Pragmatic Scientist

@BelenLuciaH @CanadaSoccerEN @USMNT How many wars has Canada won against the U.S.? #1812liveson

@CanadaSoccerEN @USMNT How many gold cups has Canada won in its history?

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Rachel Gilmore was recently hosted at Canada’s premiere journalism school @JSchool_CU as an expert on hate and disinformation. Cream of the Canadian crop. Here is here latest insight on @elonmusk

Lockdowns failed because societies are deeply unequal. For the laptop class? A bit inconvenient, but... fine. Might even be good. For a working single mom? Tough to oversee Zoom school & also care for family. For the poor in poor countries? Your family faces starvation.

Hard to reconcile how poorly girls did during the pandemic. Also hard to reconcile how some argued that kids did just fine. thelancet.com/journals/lanch…

Anyone still think our country is a liberal democracy?

@whiskeylover99 @MNavarroGenie @LosersParade @JustinTrudeau @PierrePoilievre You thought that was a big gotcha moment (that's you on the right).You know that you can be an MP and still be an advocate for changing this system that disproportionately benefits politicians and gives them a luxurious lifestyle that anyone could dream of?

@MNavarroGenie @LosersParade @JustinTrudeau @PierrePoilievre We do see the irony of someone with ritzy spending accounts and a pay and pension system most Canadians could only dream of calling out someone else in the same position. Try sprinkling in an ounce of common sense before you tweet your rage farm material.

Fighting poverty while being forced to stay at luxury hotels must be an unimaginable burden on the leader. He does it so that Canadians don't have to. But it's comforting to know he always has our backs, in every step to the champagne bar. #cdnpoli

@TheCanadianCon @RealAndyLeeShow @jenniferelle_ It's also enabling the most perverse people of society to hijack the LGBTQ+ movement for their own causes because they can claim anyone opposed to their movement is a bigot. For example, the creeping normalization of pedophilia...

@genevalaitis @nationalpost Now analyze the CBC's funding Gene.

@nationalpost National Post tax payer media bailout, now close to $40 million dollars. CEO Andrew MacLeod said Postmedia would likely not be profitable if not for over $35 million in federal “government support." Tax dollars. Spare us the above story. No one buys your papers.

Prime minister's two-day trip to anti-poverty summit in NYC rang up $61K hotel bill: documents #Echobox=1687367502" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nationalpost.com/news/politics/…

If you ever wondered why the LPC have double downed on the Bernardo scandal, this news should be insightful. They don't want the public to know that they went after the victims' families. Absolutely vile.

A Dutch city banned investment properties ('buy-to-let') — here's what happened: - Home prices stayed the same - Rents went up - Wealthy families replaced working class people in neighbourhoods Why? Banning investment properties doesn't add new housing supply — but it does change the makeup of who can afford to live in those homes. And as it turns out, shrinking the supply of rental housing is bad, actually, for working class people who can't save a down payment or afford to carry a mortgage. I understand the impulse folks have to want to ban foreign investment, or ban wealthy people from owning multiple properties. We're all looking for someone to blame for the housing crisis. We want a way to solve the housing crisis without making any meaningful changes. It doesn't exist. The truth is we need more supply — period. More houses. More rentals. More social housing. More density. In every neighbourhood. We need all levels of government to get on board with a war-time effort to build more homes. And we need to start today.

@MBurt34 Urology. I've never met an unhappy urologist.

which medical specialty has the happiest people?

@a_longhurst Hey Andrew, Willing to share evidence if you share evidence of when before in history (prior to 2020) we've successfully used community wide masking to stop viral illnesses.

What evidence is being followed with the removal of universal masking in health care. What evidence? Please share.

@deepgreendesign @jonkay Hey everyone, Graham's home is open for you to take a dump. Graham is a stand up guy who is super generous and wants to give everyone the right to take a dump in peace by offering his home.

@jonkay Do you have gender-neutral bathrooms at home?

