Christopher J. Ferguson

RT @TheFIREorg: UPDATE: @Harvard just filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration after the Department of Homeland Security revoked th…

The @ScienceMagazine article on the "consensus" #socialmedia paper, the absolute lack of consensus it revealed and how it all fell apart: https://t.co/LcLpcS8jC1 TBF, I give the lead author a lot of credit for walking things back and taking responsibility. That's gotta be

US politics may now be at its dumbest.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann

This is absurdly false and just plain stupid. U.S. child mortality has dropped by a factor of about 7 since the U.S. began tracking these statistics in the 1930s. Children today are far more likely to be alive and healthy than they were 100 years ago. https://t.co/gD4RAYrVdx

RT @CharlesCMann: This is absurdly false and just plain stupid. U.S. child mortality has dropped by a factor of about 7 since the U.S. bega…

RT @ZaidJilani: RFK Jr just can’t accept that the reason rates of autism and similar have increased is because of more diagnosis. It’s not…

As AI doomerism begins, it would be helpful for people to take out clear, falsifiable positions now, rather than do the usual confirmation biasy, post-hoc fitting of data to panics that usually happens. What do you expect to see in: 1) 1 year 2) 3 years 3) 5 years 4) 10 years

Ah the problems of the privileged. Meanwhile checking on the genocide in Myanmar…

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

Colleges are using AI name readers to announce students' names during graduation ceremonies. Students scan their phones like they're in a checkout line before an AI voice reads their names. PACE University was seen using the technology during its commencement ceremony. "Our https://t.co/CbqtNFCA5e

TBF mass killers *sometimes* lash onto a whole host of extreme causes. There was an anti semitic killer from the right not long ago. It’s more helpful to look at commonalities between killers (chronic mental health problems, antisocial personality, long term sense of grievance)

Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka

What did y’all think "globalize the intifada" meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? 🧵 It meant this sweet young couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, gunned down at an American Jewish Committee event at the Jewish Museum by radicalized monster Elias Rodriguez, chanting “Free, https://t.co/UWpBw5i3rj

I suspect that Trump's efforts to pull funding from museums and humanities programs are part of an endless pendulum we're stuck in. Anecdotally, I do think *some* museums let themselves get mired into woke nonsense (I remember Jefferson's Monticello being one example). How

RT @fairforall_org: Are phone bans in school a moral panic enacted to ease adult fears rather than improving student welfare? 🗞️In today’s…

Today for @freethinkmedia I talk about the delay of #GrandTheftAutoVI. Could this have an effect on crime? Read to see! https://t.co/6E5oH1k3WQ

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Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein

Industrial agriculture, food science and pharmaceutical medicine have been a disaster for human health.

Article by @DarrenLaur explores the recent false "consensus" paper on social media, how it got "hacked" to support a moral panic, and how it sowed hard feelings rather than clarity: https://t.co/nzQqRUmBZS

Vienna blood is a great series but it funny to seeing everyone worrying over the life of an emperor who was by most accounts a lemon.

The effects sizes here do seem substantial enough. OR around 2.0. Not likely explained by statistical noise. I’m not sure about the explanation though…wouldn’t homes get water from the city not immediately surrounding ground water?

Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD

This new peer-reviewed study shows that living close to a golf course significantly increases the odds of contracting Parkinson Disease. The conclusion is that it is pesticides, most likely from ground water contamination. Let that sink in. This is why MAHA matters so much. T https://t.co/SU6Cze3EJI

New article discusses the recent faux "consensus" paper on #socialmedia, how it got so biased, and why it has (inevitably) just stoked more disagreement (and hard feelings) rather than represent any true "consensus" on much of anything: https://t.co/4x9WCjaw8n

Just a Monday looking up diagrams of penises and vaginas to use for my online class in human sexuality. Can't wait to see what adverts Google sends my way.