Actually, the unifying theme is a promotion of pseudoscience and bigotry. theguardian.com/environment/20…

🚨 Anti-vax activist will be head of CDC. 🚨 theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…

$1.3 billion defamation verdict stands. reuters.com/legal/appeals-…

Trump says RFK Jr. will investigate the discredited link between vaccines and autism: ‘Somebody has to find out’ nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds Cathleen O'Grady reports Science Magazine science.org/content/articl…

Great to hear Tom holland and Lee Elliot Major agreeing on the importance of Latin and how misguided it was to scrap the Latin Excellence Programme

Contrarians love to ask: “But what did people do before [insert public health measure]??” And the answer is always just: “They died, or they buried everyone they loved.”

Which is most serious in your view? skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-trip…

In other words, just because they harshly criticized your ideas and rejected you because of them does NOT make you a modern day Semmelweis.

Anti-vaxxers: I will rely on my infallible, impenetrable immune system. Also anti-vaxxers: My infallible, impenetrable immune system can be handily defeated by less than 10 nanograms of highly fragmented DNA.

Whoever you see someone invoke Ignaz Semmelweis to defend an "unconventional" scientific idea, you can be pretty sure that the idea is quackery, pseudoscience, crankery, or just bad science. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-semmelweis…

That's what Novus made clear when they went on BBC to debunk *their statistic* being distorted by people. It wasn't refugees nonchalantly going on holiday, to a place they were recently fleeing from. It was people visiting home, decades after fleeing. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

If a Wellness Practicioner tells you it's good to get measles perhaps they aren't really experts on "wellness" at all

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This does seem like an attempt to politically control universities. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate face rape and human trafficking charges in UK theguardian.com/news/2025/may/…

Timothy Caulfield Fame, professional advancement and the feeling of vindication are powerful psychological motivators.

Babak Javid Neil Stone Homeopathy absolutely does harm: - they can be contaminated. - they can have incorrect dosages. - discourages use of real medicine. - wastes money. - dulls critical thinking. debunkingdenialism.com/2018/04/23/fiv…

People who think pro-wrestling is real, but climate change is somhow fake is hilarious.

Debunking Denialism Great article on #spoongate. Thank you. I’ve actually had harassers try to defame and silence me for years for debunking telekinetic spoon bending. From the horse’s mouth on the blog of the #spoongate facilitator, you’ve shown that #spoongate promotes “psychokinesis” (i.e.,