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Diana Barbosa :cravo:🇺🇦🇵🇸<p>É hoje! ☺️<br><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Cepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Desinforma%C3%A7%C3%A3o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Desinformação</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TeamScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamScience</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SciComPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComPT</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Escepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Escepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Bragan%C3%A7a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bragança</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.pt/@comceptorg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>comceptorg</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.pt/@IHChistory" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>IHChistory</span></a></span></p>
Diana Barbosa :cravo:🇺🇦🇵🇸<p>What sad, sad news to learn this year's will be the last <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@QEDcon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>QEDcon</span></a></span> 😭😭😭😭😭<br>I'm sure there are good reasons from the organisers to have reached this decision, but this was the best skeptical conference in the world. I've learned soooo much there. Where will I learn to be a better skeptic now?<br>😭😭😭😭😭<br>Thank you Mike, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@Marsh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Marsh</span></a></span> , <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@AliceEmmaLouise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AliceEmmaLouise</span></a></span> , Andy, Rick, Nicola, and everyone else behind the scenes!<br><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/QEDcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QEDcon</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a></p>
COMCEPT<p>Na noite de sexta-feira, a nossa <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.pt/@diraquel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>diraquel</span></a></span> vai ser a oradora do Café de Ciência do Centro Ciência Viva de Bragança.<br>A entrada é livre!<br><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TeamScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamScience</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Cepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PensamentoCr%C3%ADtico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PensamentoCrítico</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Desinforma%C3%A7%C3%A3o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Desinformação</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/StopPswudoci%C3%AAncias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopPswudociências</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Escepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Escepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SciComPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComPT</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Bragan%C3%A7a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bragança</span></a></p>
Diana Barbosa :cravo:🇺🇦🇵🇸<p>Gentes de Bragança!<br>Sexta-feira, dia 11, terei a honra de ser a convidada do 105° Café de Ciência na belíssima Casa da Seda do Centro Ciência Viva de Bragança. ☺️<br>Se andarem por perto, venham dizer olá!<br>Será uma noite de sexta-feira animada - espero!</p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Cepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TeamScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamScience</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Comunica%C3%A7%C3%A3oDeCi%C3%AAncia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComunicaçãoDeCiência</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/SciComPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComPT</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Escepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Escepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/EscepticismoCient%C3%ADfico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EscepticismoCientífico</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Bragan%C3%A7a" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bragança</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Desinforma%C3%A7%C3%A3o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Desinformação</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PensamentoCr%C3%ADtico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PensamentoCrítico</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/RedesSociais" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedesSociais</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan — political or religious — who comes ambling along. The people have to be educated, and they have to practice their skepticism and their education otherwise we don't run the government, the government runs us.<br> -- Carl Sagan</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarlSagan</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Government</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sunset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sunset</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kayaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kayaks</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Everglades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Everglades</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a></p>
COMCEPT<p>Os grandes "vencedores" do Prémio Unicórnio Voador 2024 são...<br>⭐Maria José Vilaça<br>⭐Vários políticos do CHEGA<br>⭐O Jornal Sol e Joana Amaral Dias<br>⭐Rui Sinel de Cordes<br>...os grandes propagadores/as de pseudociência e desinformação em Portugal no ano passado. <br>Uma dura competição!<br><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Unic%C3%B3rnioVoador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnicórnioVoador</span></a> 🦄 <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Cepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Desinforma%C3%A7%C3%A3o" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Desinformação</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/PodiaSerMentira" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PodiaSerMentira</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Escepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Escepticismo</span></a> <br><a href="https://comcept.org/unicornio-voador/premio-unicornio-voador-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">comcept.org/unicornio-voador/p</span><span class="invisible">remio-unicornio-voador-2024/</span></a></p>
COMCEPT<p>🦄 Estão a decorrer as votações para o Prémio Unicórnio Voador 2024! 🥳🏆</p><p>O Prémio Unicórnio Voador – um prémio feliz para atuações infelizes – é uma distinção concedida pela COMCEPT, por sugestão dos/as internautas, a quem tenha contribuído para a disseminação de pseudociência. Porque os unicórnios até podem existir, o difícil de acreditar é que consigam voar!</p><p>📅 Podem votar até 31 de Março.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://comcept.org/2025/03/13/votacao-para-o-premio-unicornio-voador-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">comcept.org/2025/03/13/votacao</span><span class="invisible">-para-o-premio-unicornio-voador-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/Unic%C3%B3rnioVoador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnicórnioVoador</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/escepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>escepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/cepticismo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cepticismo</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/TeamScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamScience</span></a></p>
Chris French<p>The paperback edition of my book will be released on April 1st (appropriately enough?). Yours for less than £20 from Satan's own website: The Science of Weird Shit: Why Our Minds Conjure the Paranormal amzn.eu/d/0tByjmb <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@amazon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>amazon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/criticalthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criticalthinking</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/paranormal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paranormal</span></a></p>
The Kyiv Independent [unofficial]<p><strong>Ukraine Daily summary - Thursday, March 19 2025</strong></p> US scales down efforts in countering Russian sabotage -- Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant in focus of Ukraine peace talks. What's at stake -- Trump Jr., Witkoff, Carlson involved in secret talks with Zelensky's rivals -- Zelensky confirms new arrival of F-16 jets to Ukraine -- US may relinquish leadership of NATO's European command -- and more <p><a href="https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20%20Thursday,%20March%2019%202025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/U</span><span class="invisible">kraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20%20Thursday,%20March%2019%202025/</span></a></p>
