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Robert Kennedy Jr: Could he really revolutionise US healthcare? The most powerful public health official in the US is reviled by some medics - but even some of his critics accept that he is bringing drive to healthcare areas that have long been neglected

BBC just published this article from a so-called “health reporter”. Someone should explain this reporter (and BBC) that science is not a matter of opinion. This is one of the most insidious anti-science article I have seen.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Quando as pessoas que confundem democracia com a ditadura do partido mais votado chegam ao poder, não vivemos mais em democracia: vivemos em ditadura.

sem perder qualquer direito ou segurança. É a garantia que quem governa ou que detém o poder político, judicial e militar, não virá punir quem deles discorda e quem contra eles se manifesta de forma não violenta ou fisicamente agressiva.

A esses, aproveito para dizer que isso é uma demonstração clara que não entendem o que é a democracia:
A democracia não é a ditadura do partido ou dos partidos mais votados; a democracia é, sim, exatamente a garantia do direito a ter uma opinião minoritária, a manifestá-la e a lutar por ela

Sou propositadamente agressivo neste post. E sou-o para provocar aquele reflexo tão comum de alguns setores, normalmente populistas, que virão dizer que não estou a respeitar a vontade do povo e que estou a ser antidemocrático.

Ontem, em Portugal, o Chega chegou a líder da oposição. Ontem, 22,3% (mais os que hão de vir da emigração) votaram num partido feito de estúpidos, ignorantes ou mal-intencionados. Votaram, assim, de forma estúpida, ignorante ou mal-intencionada.

GMOs are safe, they will not harm the environment or the health of people, animals or plants.
THIS IS THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS: since 2016 a letter supporting GMOs has been signed by 179 Nobel laureates,
63 of them in Medicine and Physiology.

supportprecisionagriculture.org/nobel-laurea...

I guess that is not a deterrent for Trump.

DeepSeek Debuts with 83 Percent ‘Fail Rate’ in NewsGuard’s Chatbot Red Team Audit The new Chinese AI tool finished 10th out of 11 industry players

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YouTube video by Center for Inquiry When Skeptics Disagree | Steve Novella

A lesson in critical thinking and what it means to be a skeptic
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3z5...

Live updates: Trump picks Mehmet Oz to serve as Medicare and Medicaid services administrator Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

Crackpots and conspiracy lunatics are now in charge of health and science in the USA.
Science is being dismantled, on purpose. Obscurantism is back.
It is a global trend, unfortunately.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"We have been born into an age in which science and reason - indeed truth and reality itself - once again need defending. Don't give into despair. There is something you can do today to fight back against the truth killers."

Read it!
#democracy #disinformation #misinformation

Just going to say again, as a Musk biographer, that you cannot possibly contemplate what a bad person he is. You probably think you have an idea... but you do not have an idea.

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I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.

Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

Saw this in my FB feed. I think “cognitive dissonance” is not even close to describing such thoughts… how should we call it?

Prospect of RFK Jr. as head of HHS panics many in medical science community Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed radical change including scrutinizing long-standing vaccines and slashing staff at research and regulatory agencies

“It’s like having somebody who believes the Earth is flat as head of NASA,” says @pauloffit.bsky.social.
🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy Democracy relies on a shared body of knowledge among citizens, for example trust in elections and reliable knowledge to inform policy-relevant debate.…

It’s worth reading the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disinformation campaigns are undermining democracy. Here’s how we can fight back When people are pervasively disinformed, the very foundations of democracy can end up on shaky ground.

A must read!
theconversation.com/disinformati...

🆕 Blog post: neurodojo.blogspot.com/2024/11/okay...

How RFK Jr. could cause an earthquake for American public health Food additives, pesticides and vaccines are on his “Make America Healthy Again” hit list.

We must have been doing something awfully wrong as science communicators for this to happen
#scicomm

www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

Between the Onion buying Infowars, "X" being abandoned, and the mainstream left realizing the destructive power of disinformation, it feels like something is happening. Maybe this is the beginning of an organized, well-funded, fact-based, entertaining effort to combat conspiracism. And I want in.

Nice to know! I am presently working at the Gulbenkian Foundation

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Definitely, science is under attack:

Trump says Kennedy, a known vaccine sceptic, will help protect Americans from "harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products and food additives"

US election live updates: Trump picks vaccine sceptic RFK Jr for health secretary Donald Trump says Kennedy will help protect Americans from

Brace yourselves! This is going to be a nightmare and a public health problem. And it’s not going to be confined tu the USA.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c0...

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Scientific anti-realism in the news #philsci