Science & Society

Conspiracy Or Self-Deception, Higher Apes At Crossroad Facing World War III

Trigger Warning [general trigger warning]: My analysis of the current situation is deeply concerning, but there is some hope. As an autistic abnormal of that kind, I try perfecting consistency in my interpretations, insisting on self-critical scientific me ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Apr 7 2018 - 9:10pm

Ben Shapiro, Loves Facts But Never Did This Math

B en Shapiro and others often cite a UCLA study which claimed that 45% of transwomen try to commit suicide to “prove” that transgender people are mentally ill and that we should not reinforce their “delusion”.    A big problem with their line of reasoning ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 22 2018 - 2:52pm

FDA Asks Public To Pressure Facebook And Twitter To Stop Selling Illegal Opioid Ads

The Justice Department has said that ending the flow of illegal opioids in the U.S. is a top law-enforcement priority but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration doesn't want to wait years for courts to help, they are directly calling on the public to p ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2019 - 7:06pm

March For Science Faces An Existential Threat- From Within

March For Science, an offshoot of Women's March, gave itself a positive name in 2017 but its motivations were not about science at all. It was about social authoritarianism and promoting a political agenda. And at the top of that agenda was being anti ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 11 2018 - 1:37pm

Copy / Paste / Publish: Fake Doomsday- April 23- Astronomically Absurd Story Shared Virally By Journalists Including Fox News

Nobody who ran this story even bothered to glance at a sky chart. The false claim is that the sun, moon and Jupiter will all be in Virgo on April 23. So what you might say? Well the end of the world apparently?! But actually none of them will be in that c ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 13 2018 - 12:49am

IARC Is Disconnected From Reality- That's Why Its Next Director Shouldn't Be An Epidemiologist

If you read corporate media journalism articles about epidemiology in the United States, you are not wrong for distrusting science more than ever. Using nothing more than statistics, every week some new trace chemical is an "endocrine disruptor", ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 13 2018 - 10:44am

Mass Hysteria: Are You One Of 10,000s Celebrating Surviving End Of World?- It's Normal To Still Get Panic Attacks For Weeks

This is another of my posts to help victims of fake doomsdays. For the last three weeks we've had constant PM's and comments on Doomsday Debunked as a result of a viral hoax that pranked probably hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Many o ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 19 2018 - 10:25pm

Defining Man and Woman In The Age of Transgender Self ID Absolutism.

T ransgender activism must not prevent people from using their common everyday senses to tell who is who within reason.   We now live in a world where someone can insist that they are a transgender woman with their ID changed.  Yet insist that if any imag ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 24 2018 - 8:08am

The T-Index: More Meaningful Metrics For Scientists

Academics direly need objective, meaningful metrics to judge the impact their publications have on their field of expertise. Nowadays any regular Joe will be able to show many authored papers in their CV, and it will be impossible to objectively assess the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 24 2018 - 5:21am

Youtubers Earn $1 Million A Year (Estimate) For Doomsday Videos- Teens Panic And Become Suicidal- Time To End Ad Support

These channels specialize in uploading evidence of 'Nibiru', a modern myth, a planet that supposedly is about to hit Earth or fly past, always in the near future. This will seem absurd to you if you have a decent scientific background, but these ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 25 2018 - 7:01pm