#Scientific

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

One of these trajectories is not like the others. Is it Trump's fault? Of course: pandemic response is heavily dependent on presidential leadership, and Trump has been a malign influence

Simone Butera

butera_simone

EPISTEMOLOGY IRL (maybe some $BTC stuff)Epistemology to me is a quite practical field. It's about what we can know and to which degree of certainty.Diff methods to obtain knowledge have

Andrew Freedman

afreedma

[THREAD] The White House today promoted a new lab study on the coronavirus' susceptibility to ultraviolet light, as well as heat and humidity as a reason to think this outbreak

Krishna

Kannan9900

Very interesting hypothesis causally linking hemoglobin metabolism, oxygenation/deoxygenation at the lung and in tissues to Covid-19. So far, no sci. publications on this subject (searched in PUBMED). However, old reviews

David Dowdy

davidwdowdy

Spent some time on my "personal annual review" today, and I thought I'd share my personal "10 keys to success" as a junior/mid-career scientist. Would love for others to add

Gummi Bear

gummibear737

Throughout, the Covid-19 Pandemic, we’ve had scientists willing to stand up for scienceI admire and recognize these brave soulsThey are searching for truth despite a scientific narrative which is not

Dr Duncan Robertson

Dr_D_Robertson

One thing civil servants learn is to write things down. Here is @acadmedsci's 14 July report commissioned by @uksciencechief. For the record. It sets out what was known in July,

Arianna // (Anime Tournament 📌)

Ariluvsanime

Anime Tournament :))- RTs are aloud Obv! -Be nice and thoughtful to others opinions plz!- Have Fun! I’ll be posting more than this but this will be the first 24

Fiona // BLACK LIVES MATTER

Fiona_Butchart

Imagine if you went to the doctors feeling very unwell, in horrific pain and crying uncontrollably. And they told you you were crazy and sent you home.Sounds archaic, doesn't it?

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

On Lawrence Krauss' assertion that science is not systematically racist - a thread1/nhttps://twitter.com/LKrauss1/status/1279201378108182528 1st: let us put aside the multiple serious accusations of sexual harassment and subsequent reti

T. Jayaraman

tjayaraman

@KanitkarT @vnamas @3rdworldnetwork @JMauskar DECODING THE BS ON CARBON NEUTRALITY :Paris Agreement (PA) calls for global emissions and removals of GHGs to be balanced by mid-century. Does NOT ask for

wear a MARSK

grimoire_2020

It’s 5.40pm on Friday in the London HQ of the Department for Health. Prof Chris Whitty (plus several tweets worth of letters after his name) let out a sigh and

Sir Laughing Devil assassin by statistics

LaughingDevil1

It's an interesting question as to if another gov would have done better in the UK. We'll never know of course.And by better I mean quabtiably. Less deaths, less hospitalisations,

Hay Festival

hayfestival

LIVE on @CrowdcastHQ shortly | @AdamRutherford talks How to Argue with a Racist http://crowdcast.io/e/hayfestival_event21 | #ImagineTheWorld Please note: due to high demand, this session is now closed to new registrations.

Mike Coudrey

MichaelCoudrey

THREAD: I am continuously hearing the media push the “fatal arrhythmia due to prolonged QT” narrative concerning hydroxychloroquine & azithromycin, & its also making its rounds from doctors hesitant to

Yana

yana_zu

35 pages in John Gray's "Seven Types of Atheism". "When they declare themselves unbelievers, atheists are invoking an understanding of religion that has been unthinkingly inherited from monotheism".Modern Western atheists,