“A critic’s worst sin is to go beyond the facts and the available evidence.”
— Committee for Skeptical Inquiry founding member Ray Hyman

He’s leaning here on one of the dumbest sentiments in our culture: that it’s fine (or even praiseworthy) for powerful white dudes to fly into a rage at work

I can hardly recommend smoking as a calming strategy today, but otherwise this is fairly universal good advice: **don’t do stuff while you are losing your cool.**

Don’t shoot your dog. Don’t make decisions. Don’t respond to that email!

People who *do* should not be in charge.

Thought I would re-introduce myself.

Hi, I'm Emily. My goal is to make STEM more welcoming for all, particularly girls and women.

Thanks for being here :)

A while ago I was compiling a list of all of the great science communicated through makeup. I need to go back to that!

Dr. Lisa Buckley 🦖🦃🐾🐾 ‘s Bird Glamour is another example!

Don’t be duped by “anti-woke” codswallop—its primary function is to launder the nastiest, ugliest far right beliefs into mainstream discourse. If you think some lefty beeswax is irritating or gets carried away, just make that case on the merits. Don’t get into bed with the devil.

These folks are new to me (so I can’t yet endorse), but old school skeptics should again take note of the demographics of the people doing this work in 2024:

I haven’t watched this Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 discussion yet, but I very much like that other skeptical types are choosing to boost and talk about it. “Hey, good job, look at this” is the first small step—not often taken nowadays—in leveling the asymmetric misinformation playing field.

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Tom Thomson
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And as a precarious academic at a public university, I cannot emphasize how much buying a coffee helps me out and motivates me to create content for the public in my limited free time

All coffees very much appreciated!

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