#scepticism — Public Fediverse posts

« My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. »

https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

#medicine #scepticism #SnakeOil

« My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. »

https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

#medicine #scepticism #SnakeOil

« My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. »

https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

#medicine #scepticism #SnakeOil

« My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. »

https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

#medicine #scepticism #SnakeOil

« My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. »

https://www.statnews.com/2026/04/03/peptides-statins-research-trust-bpc-157/

#medicine #scepticism #SnakeOil

This is sickening. The public broadcaster (ARD) in #Germany is downplaying the AfD neo-Nazi position by refering to their #antimigration #policies and #sentiments as #scepticism. No, they are opposed to #migration. They are openly debating #deportstionnof all with a #migrant background. Even people who have been here for generations. Scepticism is doubt and uncertainty. They are very certain that migration is bad, contrary to #reality and actual #data. Typical #conservative like, #fear and #lies

This is sickening. The public broadcaster (ARD) in #Germany is downplaying the AfD neo-Nazi position by refering to their #antimigration #policies and #sentiments as #scepticism. No, they are opposed to #migration. They are openly debating #deportstionnof all with a #migrant background. Even people who have been here for generations. Scepticism is doubt and uncertainty. They are very certain that migration is bad, contrary to #reality and actual #data. Typical #conservative like, #fear and #lies

This is sickening. The public broadcaster (ARD) in #Germany is downplaying the AfD neo-Nazi position by refering to their #antimigration #policies and #sentiments as #scepticism. No, they are opposed to #migration. They are openly debating #deportstionnof all with a #migrant background. Even people who have been here for generations. Scepticism is doubt and uncertainty. They are very certain that migration is bad, contrary to #reality and actual #data. Typical #conservative like, #fear and #lies

This is sickening. The public broadcaster (ARD) in #Germany is downplaying the AfD neo-Nazi position by refering to their #antimigration #policies and #sentiments as #scepticism. No, they are opposed to #migration. They are openly debating #deportstionnof all with a #migrant background. Even people who have been here for generations. Scepticism is doubt and uncertainty. They are very certain that migration is bad, contrary to #reality and actual #data. Typical #conservative like, #fear and #lies

Village THE SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information https://hermetic.com/information/the-soldier-and-the-hunchback/index

#propaganda #TheVillage #ThePrisoner #AleisterCrowley #soldier #hunchback #belief #doubt #faith #scepticism

I keep discovering that deflationary philosophy attracts mystics like moths to a freshly cleared void, so I wrote about it.
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/24/why-deflationary-philosophy-keeps-attracting-mystics/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
It's odd, because the entire point is to remove the furniture, not consecrate the space.
#philosophy #psychology #mysticism #moths #scepticism #language #deflation #maps #terrain #reality #perception #blog #podcast #Wittgenstein #silence

@astronomerritt

I find the same with many fans of what is often called ‘hard science fiction.’

Those with a little knowledge are quite pretentiously committed to it and sneer at literature, film and television that explores a wider canvas of possibility and their audiences. Those with advanced science degrees are often impatient with the implausible logical contortions that authors of recent ‘hard SF’ make just to keep the science speculation to a minimum.

While the concept seems intended to describe science fiction, imaginative stories that extrapolate from established science fact and theory, what it usually means to its proponents is that the fiction has to be limited to what a person with a mid 20th century bachelor’s degree in physics would know.

Setting aside the weirdness of holding physics theory constant while allowing fictional biology, chemistry, math and engineering to advance around 20th century physics, such fiction usually lacks the curiosity and ‘What if?’ elements that drive scientists.

#scepticism #ScientificMethod #Curiosity #ScienceFiction #HardScienceFiction #UnexplainedPhenomena

This!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70vYj1KPyT4

#Science #PhilosophyOfScience #ScienceDenial #Scepticism #Skepticism #ScienceCommunication #Pseudoscience

Carl Sagan's guidelines to practice science

Thinking tools -
The Baloney Detection Kit: How to Think Sceptically and Bust Bullshit

🔗 https://themindcollection.com/baloney-detection-kit/

#science #philosophyofscience @philosophy @philosophyofmind @philosophie @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @Scientits #thinking #criticalthinking #philosophy #astronomy #sagan #carlsagan #thinking #thinkingtools #authority #experts #fallacy #scepticism #correlation #stoicism #epistemology #research #researchmethodology

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Tuller walks us through their argumentation and concludes: "The whole thing reads like a desperate attempt to portray their intervention as having had some meaningful effect. The CODES data tell a different story."

