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We aim to promote science, curiosity, rationality, philosophy, critical thinking, scientific skepticism & sentientism/humanism. Against quackery & pseudoscience
Aug 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A quick look at the replies below this tweet from doctors justifying the move is a snapshot of state of science in India! -->
May 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Where is the evidence that this works? Even the trial design looks problematic looking at the limited data available about primary outcomes and why are events like this held for a questionable drug?

Why are we constantly becoming the laughing stock as a nation?
@PrinSciAdvGoI It is good that DRDO is working on something but that itself is not a proof of efficacy. Why don't we wait until the results are published in a peer reviewed journal?

Why this premature celebration of a drug with no clinically significant evidence that it is helpful?
Mar 4, 2021 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
A voyage of self-discovery! Image "God did it!" Image
Jan 14, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A vaccine or a drug does not automatically become safe just because it was produced or manufactured in a particular country.

A vaccine or a drug should not be given special exemptions from rigourous testing just because it was produced or manufactured in a particular country. Transparency, honesty and clarity about the trials/study are of paramount importance when it comes to science communication and dissemination of scientific information to general public.

Something that's clearly lacking from the press releases and statements of ICMR/Indian Govt
Jan 14, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
This is a thread on statistics in science: 1/7 (via @LogicofScience)

Basic Statistics Part 1: The Law of Large Numbers thelogicofscience.com/2015/01/28/bas…

#Science #Statistics Basic Statistics Part 2: Correlation vs. Causation

thelogicofscience.com/2015/01/28/bas… (2/7)
Jan 8, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
When you find a doctor saying "i respect all systems of medicine" that just means he/she doesn't understand what evidence based medicine is. They may be genuinely humble, may have best of the intentions but unfortunately, most likely DO NOT understand the scientific methodology! Humility is indeed great. But when humility, unintentionally is a result of not knowing what you don't know or not knowing something you are expected to know as a part of your profession which in turn gives unintentional promotion or platform to pseudoscience is a genuine concern
Dec 27, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If mere existence of a 'RCT' is the sole benchmark for calling something 'evidence', entirely ignoring the quality of the study then ANY treatment promoted by the pseudoscience lobby can be recommended by that logic. We can find a shoddy RCT somewhere! No. We aren't against Yoga. Yoga sans all the woo, hype, mysticism, supernatural claims, and the accompanying pseudoscience would probably be good as a part of healthy lifestyle as exercise when done in 'reasonable limits'.

It is the 'cure for all' claims which we are against.
Dec 26, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Does anyone else feel that this tweet from Chief Scientist of WHO is borderline problematic and adds more more fuel to the pseudoscience industry?

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@EdzardErnst A link claiming the effectives of 'Yoga' improving 'all parameters' is shared. But the link doesn't give access to the full study or paper as far as we can see. Has it undergone peer review and critical appraisal? We are unsure.
Sep 9, 2020 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
A look at some of the principles of critical thinking:

(A thread with video links)


#CriticalThinking The Burden of Proof: Makers of supernatural claims have an inescapable burden of proof.



#CriticalThinking
Jul 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We don't know who needs to hear this but title of a study is not the evidence in itself. We don't know who needs to hear this but a study merely mentioned in nlm.nih website is not the evidence for anything.
May 18, 2020 • 17 tweets • 8 min read
"The vast majority of people will get their science news from online news site articles, and rarely delve into the research that the article is based on. This graphic looks at the different factors that can contribute towards ‘bad’ science".

Source: bit.ly/3dQgNzK Image 7 ways to identify pseudoscience: Image