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This was a disappointing read this morning.
This is where the Mayo Clinic is truly delinquent. It’s one thing to soft peddle claims of making patients feel better. It’s another to misrepresent clinical science. That has negative effects beyond the topic at hand, and demonstrates a lack of dedication to the science of medicine that should be embarrassing for such an institution.
Go read the whole article here: Mayo Clinic Promotes Reiki
Hat tip to Mike @ techdirt for pointing me to the free book that has actual information and not pseudoscience. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by danah boyd.
Oh, and as always, do read Mike’s whole great article.
I stole the title from this very well reasoned and written article.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-key-to-fighting-pseudoscience-isnt-mockery-its-empathy/
I’m referring to the last sentence, but do read the whole article. I learned quite a bit more about octopus brains from P.Z. than I knew before.
Reading Denyse will only make you more ignorant. (although it will get you in better standing with some religions, the ones that want you ignorant of reality)
Like every person on Earth N D Tyson makes massive mistakes when he comments outside his area of expertise. This is an excellent correction that gets the facts correct.
NDT, your an important astrophysicist, but you are neither a good historian or theologian so stop F’ing embarrassing yourself. But I guess I can’t expect much from somebody who helps Joe Rogan infest the world with bigoted misinformation. I guess NDT is looking to become fabulously wealthy off the right wing grifter circuit catering to their bigotry with misinformation. It is sad to see this fate for yet another once admired scientist.
They are anti-science loons who bring unnecessary suffering and death to children.
For reasons laid out in my post from 16 years ago this is a bad idea for your health and safety.
How WD-40 Can Prevent Bugs – LifeSavvy
He’s an ultra-selfish, anti-science, anti-vaccine moron that only comes around when it’s HIS wife and child that nearly die.
Source: Careless selfishness and the harm done to the most vulnerable
Go read the details at:
Although there is much that is very good in the story, the overall framing is one that I see all too often (and that annoys me), namely that it’s “unexpected” that the right would ally with antivaxxers. It’s not unexpected. It never was unexpected. But the mainstream media have long labored under this delusion even though it hasn’t been even remotely true for at least several years, if not much more than a decade.
Source: One more time: The Republican Party is the antivaccine party – RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE
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