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It's blue haired women now.

Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism Psychologist and writer’s appearance on Aporia condemned for helping to normalise ‘dangerous, discredited ideas’

Happy to chat with 'race scientists' but thinks the left has gone too far
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

"I did the maths. Extreme racists and anti-racist protestors cancel each other out, so we start from zero.

We then add Whiteys with Vague But Totally Not Racist Grievances (trust me on this) to Some Brown People (disregard the Maori hate preacher) to get a total of....Very Fine People"

I've somewhere between rage, pity and concern that we're heading down that path. bsky.app/profile/nadi...

People who've had an ulcer are also told to lay of NSAIDS.

Voting if you move or live abroad Find out how to vote in UK elections if you move or live abroad, including eligibility, registering to vote and renewing your registration.

I think the last govt changed the eligibilty. I've told Inland Revenue I now live overseas permanently but I was able to re-register on the electoral roll before the last GE.

www.gov.uk/voting-when-...

Antivaxxers are essentially authoritarian crybullies.

All their talk about freedom and how they "only want to have a discussion" actually means "I demand my opinion is respected and amplified on the platform of my choice, without criticism"

Anything less and they whine about being persecuted.

At best this is Cameron's Big Society 2.0. drawing on nostalga for the 1940s, 50s or whenever you were young and stuff worked.

But after more than a decade hollowing out state and voluntary sector capacity, with civil society now hooked on divisive social media algorithms.

Boogie Nights, The Last Temptation of Christ

Where can I find the PPTA report? I couldn't see it on their website.

The Soros/Klaus Schwarb crowd gave it a go. Planning for a tiny bit greener neoliberalism, with a few social concessions to save capitalism from itself and head off popular demands

But the techlords swung firmly behind the fossil fuelled, authoritarian crackdown, burn it all down plan.

Just to show the absurdity of the analysis - Imagine

- 45 studies of looking at Venus through a beer bottle finds evidence of rings around Venus

- 1 study of looking at Venus through a telescope finds no rings

Would you conclude "there is evidence that Venus has rings"?

Quick Test:

- 45 studies of 0.3-20k children over 2-10 years based on interviews without any control yield 20% increased risk
- 1 study based on 2.5m children over 25 years based on medical data shows 10% but, after control against siblings, shows 0% increase

What is the scientific conclusion?

To split off single issue voters who previously leant Democrat and secure them as a loyal component of the MAGA coalition.

To undermine trust generally and specifically in the legitimacy of science/health provision, opening up opportunities for upwards wealth distribution, profit and grift.

Who could have possibly noticed that Prasad was prepared to cultivate antivaxxer lunatics for clout?

It's not as if he consistently produced content exaggerating the significance of adverse events and blocked everyone who challenged him on X while letting antivaxxers run wild in his comments.

I know who the men are but who is the woman standing with them?

It's particularly amusing/appalling how they've decided to work backwards from"we hate like uppity blacks, women and queers" to "empathy is bad actually".

"It's not a question of left and right, it's about right and wrong" as Hannah Alp told me as she advocated for executing Democrats

They think they are the authentic NZ Volk, with common sense kiwi values, which just happens to be expressed via conspiracist, far right ideology imported from the US

Relentless is right.

I'm burnt out. I can't do it any more because of the anxiety. It's my body saying "run away"

It's not healthy to have to be in their headspace and worrying about what they'll do next

Life's too short. And fortunately no-one I really care about has gone down the rabbithole

He fought with the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). Communists who opposed Stalinism and were influenced by Trotsky but disagreed with him about revolutionary strategy.

Flat earthers have entered the chat.

Marxists aren't just talking about people being poor though.

It's also about the economic system promoting individualism and competition vs solidarity, coursening culture etc, etc

It doesn't cause racism but it exacerbates and exploits it. With class struggle as a potential alternative.

Totally agree.

This is incoherent and hypocritical given NZFs stances on supposed plots to undermine NZs sovereignty & foreigners in general

But it won't make a blind bit of difference to his cooker support base, because all their stated values and principles are fig leaves to hide their authoritarianism.

Shot in the Arm Explore vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of COVID-19.

I strongly recommend fine documentary “A Shot in the Arm” on vaccine hesitancy & its (often well-paid) promoters, incl RFK, Jr.
www.pbs.org/video/shot-i...
Watch whole thing, but especially:
34:32-onward RFK, Jr
43:45-50:27 Samoa deaths: he denies/evades involvement, video records contradict.

The demand for a debate is actually a demand that their views be treated as equally valid. Next all counter arguments are treated as inherently invalid/corrupt and then repressed.

We can see this happening through antivax/Maha in relation to psuedoscience and now in universities.

Remembering Charlie Kirk's Greatest Hits

No, mRNA vaccines do not cause “transcriptomic chaos” A review of a recent anti-vaccine preprint

This blog post explains why the study is garbage reeserichardson.blog/2025/07/28/n...

Who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to leave alone with his kids? Experts are calling for a full inquiry into the case, saying questions have to be asked about what agencies knew.

Tom Phillips is dead after a police shooting, and his three children have been found alive. The immediate danger is over. But a larger question lingers: who decided Tom Phillips was safe enough to be left alone with his children - and why?

My story: www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...