-vaxxers commit when using #VAERS 2/ Post hoc ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this) – VARES does not establish a cause/effect relationship between vaccines and adverse events. vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide…