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As Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” For everything else, there is an inherent degree of uncertainty. We don’t often come face to face with quantitative probabilities in our everyday life, save for one …
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The Houston doctor Stanislaw Burzynski has been using an unproven cancer cure, “antineoplastons,” for decades, but despite its lack of proven anticancer activity, he has still not been shut down. Here is a primer for skeptics on his career and claims.
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This is a characteristic that they share with many quacks. Cancer quack Stanislaw Burzynski comes to mind. In the mid-1970s, he thought that he had discovered the key to curing cancer, something he called antineoplastons. (ANPs don't appear to work.) https://t.co/hkoMVeJh5q
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The spread of misinformation seems to intensify with each passing week. From social media to cable news to popular podcasts (yes, Joe Rogan, I mean you), science-free bunk is everywhere. And it is doing tangible harm – to public health, public discourse, and public trust. How did we get here and …
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Infodemic: How the Hell Did It Get This Bad? https://t.co/ZFdl8uSg73 via @skeptinquirer @center4inquiry This Thursday! Yep, gonna talk polarization, ideology, and impact of celebrity noise (that's you #JoeRogan, #AaronRodgers, et al.).
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Mashup Score: 0Sodom Meteor Strike Claims Should Be Taken with a Pillar of Salt | Skeptical Inquirer - 2 year(s) ago
On September 20, 2021, the open access journal Scientific Reports posted a paper titled “A Tunguska Sized Airburst Destroyed Tall el-Hammam a Middle Bronze Age City in the Jordan Valley Near the Dead Sea” (Bunch et al. 2021). The paper cited the Bible as possibly containing a written record of t …
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Sodom Meteor Strike Claims Should Be Taken with a Pillar of Salt https://t.co/Xccygyqou8 via @skeptinquirer & @MarkBoslough
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Mashup Score: 4The Nobel Disease: When Intelligence Fails to Protect against Irrationality | Skeptical Inquirer - 2 year(s) ago
No scientific award is more coveted than the Nobel Prize. In the eyes of the public, this prize, especially in the three traditional science categories of chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine, is virtually synonymous with scientific brilliance. At the same time, the stories of the more …
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next time a brilliant scientist used to back idea that covid is no big deal, ivermectin is a cure, or climate change is overhyped...includes the inventor of the PCR who ardently believed HIV didnt cause AIDS. brilliance doesnt always prevent stupidity https://t.co/aNkDerBPOD
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Mashup Score: 1Teach Skills, Not Facts | Skeptical Inquirer - 2 year(s) ago
The moment is burned into my brain like a flashbulb memory: I was teaching Introduction to Biology, a general education class for students not majoring in science. It was near the end of the semester, and, having just covered basic genetics, I was lecturing on the stages of mitosis. My students …
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Teach Skills, Not Facts https://t.co/QgrVAfyROf via @skeptinquirer & @Thinkingpowers
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Mashup Score: 0Living with Uncertainty | Skeptical Inquirer - 3 year(s) ago
Uncertainty is uncomfortable. It is only natural to want certainty. It is more comfortable to be certain and wrong than to be uncertain. Like anyone else, I would like to be comfortable, but I think truth matters. I’d rather be uncertain than wrong; wouldn’t you? As Voltaire said, “Uncertainty …
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Living with Uncertainty https://t.co/1frUnFxHq5 via @skeptinquirer & @HHSkepDoc
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I trust that I need not persuade readers of Skeptical Inquirer that in today’s world of post-truth, alternative facts, and rampant pseudoscience, critical thinking—reasoning that helps to compensate for our biases—is needed now more than ever.
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Teaching Skepticism: How Early Can We Begin? https://t.co/uCpfYpGocQ via @SkeptInquirer & late Prof #ScottLilienfeld
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Mashup Score: 1Skeptical Inquirer Presents | Skeptical Inquirer - 3 year(s) ago
Flattening the Curve of the Infodemic Now more than ever, people need to hear from the voices of reason, science, and skepticism, but too often they are drowned out by the noise of misinformation, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories, especially online. That’s why Skeptical Inquirer, the …
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Soon: Talking to the wonderful @center4inquiry community! "Debunking Works!" https://t.co/mY01MRGmZA @SkeptInquirer Warm up: Our infographic on evidence-based strategies to fight #misinformation... https://t.co/UacvCTElqX
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Mashup Score: 5How Not to Do Science | Skeptical Inquirer - 4 year(s) ago
According to research methodologist R. Barker Bausell, “CAM [complementary and alternative medicine] therapists simply do not value (and most, in my experience, do not understand) the scientific process.” They have seen their patients improve, and that’s all the “evidence” they think they need. …
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RT @jonathanstea: A Lesson on How Not to Do Science By @HHSkepDoc https://t.co/C6A3wUsNlz Some examples of what not to do: - Test somethi…
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Problematic Perceptions of Probability of Precipitation https://t.co/Dm78sR3dcu via @skeptinquirer & @AdaMcVean