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A new peer-reviewed study, published today in Science Advances, suggests that YouTube’s 2019 update worked.
Rumours that the disaster was orchestrated by elites with a laser have been seen by millions.
Four members of a Bradenton, Fla., family face years in prison for selling a toxic bleach solution as a “miracle” medical cure.
...the paper draws five conclusions: (1) It is not analytical thinking per se, but analytical thinking directed to evaluating the truth that safeguards us from believing or spreading fake news. (2) While psychological factors can distract us from exercising analytical thinking and they can also distract us in exercising analytical thinking. (3) Whether a psychological factor functions as a distractor from analytical thinking or in analytical thinking may depend on contextual factors. (4) Measurements of analytical thinking may not indicate vulnerability to believing or spreading fake news. (5) The relevance of motivated reasoning to our tendency to believe fake news should not yet be dismissed.
The family, defending itself in the trial, declined to provide an opening statement.
This book — written by "Anonymous", edited by Children's Health Defense lawyer Mary Holland and Children's Health Defense Publisher Liaison and Thinking Moms’ Revolution co-founder Zoey O’Toole,
House Republicans used an oversight hearing to accuse former NIH officials Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins of complicity in the COVID pandemic. The loser in this cabaret is science.
Members of Michael Protzman’s conspiracy cult abandoned their families and spent their life savings to follow him to Trump rallies around the country.
“Right up until the very end, she believed in what she saw and she wanted to help other people who had experienced something similar,” Claudia Ackley’s partner said.
Starring : Dr Peter Hotez and Dr Michael Mann
Podcast including discussion of ways to deal with RFKJr nonsense by journalists; plus a segment with Paul Offit on the history and future of vaccine disinformation
Did Bill Gates hatch a convoluted plan to create a demand for anti-malaria drugs he funded by also funding malaria-fighting programs while developing a means to introduce malaria to the United States through genetically modified mosquitoes? No, that's not true: Genetically modified male mosquitoes being tested in the U.S. - the type that don't spread malaria and also don't bite - were not funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Staged arguments with anti-vaccine cranks or other science deniers gets scientists nowhere. Trust me, I tried
Across 16 countries, this research finds consistent cognitive and social predictors of COVID-19 misinformation susceptibility, and shows how accuracy prompts and literacy tips reduce misinformation sharing and how wisdom of crowds can identify false claims cross-culturally.
Lab theory evangelists are convinced the lack of evidence in the Covid origins dossier can only be explained by a conspiracy to withhold it
.... We know the rhetoric – they want to beat up the Big Pharma shills. That all sounds great except the immediate target of their anger, Dr. Hotez, is about as far from a Big Pharma shill as you can get. Dr. Hotez has devoted his career to developing low-cost vaccines, that are open-source....
Anti-establishment pundits are predictably whatabout-ing their way into supporting the pudding brain candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Cold tofu compresses are not recognized by cancer research groups or medical professionals as a safe or effective way to treat brain tumors.
LOCATION, USA — Americans who believe erroneous things about science, distrust and fear the government, and live in a world of conspiracy where every development has a sinister double meaning — but who are sick of having to vote Republican — have been overjoyed by the advent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign.....
Dr Wilson DebunksI And he provides extensive links and support in the Youtube description for each item RFKJr gets wrong.
> > > Hucksters like RFK Jr are skilled at flooding the zone with garbage.... > >
Anti-evolutionism is a quintessential and particularly pernicious type of pseudoscience. Quintessential because it is both common and characterized by many of the classic hallmarks of pseudoscience. Pernicious because it directly aims at undermining both science, and education more broadly, in a ...
A federal jury in the United States has convicted a Canadian man for running a mass-mailing 'psychic' scheme that defrauded victims of more than US$175 million over multiple decades.
This is gonna bit a bit of a rant like the old days of blogging. A few days ago we had anti-vaccine crank and poison pill presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. show up on Joe Rogan’s e…
Last month, Dr. Rashid Buttar, a prominent antivax "integrative medicine" practitioner, died suddenly. Because he hadn't been vaccinated, antivaxxers struggled mightily to reconcile his death with their conspiracy theory about COVID-19 vaccines killing thousands “suddenly.” It turns out, however, that that Dr. Buttar had not been a well man since 2016 and was as much a victim of quackery as his patients had been.
RFK Jr., who is running as a Democrat and is popular with many on the far-right from Peterson to Steve Bannon, also reacted to his interview being taken down.
Do photos show that the craft store chain Hobby Lobby is selling demonic statues? No, that's not true: These images...
Peter Hotez's criticism of Joe Rogan for hosting anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his podcast led to people showing up at his home.
Dr. Wilson read RFKJr's anti-Fauci and anti-vax manifesto, and reviewed it all. It was excruciating, but important for someone to do it.
In the 1960s, credentialed scientists, including anthropologists, hunted for Sasquatch. How did the Bigfoot hoax harm public science?
Sit down with Conspirituality's co-host and author, learn A LOT about what you should not ask wellness to Do For You.
Doctors and medicine save lives, but sometimes a little superstition can help you cope when recovery isn’t guaranteed — kind of like the placebo effect.
Richard Coble issued vaccine waivers to patients in at least three states without examining them. He was exposed by a Nashville TV station that bought a waiver for a Labrador retriever named Charlie