For example, here's the medical school at the University of British Columbia, teaching their students information that was 👉known to be incorrect before their parents were even born👈

Anyone claiming these failures *don't* represent norms needs to explain what they're personally doing to fix them.

The deets in the ALT text 🥇

People who can’t comprehend that all that tape and the increased distance and air volume might affect the results…
Yes it is “mind-blowingly stupid”

Please use every opportunity to put this in front of people being pressured to let EBM/GRADE and "evidence synthesis" gatekeep and rent-seek their way into power over science.

Mind-blowingly stupid, shielded from retraction, and impacting guidance made by EBM cargo cultists today.

#MedSky #SciSky

Thank you for sharing.
It should not surprise anyone that dehumanisation—whether driven by AI greed or “efficiency”—harms us all.

A masterful essay worth everyone’s time.

NEW: It appears Senate Dems have enough votes for cloture with Jacky Rosen flipping to a yes vote. Rand Paul voted no. Kaine, Rosen, Fetterman, Shaheen, Hassen, King, Durbin, Cortez-Masto are the dems yes votes.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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This is good, and should actually make us feel better.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson temporarily blocked a ruling that required Trump to fully fund SNAP because she’s playing chess, not checkers. She sent it back to the lower courts for a reason. 👀

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.

But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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Do you have any insights to what are the policy differences in Quebec City in particular? And of course Montreal, Ottawa, all of which are much better than most of Ontario on that chart.
Thanks for reminding everyone of this, and for caring.

Society expects schools to fill in the gaps where our social safety net is failing families.

Food. Clothing. Health, Vision, and Dental Care. Mental health. Transportation. Trauma recovery.

The holes in the safety net keep getting bigger, and our resources are dwindling.

Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.

The jury acquits the DC Subway Sandwich Slugger. 😂
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I think C-3PO as The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci is the epitome of this better not awaken anything in me.

Kenny from South Park in Still life with Oranges by Paul Gauguin.

Matthew Yglesias & @mattygle.... 6h S ... Come on SARAH FRIAR OPENAI CFO OpenAI Wants Federal Backstop for New Investments Sarah Friar, the CFO of OpenAl, says the company wants a federal guarantee to make it easier to finance massive investments in Al chips for data centers. Friar spoke at WSJ's Tech Live event in California. Photo: Nikki Ritcher for WSJ By Wall Street Journal 2 hours ago + 2:09

OpenAI has lost the crucial “dunce” vote.

Drug prohibition and criminalization of drug use have never worked in all of human history. Your wrong opinion on that subject just makes you look as uneducated as you are.

Glad to hear it.

Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Thanks for this.
We should all be embarrassed and ashamed of our government for copycatting these policies.

Here's the graph

“As a New Yorker, I’m
Not handsy, I’m Italian…”

“As a New Yorker, I’m a MAGA, as a New Yorker, I’m an undocumented…wait…”

The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.

He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.

How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?

5 tips for better sleep that you can read on your bright phone at 2AM Sleep is vital to good health but studies find that 1 in 4 Canadian adults don’t get the recommended amount of sleep. So we’ve created this easy to read guide of tips for better sleep (specially desig...

5 tips for better sleep that you can read on your bright phone at 2AM

He might just bury himself in hubris and stupidity tomorrow

q: why did the outfielders raise their arms during this play?

a: according to the ancient scrolls in which the rules of baseball were found, if a ball lands and doesn't bounce that ball is declared god. the players were worshipping god. i doubt there will be a game 7 or any further baseball seasons

Kaposi's Sarcoma, looks like annual data as of April each year: 2014 3 2015 7 2016 5 2017 4 2018 0 2019 0 2020 0 2021 1 2022 3 2023 1 2024 1 2025 27 and that's not a typo

OK here's the original graph, lifted from @1goodtern.bsky.social over on Xitter, where he posts much more frequently. The graph I quote-tweeted was posted by someone else:

If he was competent, he wouldn’t be welcome to be a spokesperson on tv.

Autism charities can portray autistic people as helpless and a burden – our research shows why it matters New research finds that the language and imagery used by autism charities often reinforce stigma instead of challenging it.

“Our recent study shows that the language and images large autism charities use mainly portray autistic people as a problem.”

Large autism charities are all problematic & ineffectual. Give instead to small, Autistic-led charities like ours.

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