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A thread with links to the various other threads on different topics: Alt med: xitter.cf/desisciencepage/status… Evidence/ScienceVsPseudoscience: xitter.cf/desisciencepage/status… Logical fallacies: xitter.cf/desisciencepage/status… Crit thinking: xitter.cf/desisciencepage/status… Beliefs: xitter.cf/desisciencepage/status…
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Carl Sagan on skepticism and open mindedness 🧠🧐
🤖 Made with AI
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Carl Sagan on skepticism and open mindedness 🧠🧐
🤖 Made with AI
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Looks familiar 😀
I've been looking for a four leaf clover my entire life and this is the first time I've found one!!!
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We were hibernating a bit! So, what’s happening here?
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“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.” — Carl Sagan
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Hello everyone, please spare a few minutes and let's reminisce about our place in the cosmos. - Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
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If the biologists aren't going to stand up to the pseudoscience being promoted within their own community, it's up to the rest of us to do it.
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The only "agenda" science should serve is the pursuit of an objective description of nature.
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Science isn't "western" or "indigenous" or "colonial" or "decolonized". The only arbiter of truth is experiment, no matter who you are.
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New on the reading list 📖 “Are we alone in the cosmos? The question should have an obvious answer: yes or no. But once you try to find life somewhere else, you realize it is not so straightforward, Welcome to the world of science, which always starts with a (deceptively simple) question” — Alien Earths by @KalteneggerLisa
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If you proclaim yourself a sceptic or a science educator, you can’t pick & choose which dogmas you denounce & ridicule and which ones you defend under the umbrella of kindness.
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If you proclaim yourself a sceptic or a science educator, you can’t pick & choose which dogmas you denounce & ridicule and which ones you defend under the umbrella of kindness.
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We were thrilled to welcome Nobel laureate and member of our Scientific Advisory Board Venki Ramakrishnan to @IsomorphicLabs in London this week. Our Structural Bioinformatics team leader Adrian Stecula led a riveting fireside chat that explored how diverse perspectives drive innovation and the challenges of identifying true breakthroughs amid technological revolutions.
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"Rational criticism compares rival theories with the aim of finding which of them offers the best explanations according to the criteria inherent in the problem." @DavidDeutschOxf, The Fabric of Reality. —Chapter 3: Problem-solving.
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“There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.”
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Introducing AlphaGenome: an AI model to help scientists better understand our DNA – the instruction manual for life 🧬 Researchers can now quickly predict what impact genetic changes could have - helping to generate new hypotheses and drive biological discoveries. ↓
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"Scientific research is the best method we have for obtaining information about ourselves and about our ignorance." — Karl Popper, In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years, Routledge, 1992, p. 79.
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