Mark Boslough

post from Department of War @DeptofWar OPERATION EPIC FURY

damn they really made Operation Epstein Fury so fucking easy

YouTube video by The Cosmic Summit The Collision of Evidence and Belief ft. Michael Shermer

It will be interesting to see some of this glass of George can track it down. He’s been on the case for at least a month now. youtu.be/KWJNugT8i7U?...

No, Abu Hureyra was a legitimate archaeological excavation in the early 1970s. The CRG found a huge amount of glass in excavated sediments that the leader of the original dig somehow missed. Sadly, their large collection of glass seems to have gone missing. George is trying to find it though.

It’s a pity they had to create their own vanity journal to publish this!

Geosciences Geosciences, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

It was such a promising idea! They had five papers lined up to publish! web.archive.org/web/20230614...

It’s a sad story. MDPI rejected their first attempt at creating their own journal. web.archive.org/web/20230802...

How could we have misrepresented evidence that has never been revealed? Pictures of material with unknown provenance or chain of custody is not legitimate evidence. Dots and lines on paper with no underlying data or methodology does not count either. Show us the actual data!

They tried to publish something in MDPI but it was rejected. I'm not joking.

Stuff just keeps on getting stupider

It's easy to mock people who hold unscientific beliefs about food, chemicals, or medicine. But those fears don't exist in a vacuum. You can't change minds about vaccines, diets, etc. without understanding that those fears have root in distrust in industries that have a history of lying about safety.

I agree with this 100%:

“Taken together, the errors suggest either intentional deception or a research team so enamored of its hypothesis that they disregarded the safeguards of scientific inquiry.”

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Momentum is a vector, a sinking ship has momentum.

Nice way to put it. We can only hope.

Was this punctuation intended?

I've spent an enormous amount of time on this and providing entertainment to others is a side benefit that makes it all worth it! 😀

My fault. I couldn't fit the bottom note into the screen shot. There were two more lines:

[Moderator: minor changes made because our policies preclude attributing responsability (blame) unless supported by publicly available information such as the published author contribution statement.]

Bezos is the enemy. #NoAmazon #NoWholeFoods #NoAmazonFresh #TaxtheOligarchs

ABSOLUTELY second this. HealthRanger is a dangerous quack, at the very least. @aoc.bsky.social distance yourself AS FAR as you can from this guy.

rationalwiki.org/wiki/Natural...

There is a line about this daily occurrence in a Handsome Family song. Do any of my friends know it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRg4...

A Comet Could’ve Caused Rapid Climate Shift Around 12,800 Years Ago Learn more about the Younger Dryas event, an ancient climate change catastrophe that’s typically attributed to glacial meltwater.

Kudos to @discovermag.bsky.social for quickly posting an editor's note on their article about a paper that was just retracted. There were a lot of stories about this article last summer as a consequence of the Comet Research Group's aggressive self promotion. www.discovermagazine.com/a-comet-coul...

@chrisnsimms.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social Yet another Younger Dryas Comet Impact Hypothesis paper bites the dust.

This time because they couldn't tell the difference between marine foraminifera and cosmic impact indicators 🙃

The information equivalent to a microphone screech.

Christopher Moore & James Kennett put far more effort into writing clickbait-worthy news releases than they put into making sure the science is valid.

Why hasn’t Donald Trump sued anyone who has accused him of being a pedophile?

😂

Another hole in the Younger Dryas literature

Who among us hasn't misidentified foraminifera for cosmic impact indicators!

Airburst *and* Younger Dryas, that just sounds like retraction bait!

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...