TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png— Adam Gurri (@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com) November 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Category: Skeptic
The War on Science
Shaun reads The War on Science so you don’t have to.
(more…)Brothers in Fraudulence
Bret and Eric Weinstein – Brothers in Fraudulence:
(more…)UFOs
UFOs – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:
(more…)Crackpots
@acollierastro – physics crackpots: a ‘theory’
(more…)798.00 EUR Network Switch
Why the Lab Leak Hypothesis is so Controversial
Why the Lab Leak Hypothesis is so Controversial (There’s No Evidence!)
(more…)Consensus
(more…)There's a disconnect around the concept of "consensus" in science. People say: science would never advance if we trusted consensus.
— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) January 21, 2021
The point is: consensus is the best info experts have. If you're outside the field, take it. Because WITHIN the field, we challenge it constantly.
Ball Tazing
Did a White Supremacist Taze Himself to Death Last Week?
(more…)Combating Nonsense
(more…)Also I will never forgive the Republican Party for forcing me (and everyone) to combat nonsense like this rather than spending our time doing interesting and creative work. The human cost is immeasurable, both psychologically and tangibly.
— Sean Carroll (@seanmcarroll) October 15, 2020