Carl (He/Him)
Stephen Sekulahttps://apnews.com/article/kennedy-cdc-acip-vaccines-3790c89f45b6314c5c7b686db0e3a8f9
RFK Jr ousts key vaccine advisory group.
RFK Jr. ousts ACIP group that advises CDC on vaccines
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines. He is pledging to replace them with his own picks. The 17-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices had been in a state of flux since Kennedy took over. He recently took the unusual step of changing COVID-19 recommendations without first consulting the panel. Kennedy says the committee members had too many conflicts of interest.
bearsongSo, one of my favorite silly #pseudoScience science fiction notions is that time travel has been discovered many times by human engineers.
But, the experimenters have only been able to move along the time axis, with space defined relatively by the gravitational influence of the sun and the galaxy, not the Earth.
This results in time travellers occasionally popping into regions of exceedingly empty space, where the earth was when they time jumped, and no means of surviving nor returning.
#sciFi
But, the experimenters have only been able to move along the time axis, with space defined relatively by the gravitational influence of the sun and the galaxy, not the Earth.
This results in time travellers occasionally popping into regions of exceedingly empty space, where the earth was when they time jumped, and no means of surviving nor returning.
#sciFi
RationalWiki@scibooks This is not science. It is #pseudoscience. Behe is a crank repudiated by the colleagues in his own department.
Michael Behe
Dr. Michael J. Behe (1952–) is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He is a prominent advocate of the pseudoscience Intelligent Design, having coined the term irreducible complexity and testified as an expert witness and co-author of the intelligent design textbook that was the subject of the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District litigation. He is a fellow of the Discovery Institute[1] and his work is mentioned various times in the Discovery Institute's Wedge Document.
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. CostaThis fifty year old critique of Chariots of the Gods reads like a 2025 critique of Graham Hancock’s work – ArcheoThoughts
https://archeothoughts.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/this-fifty-year-old-critique-of-chariots-of-the-gods-reads-like-a-2025-critique-of-graham-hancocks-work/
This fifty year old critique of Chariots of the Gods reads like a 2025 critique of Graham Hancock’s work
My colleague Ruth Gruhn, Emerita in our department, recently showed me a critique of Chariots of the Gods? (the title still had its question mark back then) that she published in the journal Calgar…
VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ"Inside the thriving wild-animal markets that could start the next pandemic"
Content warning: pictures of dead animals
The article has a paywall after a good chunk of "free" text. It's not clear to me how much of the many $billions market for these animals is for scams like selling parts for "medicinal properties", but there's clearly a lot. It's another reminder of why pseudoscience needs to be fought.
I'm getting really tired of human greed and stupidity.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01690-z
#animalTrade #wildlifeTrade #animalExploitation #goVegan #zoonosis #zoonoses #coronavirus #birdFlu #pangolin #capitalism #pseudoscience #china
Bob the TravelerCharlotte Fowler Wells, who died OTD in 1901, was an early American popularizer of phrenology, using skull bumps to predict mental traits https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/ghostbusters/?s=mb #travel #NewYorkCity #pseudoscience
Jack (🚫Trump)President Trump is Restoring a "Gold Standard" in Science in America. The order grants a political appointee who has the authority, without consulting scientific experts, to determine when findings need to be “corrected” and to punish non-compliant scientists.
#PseudoScience #MinistryOfScience
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Openi...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Openi...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Opening Scene of 2001 A Space Odyssey
N-gated Hacker News🧠🔄: "Midlife crisis? Nope, just a 'critical window' in your brain's timeline. But first—disable that JavaScript, because who needs modern conveniences to read pseudoscience? 🙄🍪"
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122 #MidlifeCrisis #CriticalWindow #BrainScience #Pseudoscience #JavaScriptDisabling #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2416433122 #MidlifeCrisis #CriticalWindow #BrainScience #Pseudoscience #JavaScriptDisabling #HackerNews #ngated
Deb Nam-KraneMy review of *More Everything Forever* by Adam Becker. Shorter: our tech overlords are actually insane. #AI #technology #pseudoscience #bookstodon