#QUESTION

Wellington Yueh

MdYueh

Simple citoyen, je m’inquiète du populisme scientifique pratiqué par @raoult_didier, entraînant dans son sillage « médias » complotistes, médecins dévoyés et de trop nombreuses personnes mal informées.@ansm, @MinSoliSante il e

Jon 🔬

JonnyMicro

If you think the backlash is bad now, wait until the mass antibody testing starts and it shows more people were exposed and asymptomatic or mild than thought. Doesn’t matter

Vignesh Radhakrishnan

VigneshJourno

#AgriActs wants to "unshackle" farmers from the "clutches" of the mandis. @narendramodi said, “for the first time, small farmers have got an alternative to bargain. The tradition was to sell

emmi

emmibevensee

Machine learning is a quintessential manifestation of what James C Scott wrote about in Seeing Like a State. And i mean that with the same level of nuance around benefits

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

HPluckrose

That most people don't have pragmatic notions of truth. That is, they don't believe things because they think believing those things is useful, but because they think the thing they

Nma Okafor

nmaokafor

I never like to draw attention to myself, so I hardly speak about my career progression...Last year, I got my dream job as a Software Engineer after 3 years of

Alan MacLeod

AlanRMacLeod

Now that democracy has returned, Human Rights Watch boss Ken Roth pretends to have supported it and the MAS all along, despite being a key int'l driver in the fascist

HOPE not hate

hopenothate

NEW REPORT: 47% of Conservative Party members think Islam is a threat to the British way of lifeFor our evidence to the Conservative Party inquiry on racism we polled Tory

Jess Calarco

JessicaCalarco

So, apparently there's a pair of my (clean) underwear in the Lost and Found at my kid's school. And they've been there for the last five days.Which of course raises

ARU

AngliaRuskin

Welcome to our Tuesday Check-in Chat! As usual, it'll run 1-2pm and we'll ask questions in the replies below. Remember: use #ARUchat in your answers! To honour #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, this week

existential crisis

johnmark_andoy

Happy legality to my best friend and soul mate @amhortezuela, I hope you're ready for this. A thread (char) I used to be a silent and introverted kid, but

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Nationwide, the American south is facing the worst harms from coronavirus (as @yvessmith points out, big blue cities get more coverage because that's where the press lives).https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/0

Phil Syrpis

syrpis

Lots of talk again today about @UKLabour's positioning on Brexit. I don't think that finding the right path as complicated as many seem to believe. Thread. 1/19 (sorry it is

Akila 🌑

zakiOcarre

Liste dès question Ton âge ? T’es origine ? Ton pire défaut ? Ta meilleure qualité ? iPhone ou Samsung ? T’es encore à l’école ? Si non pourquoi

Frances Z. Brown

franceszbrown

Big question: How will the coronavirus affect governance and democracy globally? Partial Answer: pleased to share analysis with my @CarnegieEndow colleagues Tom Carothers and @SaskiaBrech , starting to tackle this.

Slight Misplay

slightmisplay

I don’t usually like to contribute to online dogpiles or polarization, but this is bugging me, and I think I know why...(thread)https://twitter.com/justalilnerd/status/1194321462812958722 First, it’s a form of gatekeeping that simply