Ah okay. So it's for boys, and the girls will spend the whole day avoiding the bathroom. burnabynow.com/local-news/sha…

@telecommoner Didn't Sunshine and Louise get a huge dump of snow last year around this same time? So what's the big deal, is snow in the summer suddenly bad, when we've had it for probably the last 30+ years in Alberta?

Marmot Basin ski hill in Jasper right now. June 19

@ThomMohr @strauss_matt @gorskon @PeterHotez So if those claims were later disproven, why didn't Dr. Hotez show humility admitting the limitations to what he knew at the time? Why did he double down instead? Scientists must be willing to be refuted and corrected over time, otherwise they come off as arrogant.

@strauss_matt @gorskon @PeterHotez Making claims that are later disproven is completely normal in a pandemic with a new virus. That development is called science.

No, @PeterHotez is not an expert "because he says so." He's an expert because his peers in his field recognize him as an expert based on his scholarship and contributions to that field. Dismissing legitimate expertise as "self-declared" is a common tactic used by cranks.

@ChristophLyon Yikes, this statement even goes against the principles of palliative care (including goals of care). No wonder so many palliative care doctors are speaking out against the expansion of MAID.

During the 1960s and 1970s, the psychiatric-survivors movement emerged with the aim of “liberating” the mentally ill. The activists found a sense of purpose as they saw themselves as heroic figures fighting against oppression within the psychiatric institution. However, their perspective evolved over time into an ideology that rejected the concept of mental illness altogether. They believed they were simply “different” rather than “abnormal”, asserting that their perception of the world held equal, if not greater, validity than that of the “sane” society. The movement actively sought to influence the management of individuals with mental illness and exerted significant power through their advocacy groups. They were able to effectively halt funding for hospitals that did not adhere to their demands. Ultimately, their efforts led to the deinstitutionalization of the severely mentally ill, amongst other consequences. This transition left many “liberated” patients without sufficient support. As a result, many of them faced homelessness, resorted to crime, and their families bore the burdens of their challenges. A psychiatric issue was essentially framed as a social justice issue, and although the activists accomplished their “cause”, it was the patients genuinely in need of mental health support who suffered for it. Today, Gender Dysphoria, a psychiatric condition, is being framed by activists as a social justice issue. Activist organizations are actively influencing how Gender Dysphoria is evaluated and managed. The genuine therapeutic needs of vulnerable individuals (children and young adults) are being compromised in favor of ideological goals. It is unfortunate that the very institution of Psychiatry, which ideally should resist this trend and facilitate an objective resolution of this issue, is instead complicit in promoting this activism.

@DrKatEpi @eekymom @SpotifyUSA The point I think that she is trying to make is that scientific debate is healthy and allows knowledge to evolve. For example, aspirin used to be prescribed to prevent heart attacks until it was discovered that it increased intracranial bleeding. All medicine has its risks.

@eekymom @SpotifyUSA I’m sorry about the myocarditis. However, myocarditis as a potential side effect in young males was discovered early in the VAERS system and reported. That’s actually a good example of why the nonsense RFK touts about autism is BS. If it was real we would see it in the data

Shame on @SpotifyUSA for continuing to allow dangerous nonsense on their platform that has been proven to be false vice.com/en/article/k7z…

Dunning-Kruger effect is real folks. Lesson 101 on why Twitter doctors shouldn't be giving medical advice on people who aren't their patients.

@Motzie7432 @TheRealKeean But can you draw the line when teachers tell their students that they should start puberty blockers as they think they were born in the wrong body? Teachers are in no position to be giving advice on a treatment with terrible adverse effects, let alone give any medical advice.

@TheRealKeean Ummm, so isn’t that kinda the point ‘they don’t send them to school to tell them who they are, they know who they are’ yeah, and that’s exactly what teachers want, for kids to be respected for WHO THEY ARE, not not force LGBTQ kids to be something they’re not.

Words from a Calgary Imam, who explains why he is here. To stop "indoctrination"