In case anyone thinks "alternative" medicine is harmless: this guy, a real doctor, killed his wife by insisting she use lethal doses of selenium, in addition to "herbal supplements", while inexplicably (to me) denying her actual diagnosis.
Oh lord, apparently Hillary Cass has bought into the conspiracy theory that "sissy hypno porn is turning the kids trans!" It's absolutely infuriating and naked bigotry that anyone pretends she is a neutral, honest, or scientific researcher. I am going to bet within the year that she will blame either George Soros or Bill Gates for the transes, or come out as an anti-vaxxer.
Given the trash from Pamela Paul in the NY Times the other day, it's worth upping this again. From @juliaseranolast May, debunking Paul's word salad months before it was written.
Note how none of these meticulous examinations of the science ever make it into the NY Times.
Dr Russell Barclay: ADHD & Lack of Play - Further Refutations of Jordan Peterson
"such a position has no scientific standing, is worse than wrong, and is morally offensive given the voluminous research on the neurodevelopment and genetic nature of ADHD"
They're now disguising this warmed-over, reductionist, cod-psychology bullshit as 'colours' to flog the same tired old shite to a new generation of clueless HR managers.
I'm a cis, straight, white male. I've never experienced any sort of discrimination that I'm aware of. But I know when not to volunteer for it.
Don't give anyone an excuse to not put you on a project because they already have enough "blue" people.
#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#FossilFuels#Economics#PseudoScience: "Financial institutions often did not understand the models they were using to predict the economic cost of climate change and were underestimating the risks of temperature rises, research led by a professional body of actuaries shows.
Many of the results emerging from the models were “implausible,” with a serious “disconnect” between climate scientists, economists, the people building the models and the financial institutions using them, a report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the University of Exeter finds.
Companies are increasingly required to report on the climate-related risks they face, using mathematical models to estimate how resilient their assets and businesses might be at different levels of warming."
"Paper #books for non-fiction which pile nicely on my coffee table until I return them to the library after receiving two overdue notices, ebooks for fiction, both for audiobooks but no charts or diagrams, podcasts but only snarky takedowns of #pseudoscience and #rollerderby rules explanations, videos bookmarked but never watched"
How Scientists Meghnad Saha, J.V. Narlikar Rubbished Claim of Vedic Roots of Modern Science
“If superior knowledge in astronomy, aeronautical engineering, etc., is available in the ancient texts in Sanskrit, why isn’t the ISRO using them? Can (S. Somanath) show one piece of technology or theory that ISRO has taken from the Vedas and applied to make a rocket or a satellite?”
I would have called it impossible. Health cultists almost never get criminal penalties. Homeopaths and acupuncturists are still free. I guess the difference is that they only occasionally (unintentionally) harm people, where injecting bleach is just too obviously and literally poisoning your patients.
Good news, though: these people are now convicted criminals.
#Bigfoot (also known as Chewbacca Sasquatch) is a mythical creature alleged by some to live in remote North American forests in the Pacific Northwest. As there is zero real evidence for the existence of Bigfoot, the study of the "beast" is considered to be a #pseudoscience. Bigfoot is also one of the more famous examples of #cryptozoology.
Bigfoot is sometimes described as a large, hairy, bipedal hominid creature, and many believe that this animal, or its close relatives, may be found around the world under different regional names, such as the #Yeti of Tibet and Nepal.
The most famous sighting is the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film, which shows a hairy bipedal figure walking away from the camera.
Great write-up by @annaleen on the modern history of the pseudoscience of "brainwashing" and how it has been (/tried to be) used for mostly nefarious ends.
We can say this "psychopolitics" is part and parcel of what the great political scientist Richard Hofstadter termed the "paranoid style in American politics".
Awesome to see a mention of Liang Qichao and how his term "xinao" (wash-brain) which meant modernization was usurped and became a negative connotation. He was one of the great early reformers who wanted to modernize Chinese philosophy by seeking a radical break from Confucianism. Pankaj Mishra's "From the ruins of empire" does a great job of his intellectual response to western imperialism in remaking Asia.
First time also hearing/reading about "stochastic terrorism".
A random study of predictability of non-linear, randomized, non-deterministric and chaotic systems under consideration of external influencing factors.