@david #sceptic #sceptics #scepticism #skeptic #skeptics #skepticism

Practical Atheism - Evolution of Atheism.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AH14sEK5OsE

#atheism #atheist #definitions #polysemous #language #atheismandatheists #linguistics

New TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@answersinreason/video/7176922280797261061

#TikTok #Philosophy #Scepticism #LanguageLinguistics #Skeptic #Language #PhilosophiesOf #Sceptic #Linguistics #Terminology #PhilosophyOfReligion #POR #definitions #Theism #Atheism #Nontheism #Theist #Atheist #DefinitionsofAthe

#MichaelShermer - What’s the #NewAtheism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLDywmDlfbE

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfReligion #Religion #Atheist #Atheism #Theist #Theism #Theology #God #Gods #Hume #DavidHume #Agnostic #Agnosticism #Science #FineTuning #Universe #Sceptic #Skeptic #Sceptics #Skeptics #Scepticism #Skepticism #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

Article placing profiteering from quack treatments to people with ME/CFS, and the BBC program's promotion of quackery, in the wider context including the history, lack of any effective treatment and very low research funding.

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/02/dragons-dens-uncritical-promotion-of-ear-seeds-is-an-insult-to-me-cfs-patients-like-me/

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME @mecfs #skeptic #skeptics #sceptic #sceptics #scepticism

An emeritus professor Edzard Ernst who has focused on researching Complementary & Alternative Medicine takes a sceptical look at an Ear Acupressure Device that has been promoted for ME and other conditions

https://edzardernst.com/2024/01/dragons-den-contestant-gets-offer-from-all-six-dragons-for-an-ear-acupressure-device/

#scepticism #sceptic @mecfs

#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @chronicillness
@spoonies
#chronicillness
#chroniclife
#ChronicPain
#Spoonielife
#hiddenillness
#invisibleillness

If There’s No Evidence, It Doesn’t Exist by Dave Rowlandshttps://www.answers-in-reason.com/?p=14201?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Automation&utm_campaign=PAD#Bad#Atheist #Atheism #BadArguments #Atheist #Justification #Philosophy #Sceptic #Scepticism #Skeptic #Skepticism #Belief

#SimonBlackburn - Arguments About #God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hBG08tslY&t=23s&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Religion #PhilosophyOfReligion #Theism #Atheism #Theology #Sociology #Society #Evolution #Scepticism #Skepticism #Design #Teleology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SimonBlackburn - Arguments About #God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hBG08tslY&t=23s&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Religion #PhilosophyOfReligion #Theism #Atheism #Theology #Sociology #Society #Evolution #Scepticism #Skepticism #Design #Teleology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SimonBlackburn - Arguments About #God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hBG08tslY&t=23s&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Religion #PhilosophyOfReligion #Theism #Atheism #Theology #Sociology #Society #Evolution #Scepticism #Skepticism #Design #Teleology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SimonBlackburn - Arguments About #God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hBG08tslY&t=23s&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Religion #PhilosophyOfReligion #Theism #Atheism #Theology #Sociology #Society #Evolution #Scepticism #Skepticism #Design #Teleology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#SimonBlackburn - Arguments About #God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hBG08tslY&t=23s&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #Science #PhilosophyOfScience #Religion #PhilosophyOfReligion #Theism #Atheism #Theology #Sociology #Society #Evolution #Scepticism #Skepticism #Design #Teleology #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

‘The more outlandish the claim, the more likely it will stick in people’s minds’ – expert’s warning as fake news and cancer ‘cures’ put patients at risk

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/health/the-more-outlandish-the-claim-the-more-likely-it-will-stick-in-peoples-minds-experts-warning-as-fake-news-and-cancer-cures-put-patients-at-risk-42394600.html

#skeptic #sceptic #scepticism #chronicillness @chronicillness @spoonies #longtermillness #health #quackery

It's not that I don't believe in clairvoyants. I just don't understand why the universe would disproportionately bestow psychic abilities on outer suburban housewives.

#sceptic #jokes #humour #scepticism

#DonaldHoffman - Why Did #Consciousness #Emerge ?

An interesting twist on #Kant's #Noumenal / #Phenomenal duality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Y1kvpjO9Q&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Neuroscience #Evolution #Mind #Perception #Phenomenology #Reality #Truth #Scepticism #Skepticism #GameTheory #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn