#lolscience — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lolscience, aggregated by home.social.
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Weird fact of the day: humans can see about an octave
That observation and this table I learned from Milton Mermikede's most recent Gresham lecture "Music of Light & Colour"
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the most fucked up thing you’ve ever seen SO FAR
Blue Cross/Blue Shield want to stop covering anesthesiology drugs beyond a fixed amount of time
during
surgeries?
So if a surgery goes longer than their time allotment, coverage stops on
anaesthesia?!
I mean
I mean
I mean
there’s also the whole “nothing says quality medicine like rushing a surgery team” but
HOLY SHIT YOU MONSTERS
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the most fucked up thing you’ve ever seen SO FAR
Blue Cross/Blue Shield want to stop covering anesthesiology drugs beyond a fixed amount of time
during
surgeries?
So if a surgery goes longer than their time allotment, coverage stops on
anaesthesia?!
I mean
I mean
I mean
there’s also the whole “nothing says quality medicine like rushing a surgery team” but
HOLY SHIT YOU MONSTERS
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the most fucked up thing you’ve ever seen SO FAR
Blue Cross/Blue Shield want to stop covering anesthesiology drugs beyond a fixed amount of time
during
surgeries?
So if a surgery goes longer than their time allotment, coverage stops on
anaesthesia?!
I mean
I mean
I mean
there’s also the whole “nothing says quality medicine like rushing a surgery team” but
HOLY SHIT YOU MONSTERS
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the most fucked up thing you’ve ever seen SO FAR
Blue Cross/Blue Shield want to stop covering anesthesiology drugs beyond a fixed amount of time
during
surgeries?
So if a surgery goes longer than their time allotment, coverage stops on
anaesthesia?!
I mean
I mean
I mean
there’s also the whole “nothing says quality medicine like rushing a surgery team” but
HOLY SHIT YOU MONSTERS
-
the most fucked up thing you’ve ever seen SO FAR
Blue Cross/Blue Shield want to stop covering anesthesiology drugs beyond a fixed amount of time
during
surgeries?
So if a surgery goes longer than their time allotment, coverage stops on
anaesthesia?!
I mean
I mean
I mean
there’s also the whole “nothing says quality medicine like rushing a surgery team” but
HOLY SHIT YOU MONSTERS
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kennedy as trump’s shadow running mate
The last couple of days – basically since Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs Kennedy dropped out of the race and endorsed the Cheeto – the idea that he’s going to be Trump’s shadow running mate, sort of a second and unofficial vice president and/or vice presidential candidate.
I mean, the two obviously work better together, they’re both old white Boomers and similarly detached from any interest in actual reality.
(CCPK was out there saying their administration would ban “chemtrails?” Which aren’t actually things, it’s just seriously antique conspiracy theory? If you want to say you’re gonna break physics to stop water vapour from forming that’s one deeply weird flex.)
If he thinks the Kennedy family name is going to stop people from thinking their whole fascist parade is any less weird, holy shit, have you met the dead bear in Central Park or the chainsawed whale head on top of his car? This doesn’t even get into his disease-promoting vaccine denialism, though I guess that does fit with the whole GOP “Party of Plague” thing they’ve had going for the last few years.
Anyway, I’m no longer the only person thinking that Kennedy will be kind of de facto running as Trump’s VP candidate. Some people are even speculating that he’ll even get swapped out on the ticket, though that seems very unlikely to me – since it’s post-nomination, it does create actual legal issues if Vance stays healthy and doesn’t just quit.
So get out there and make sure your lowest-info white voter family and friends know that just because he’s got Kennedy as a surname does not mean that he is, in any way, actually okay.
Because on so very, very, very many levels – wow, he is not okay.
69 days remain.
(no, I’m not saying it)
[link] #politics #USPol #fascism #lolscience #politics #uspolitics
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Turns out we can prove Dr. Cass had ill intent
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article on how the fundamentalist movement, in the past, committed acts of fraud disguised as science. I talked about how they’d done so for decades, I talked about their intent and their methodologies, and how they have been adopted over time by the right in general.
I then applied this to the Cass Report, the “report” used by the Tory government in Britain to ban most forms of trans medical care and by American rightists to both deny health care and pass laws against trans people. I showed how exactly the same recategorisation and data selection methods were used to de-rate almost every study on youth gender transition, so that they could create a report which claimed there were “few to no high quality” studies on the matter.
I said I didn’t know for sure this was the same sort of ill intent, or that they happened to be doing the same thing as fundamentalists and rightist have been doing for the last many decades. I couldn’t prove that’s what they were doing, I could just demonstrate that it looked awfully, awfully similar, as in, exactly the same.
