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Anthropologist and Skeptic. Author of https://www.routledge.com/Misanthropology-Science-Pseudoscience-and-the-Study-of-Humanity/Rafferty/p/book/9781032231778

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“Socioeconomic Implications of the Trolley Problem: a Post-Marxist Treatise.”

04.01.2026 15:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well done

03.01.2026 17:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Saw him last year, amazing

23.12.2025 18:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A very good Watson obit here, written, though obviously not published, years before he died.

09.11.2025 13:52 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same fantasies that have been spreading for hundreds of years.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

03.11.2025 13:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is me exactly as well.

13.10.2025 11:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love this quote 💯

11.10.2025 11:51 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Ways to resist fascism. Drawing of a megaphone : once you have properly identified fascist rhetoric, don’t let it go unchallenged. Speak up when you witness attempts to normalize it. Picture of a book titled "resist". Knowledge is power. Learn, read, discuss about fascism and the ways fascist discourses can permeate culture and find its way in everuday conversations. Picture of someone doing a roman salute. Many hands are pointing at him. Laugh at fascists and their ideas. Take every opportunity to subject them to ridicule. The power people give them largely stems from sentimentaalinen of fear and inevitability, but they are all incompetent, insecure cowards. Picture of a button press. Most importantly, get involved in your community. Find roles for yourself and others. You might not topple a fascist government today, but you can find purpose and strength to live to fight another day.

Ways to resist fascism. Drawing of a megaphone : once you have properly identified fascist rhetoric, don’t let it go unchallenged. Speak up when you witness attempts to normalize it. Picture of a book titled "resist". Knowledge is power. Learn, read, discuss about fascism and the ways fascist discourses can permeate culture and find its way in everuday conversations. Picture of someone doing a roman salute. Many hands are pointing at him. Laugh at fascists and their ideas. Take every opportunity to subject them to ridicule. The power people give them largely stems from sentimentaalinen of fear and inevitability, but they are all incompetent, insecure cowards. Picture of a button press. Most importantly, get involved in your community. Find roles for yourself and others. You might not topple a fascist government today, but you can find purpose and strength to live to fight another day.

Ways to resist fascism

07.10.2025 21:20 👍 537 🔁 250 💬 4 📌 4

Nothing’s stopping me besides me.

06.10.2025 10:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

‘There will never be enough computing power to create AGI using machine learning that can do the same [as human cognition], because we’d run out of natural resources long before we'd even get close,’
— @olivia.science

www.ru.nl/en/research/...

06.12.2024 21:19 👍 218 🔁 86 💬 8 📌 13

“Vote purple: we’re just so embarrassed”

05.10.2025 12:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Got x2 vaxed yesterday (flu and covid), woke up at 7 am with a sore arm and did laundry. Trust the science. Vaccines cause clean clothes.

05.10.2025 12:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

04.10.2025 17:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

These fools are going to kill a lot of people.

31.08.2025 17:43 👍 79 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0

You’ll have to chew off the arm.

01.09.2025 12:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This will likely be the pattern, vaccines available in blue states only. Some dems will likely be smug about that, but I suggest they consider sick and dead kids in red states first.

01.09.2025 12:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So, Pre-Crime? And what exact is meant by “Israeli grade ontology”?

01.09.2025 12:48 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Fox News Guest Sparks Outrage With Dystopian Solution For Preventing Mass Shootings

Anything except gun control.

01.09.2025 12:08 👍 1706 🔁 286 💬 133 📌 22
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is definitely coming for your vaccines The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last week's firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.'s war against vaccines. Make no mist

The chaos at the CDC in the wake of last week’s firing of its Director and the resignations of four senior officials is fallout from the latest skirmish in RFK Jr.’s war against vaccines. Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is working hard to take away your vaccines, if he can. Here’s a progress report.

01.09.2025 12:34 👍 341 🔁 144 💬 24 📌 14

“Wellness has come to represent a wonderland free from constraints of scientific scrutiny. The industry flows with pseudoscience & to say it’s lucrative would be an understatement…The term has morphed into dollar signs, drawing us into a never-ending cycle of treating problems we didn’t know we had”

30.08.2025 17:48 👍 233 🔁 66 💬 14 📌 2

Also, right-wing domestic terrorism far outnumbers left-wing. Don't let the right-wingers control the message.

nij.ojp.gov/topics/artic...

31.08.2025 16:35 👍 233 🔁 61 💬 9 📌 1

That’s so much worse than just being a mindless stooge.

31.08.2025 14:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spot on!

30.08.2025 07:18 👍 320 🔁 113 💬 3 📌 0
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Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say "I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

29.08.2025 20:42 👍 11763 🔁 3373 💬 288 📌 186

This is a great read.

#scicomm.

28.08.2025 11:56 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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🦝

23.08.2025 15:15 👍 141 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 4

That was the working title of my last book (but the editor talked me out of it).

20.08.2025 14:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good for her, and for Boston.

19.08.2025 22:04 👍 908 🔁 114 💬 13 📌 3
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Humans think — AI, not so much. Science explains why our brains aren't just fancy computers New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of

@norabar.bsky.social @robertosaezm.bsky.social @jwhoopes2.bsky.social

www.salon.com/2025/04/25/h...

19.08.2025 06:54 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

6 and 11 are pretty tough tho. 4 is probably the most meaningful to me personally.

20.08.2025 13:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0