When people say "The reason you can't trust science is that scientists used to say <thing that turned out to be wrong> but now they say <different thing>", they're actually explaining why science works so well.

🧵If it's not a social contagion, what is it? It astounds me that there are still so many people out there who refuse to believe we're dealing with a social contagion of gender dysphoria. Surely there's never been a more obvious one in all of history./1

2. Why Do People Fall for Anti-Science? ❌ It feels empowering – They think they’ve uncovered “hidden truths” that experts “don’t want you to know.” ❌ People love “evidence” that supports what they already believe. ❌ Science is complex. Conspiracies are easy. 3/10

A perfect cartoon.

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Ben Smith #FlatEarthLogic

1/ What are the 3 biggest studies shaping what we know about autism? They’re called SEED, CHARGE, and SPARK. Each is massive. Each tackles autism from a different angle. Together, they’re changing the science. Let’s break it down.

Several well-designed studies show that COVID vaccination does not affect fertility, but that hasn’t stopped John Campbell making a video claiming the opposite based on an absurd non-peer reviewed paper about birth rates in Czechia. youtu.be/0u7RGguXN9Q

I was plesantly surprised to discover Wikipedia including PubPeer flags:

This is a lie

Huge if true #QuackMcCullough

Powerful yet simple from Steve Kirsch? Kirsch is celebrating the unvaccinated only dying at twice the rate of the vaccinated at the end of 2022 compared to more than 3 times the rate in his reference period. Let have a look. 1/

Dilbert creator Scott Adams has sadly got prostate cancer. After going down a rabbit hole during the pandemic though, he turned to Canadian quack William Makis who (as always) recommended ivermectin and fenbendazole. Which did not work. Now they're in an unseemly row over it. 🧵

Tell me again how Big Pharma's profits dwarf Alt Med.

Perfect!

Interesting Fact of the Day: If Robert Jenrick were to catch 50 fare dodgers a day, recouping £2.90 each time for the taxpayer, it would take him well over 1,000 years to recoup the amount the taxpayer lost when he helped a major Tory donor avoid a £45m tax bill back in 2020.

Trump smacks down reports accusing Elon of regular drug use. Yet the reports about Hunter were "right wing conspiracies"