Whelp, looks like we can prove that ill intent now.
The Cass Report describes Dr. Cass as “a senior clinician with no prior involvement or fixed views in this area.”
This is a lie.
Not only had she met with American politician Ron DeSantis to aid his efforts to ban gender transition, turns out she was recommending the so-called “gender critical” hate screed, Irreversible Damage, which compares gender transition to the Holocaust.
She also, turns out, included studies to argue against trans health care that are not only outdated and fail to meet her own theoretical standards, but which have been out-and-out discredited.
Again: it all comes down to picking the data you want to get the result you want, and that’s exactly what she and her team did.
Talking of the team, some of the other people appointed to work with her on the report were also active in anti-trans/anti-queer politics, including lobbying against ending “conversion therapy” and helping Republicans with bans on trans health care, serving as “expert witnesses” in favour. Tories have now admitted the group was salted with “gender critical” activists specifically to “expedite” the work, while trans people were explicitly excluded.
Erin in the Morning has the details, as do Drs. Max Davie and Lorna Hobbs in a report they have kindly also placed in Google Docs for better public accessibility.
The Cass Report is a rightist political document disguised as a scientific work, with better cover than, say, the work of Dr. Paul Cameron, but with no better scientific validity or intent. If you don’t know who Cameron is, count yourself lucky. Or read my M&Ms post, the same one I linked above. Either will do.
This was a hatchet job and a work of hatred used to both condemn and deny medical care to people who desperately need it, and it is yet another lie that must be exposed, and another fraud about which people should know.
It is, once again, yet another goddamn lie of the right.
87 days remain.
[link] #medicine #politics #USPol #fascism #lolscience #politics #uspolitics
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Today’s a really heavy work day
…so I don’t really have anything new for you today, but if you missed them, I strongly suggest that you give these two posts over the weekend a look. I think they’re valuable, and also under-read.
- “In four years you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not gonna have to vote.” – Donald Trump meant exactly what he said, but not in the way most people are reporting it. Did you know North Korea has three legal political parties? And that they have elections too? And all three parties have seats in the people’s assembly?
I’d be like that. Or more likely, like Russia, where Putin allows pet opposition parties. They’re just not allowed to win.
There would still be elections and multiple political parties in MAGA America; they’d just be ones only Republicans could win.
- For Elon so hated his daughter that he moved to destroy the world – On mask-off fascism and on the reasons for it, including sheer, unmitigated, unlimited hatred of women.
If those aren’t enough, I’d really also suggest you give a look at on M&Ms and sample selection, or really, on something more, which is about how Christofascists have created fake science for decades, and how they and their rightist allies continue doing so right now. It will help you explain to others why fascist cardboard science is cardboard, not real, and might help you spot it when it’s hard to tell the difference.
Back tomorrow with new material. Enjoy the Olympics, it’s gonna be a loooooong autumn.
98 days remain.
[link] #politics #science #USPol #fascism #lolscience #politics #science #uspolitics
- “In four years you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not gonna have to vote.” – Donald Trump meant exactly what he said, but not in the way most people are reporting it. Did you know North Korea has three legal political parties? And that they have elections too? And all three parties have seats in the people’s assembly?
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tucker carlson is “open to” the earth being flat
No. Really. This isn’t the Turning Point conference where he flirted with it several months ago but was very clearly working in a joking way, this is very recent and he’s not obviously joking at all. He’s using it to push the idea that the truth is unknowable, an idea that fascist movements use to cement belief in the great leader, however.
That, […]
[link] #bad #politics #science #USPol #lolscience #news #science #uspol #uspolitics
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this was also always a lie
Elon Musk’s oft-quoted declarations about Tesla “autopilot” being safer than human drivers was always a lie:
Tesla keeps these paying liability sponges behind the wheel largely through the strength of a statistical lie: that Autopilot is safer than human drivers. … When road safety researcher Noah Goodall adjusted the best publicly available […]
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Fascism Watch for April 26, 2023: Expel the Opposition Again edition
State Rep. Zooey Zephyr said – correctly – during the Republican Montana Legislature’s debates over their anti-trans-healthcare bill that people voting for it would have “blood on your hands.” This is, again, the truth, and she was saying this in context of youth suicide. They’re now moving to censure or expel her. We don’t know […]
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Career anti-gay “researcher” and generator of hate propaganda Paul Cameron: Gay Sex is Better
Paul Cameron was the fundamentalist all-star “researcher” in the 1980s and 1990s, well known for fabricating studies, faking and intentionally distorting data, and publishing such scholarly works as The Death Penalty for Homosexuality, which will hopefully appear in these backdated posts soon. They’d trot his lies out in courtrooms, state legislatures, […]
