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This article is so full of inaccuracies, false arguments & contradictions, that it would take me hours to debunk them all. Unfortunately people read stuff like this & believe it,
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Please sign the petition led by Dr. Lee, who is President of World Mental Health Coalition & a Yale Professor. It calls for congressional intervention to invoke the #25thAmendment.https://www.salon.com/2020/04/08/yale-psychiatrist-bandy-lee-trump
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There is a concerning amount of misinformation on social media at present, but what is most concerning is seeing easily correctable misinformation spread by overseas commentators about New Zealand’s successful
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Tonight #DeborahBirx stated that models anticipating large-scale transmission of COVID-19 do not match reality on the ground. Our modeling (done by @StephenKissler based on work with @ctedijanto and @yhgrad and
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The @nigerianstat just released ’s unemployment figures for the second quarter of 2020. The last time we got unemployment data was for the third quarter of 2018. Unsurprisingly, unemployment is
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I'm often asked by academics how to use Twitter. Rather than repeat the same stuff on different occasions, I decided to create a thread.This is just my own personal experience
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I've been asked a few times recently about how best to debunk misinformation. We've started work on v2 of the popular (but now outdated) Debunking Handbook, but for now, I
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I lived in #Greece for four years and my youngest son (Άρης) was born there & I feel a deep connection - the φιλοξενία is real! (even if my Greek
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Giving more thought to the *visibility of grief* in our society and media. What is socially “acceptable”, comfortable, what is not, who is allowed to grieve and how. Grief is
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I find this hit-job on @MLevitt_NP2013 unacceptable@lpachter behaves as if he is the arbiter of truth and that he is right and Dr. Levitt is wrongDr. Levitt has made some
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Recurrent #miscarriage: do professionals adhere to their guidelines https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/28/11/2898/628867 #ReCurrentStudy Ping @RebeccaDennehy Identification of barriers for good adherence to a guideline on recurrent #miscarriage
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I want to share what I learned today about a UK-based anti-trans hate group called Our Duty. The purpose of this group is to provide support for parents who want
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While @GovAbbott thought it was appropriate to cram 2K Texans in to First Baptist Church in Dallas yesterday, #COVID19 continued to spread rapidly across the state. Our average positivity rate
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The Government has published its proposed amendments to the Internal Market Bill in order to give effect to the so-called climb down that is intended to placate sufficient Conservative MPs.
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@washingtonpost @RobertKlemko @katemshepherd @mauraewing IMMEDIATELY CHANGE the word “ENGULF” in the title of the article about the Walter Wallace shooting. Why? 1. It is not accurate or ethical 2. It
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Galveston: In 1900, Galveston, population 36,000, was obliterated, making it the site of the worst natural disaster in US history, a sad record it retains to this day. 6,000 to
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