Can anyone in the Trump cult be so devoid of independent thought that are not embarrassed by this? We're talking denial of high school-level science.https://apnews.com/article/epa-climate-change-censorship-fossil-fuels-1c83071f9eea81e8e31ebad0c4444775?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share
THIS JUST IN! The news media do not report on the causes of death in proportion to what actually kills us!
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THIS is the way risk SHOULD be reported. Bravo Debby Koenig
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Dear Right Wing extremists (that's you, White House)
Understandable you're upset by left-wing violence, but (from the Economist
Spot-on insight, and a challenge to The 1619 Project thinking. CLASS divisions are at the core of what is tearing us all apart. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/o...
Sen/Dr Bill Cassidy, R.LA, OKing RFK Jr for HHS Sec. "I practiced medicine for 30 years...After seeing patients die from vaccine preventable diseases...witnessing the safety monitoring, and the effectiveness of immunization...simply, vaccines save lives.
The deaths to come now are on YOU, Doctor.
Simply saying people are tribal isn't enough. Being true to our tribe is biologically tied to our survival instinct. Any challenge to your tribe, or disloyalty to your tribe, sets off a Fight or Flight response. It's autonomic, WAY more powerful than reason
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@hern.bsky.social Re: Is AI making us dumber. May be interesting to know that the ease of AI appeals directly to the brain's instinct to work no harder than necessary, evolved since the brain uses more calories than any other organ and back in the day food was no sure thing. @eaterofsun.bsky.social
As the mindless paranoid witch hunt against the slightest taint of possible disloyalty to a Dictator continues, it patently makes Americans, including those who voted for him and remain loyal, less safe.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪
Word now offers AI options. For kicks I asked for an essay on the psychology of risk perception, about which I've written a ton, including a book. INFURIATINGLY, many of the AI passages are only thinly different from my own language in the book. How is this not outright copyright theft?
Bravo Seth Borenstein. Phenomenal environmental reporting on the prospective death toll from Trump's rollback of enviro regs to please the fossil fuel industry apnews.com/article/epa-...
@carlzimmer.com thought you might enjoy knowing that I jus saw Airborne for sale in a bookstore in Bucharest!
GO Fish Hippies. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium capacity of more than 62,000 could host more than Bodo's entire population of roughly 50,000.
Sorry, but this is blatant radiophobia. Entire cities were razed!!!??? By nuclear BOMB explosions, not the low doses people got from Chernobyl or Fukushima, which careful study has found caused very few cancer deaths (chernobyl) and NONE (Fukushima).
Important caution about a viral risk warning...but missing a HUGE additional caveat. The "RadRat" calculator assumes mutations that lead to cancer from tiny tiny doses, and a growing number of radiation biologists believe at the lowest doses ionizing radiation is NOT carcinogenic at all.
THIS is the blind bigoted hate of "others" that runs deep in the blood of Donald Trump and Steven Miller and all the despicable people foaming at the mouth, and disregarding basic human decency as well as due process of law, in their lustful targeting of "immigrants. kfor.com/news/local/w...
What alarmist horseshit! And the Times knows it, since they reported that the basis for the "harm" claim came from a study that held the test utensils in boiling oil for 15 MINUTES. Classic example of environmentalists masquerading as scientists to find a new chemical bogeyman.
The Trump administration is quite transparently using anti-semitism as a pretext for authoritarian crackdowns on speech & association, and some Jews are saying "no thanks."
DeLorenzo's tomato pies in the Chambersburg neighborhood of, Trenton NJ.
oppose anything loudly enough and the media is almost forced into it's comfortable knee-jerk "to be balanced we have to include all sides" response. It took years for U.S. environmental journalists (I was one) to lead the way out of that hole on climate change
Tribe, baby, it's all about the safety and protection of being a loyal and well-accepted member of a tribe. Intrinsic human biology
I suggest that we also include in that conversation what government is, and what it does. Sorry Ronald Reagan and everyone on the radical right. Government is NOT the problem. Government, which can be too invasive for sure, does all sorts of things that make modern civilization possible
The Environmental Working Group is, sadly, among the leading naive proponents of the 'naturalistic fallacy', a Back to the Garden of Eden form of environmentalism that blames pretty much all our ills on human civilization in one way or another. Such absolutism does great great harm.
Fearing that government information about vaccines & vaccination policy may be corrupted under an anti-vax health secretary, some public health leaders are exploring how to safeguard the enterprise of vaccinations in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/v...
It's a safe bet that Putin has somne really embarassing compromat on Trump. He fu-king OWNS him. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/w...
congrats!!!! SO important.
Dear Supreme Court. Fu-k You, Part One.
Despite a court order, the White House bars the AP from Oval Office event apnews.com/live/donald-... apnews.com/live/donald-...
Yes Alan @alanlevinovitz.bsky.social wrote a book on the Naturalistic Fallacy and comments rightly on it's impact on food. But that heuristic is SO much broader...how about fear of "plastics" (not natural), "chemicals" (not the ones on food) fear of nuclear radiation but not the sun. Needs mention?