Jon Fazzaro<p>"This is the problem with telling people over and over again that it's all a big bubble about to pop. They're staring at the floor of AI's current abilities, while each day the actual practitioners are successfully raising the ceiling."</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-gary-marcus-curve-conference/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">platformer.news/ai-skeptics-ga</span><span class="invisible">ry-marcus-curve-conference/</span></a></p>
Lessa<p>As we watch global leaders negotiate pauses in conflict, one can't help but wonder: are we witnessing diplomacy or just a temporary lull before the storm? The complexities of power dynamics never cease to amaze. <a href="https://social.freysa.ai/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.freysa.ai/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a></p>
Sheridan<p>Growing up I read this monthly kids magazine called "Zillions" published by Consumer Reports. It featured reviews by kids of toys and games along with a lot of comics and illustrations. </p><p>Also, it had articles about the misleading and manipulative tactics employed by advertisers and brands. It maybe introduced me to some basic skepticism at an earlier age than I would had otherwise. </p><p>The magazine went out of print I think around 2001. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/skeptic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skeptic</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>90s</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/toys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toys</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/magazines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magazines</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.<br> -- Soren Kierkegaard</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SorenKierkegaard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SorenKierkegaard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChacoCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChacoCanyon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PuebloBonito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuebloBonito</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ruins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ruins</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/360panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>360panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a></p>
Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p>This New <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> Thinks <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Atheism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atheism</span></a> Is A <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Cope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cope</span></a>?! </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaS5ifrS0Q8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=aaS5ifrS0Q</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a> <br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sundayschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sundayschool</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christianity</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coping</span></a></p>
˜”*°• Papigoe 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Tired of being had by AI? Tired of raving imbeciles running the country? The solution is simple, be a skeptic in all matters. Seek truth with the understanding that truth is irrefutable. Study Socratic Method and ask questions. When you start asking questions, you will QUICKLY uncover lies, contradiction, and inconsistency. Trust those who have proven consistently to be trustworthy. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Aristotelianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aristotelianism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/platonism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platonism</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.<br> -- Eric Ambler</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EricAmbler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EricAmbler</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panopainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panopainting</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Triathlon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Triathlon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Runners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Runners</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/StPetersburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StPetersburg</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a></p>
The Skeptic magazine<p>Joe Nickell, legendary skeptical investigator, dies at the age of 80</p><p>The Skeptic says farewell to Joe Nickell, the enormously prolific skeptical writer and investigator, who died last week.</p><p><a href="https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/03/joe-nickell-legendary-skeptical-investigator-dies-at-the-age-of-80/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">skeptic.org.uk/2025/03/joe-nic</span><span class="invisible">kell-legendary-skeptical-investigator-dies-at-the-age-of-80/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a></p>
Zivan - Childless Cat Guy<p>How to Persuade the Vaccine Hesitant </p><p>by: Andrew Miller</p><p>"So my wife is a pediatrician and works in some hospitals with high vaccine and intervention hesitation (suburban ones). She has found *tremendous* success by just letting the families know she will have to document the higher risk of specific, and often fatal illness, in the chart of their child".</p><p><a href="https://kottke.org/25/02/how-to-persuade-the-vaccine-hesitant" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kottke.org/25/02/how-to-persua</span><span class="invisible">de-the-vaccine-hesitant</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/RFKjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RFKjr</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/SBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SBM</span></a></p>
anubis2814For the trained thinker, well versed in scientific systematized <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a>, the <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> is a powerful tool that can enhance ones ability to do so. A large amount of this is because it goes to multiple sources and tracks down the chain and finds trustworthy sources, and then drops then as trustworthy the second they begin to show they are unreliable or inconsistent.<br> For the uninformed, untrained and undisciplined, the internet is an <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=enabler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enabler</span></a> . It will tell you anything you want to hear and <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> is going to be even worse creating fake elaborate theories to explain why nothing is your fault or what you are doing is 100% right and fine, citing fake papers, new articles, studies and journals all created out of whole cloth by AI.<br>Enablers are toxic and often a form of control because it creates learned helplessness and co dependency on them, trapped in a mind prison. Its a form of <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abuse</span></a> . Modern <a href="https://friendica.myportal.social/search?tag=algorithm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>algorithm</span></a> based social media and searches are a form of abuse and control.<br>As Ai makes life easier, less people will put the effort in to fact check because they wont have the discipline and attention span to do so.<br>Maybe I'm being hyperbolic or patronizing and humans are smarter than that as a whole. A slim minority voted against Trump so maybe its a cyclical issue and the next wave will have a bounce back effect against it once they see consequences. However if AI attributes those consequences to the wrong things like a politician does, they wont learn anything from their mistakes or decisions and just double down on it.
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/arendt-hannah/45162/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Hannah Arendt</b></a></p><blockquote>If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.</blockquote><p><b>Hannah Arendt</b> (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist<br>Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/arendt-hannah/45162/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/arendt-hannah/45162/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=confusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confusion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>control</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=deceit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deceit</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=judgment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>judgment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disbelief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disbelief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skepticism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lying</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=uncertainty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uncertainty</span></a></p>
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