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.
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
And the stakes are not small:
“The use of AI is also surveillant. These are ultimately surveillance systems that are being marketed to those who have power over us generally: our employers, governments, border control, etc., to make determinations and predictions that will shape our access to resources and opportunities.”
Anti-vaxxer Aaron Rodgers makes a fool of himself mocking Travis Kelce as 'Mr. Pfizer'
“Aaron Rodgers is a fool. …it's been established for years now.”
“One of the most popular athletes of our time. … Mocking someone who is asking people to get flu and COVID shots that could save lives. This is where we are. It's all so foolish.”
Stop the witch-hunt against vaccinologist Peter Hotez!
Fight for Free Speech and truth in science!
Fascists stalked Hotez at his home on Sunday. He regularly receives antisemitic and antivax death threats. He is publicly vilified by Steve Bannan, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk & RFK Jr.
Why?
*Led efforts to develop a low-cost, patent-free vaccine for COVID-19.
*Public opposes right-wing pseudoscience.
*Calls proponents of anti-vax propaganda neo-fascists
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.
Une lettre ouverte à la médiatrice de Radio France concernant la désinformation chronique de Caroline Goldman, promotrice de la psychanalyse, une #pseudoscience.
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"
A random study of predictability of non-linear, randomized, non-deterministric and chaotic systems under consideration of external influencing factors.
"The first step when confronting a pseudoscientific belief is to not bother arguing it"
This has been my strategy for years, and it's worked pretty well. People with hokum ideas are often frustrated that they get insta-corrected before they get to explain their reasoning, and that makes them more entrenched. Convincing them out of that position often means more listening than talking on my part.
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.