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Scott PfitzingerIn 1995, Carl Sagan introduced the concept of a "Baloney Detection Kit." This consisted of 8 tools and techniques for critical thinking and evaluating claims. Full quote at the link below.Even back then, he saw our culture sliding back into pseudoscience and superstition.<a href="https://www.openculture.com/2016/04/carl-sagan-presents-his-baloney-detection-kit-8-tools-for-skeptical-thinking.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.openculture.com/2016/04/carl-sagan-presents-his-baloney-detection-kit-8-tools-for-skeptical-thinking.html</a><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CarlSagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CarlSagan</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/baloney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#baloney</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/superstition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#superstition</a>

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Heritage Foundation Partners with Ivermectin Group <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/02/heritage-foundation-partners-with-ivermectin-group" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/07/02/heritage-foundation-partners-with-ivermectin-group</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeritageFoundation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COVID19</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quackery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quackery</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFKjr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKjr</a>🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Christofascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgenocide</a>🏳️‍⚧️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TransLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BTLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BTLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870</a>

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦Essential viewing for young men. The pseudoscience and disinformation nonsense linked to the “manosphere” must not be ignored. It is a fraud for control and to make money. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mysogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mysogyny</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pseudoscience</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disinformation</a> <a href="https://gem.cbc.ca/harder-better-faster-stronger?cmp=DM_DOCS_FEED_GEMCARD_harder-better-faster-stronger" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gem.cbc.ca/harder-better-faster-stronger?cmp=DM_DOCS_FEED_GEMCARD_harder-better-faster-stronger</a>

Peter GuhlMit dem neuen Vera Rubin <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Teleskop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Teleskop</a> soll es möglich sein, effektiv millionen von noch unbekannten Steinhaufen im Sonnensystem zu entdecken. Die müssten doch jetzt alle in die Horoskope reingerechnet werden. Damit wären die erstmal ein paar Jahre beschäftigt.<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Astrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrology</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Update" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Update</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Asteroids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Asteroids</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VeraRubin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VeraRubin</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Astronomie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astronomie</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Astrologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Astrologie</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Wissenschaft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wissenschaft</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Ironie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ironie</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Irony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Irony</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PseudoScience</a>

Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦An absolute quack preying on vulnerable ALS patients…and in Saskatchewan. Shameful! <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Saskatchewan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Saskatchewan</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pseudoscience</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/hard-to-swallow" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/hard-to-swallow</a>

bearsongSo, one of my favorite silly <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/pseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoScience</a> science fiction notions is that time travel has been discovered many times by human engineers. But, the experimenters have only been able to move along the time axis, with space defined relatively by the gravitational influence of the sun and the galaxy, not the Earth. This results in time travellers occasionally popping into regions of exceedingly empty space, where the earth was when they time jumped, and no means of surviving nor returning. <a href="https://ravenation.club/tags/sciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sciFi</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Janyce Boynton spent time using these faulty communications techniques with nonverbal autistic children. One day, she realized that the technique she was using — facilitated communication, where a facilitator helps guide a student’s hands as they type — was so deeply flawed that she had subconsciously manufactured false allegations of abuse against a child’s innocent parents. In the decades since, she has dedicated herself to helping expose autism pseudoscience and help steer people towards more legitimate forms of communication.It’s not a surprise then that Boynton has been critical of The Telepathy Tapes. On a YouTube channel dedicate to debunking autism pseudoscience, Boynton used part of one video that Dickens posted featuring a boy named Akhil spelling out messages with his mother. Boynton highlighted the video to show how Akhil’s mother can cue him about what letter to tap — which can risk robbing him of his voice in the process, as he is not typing out his thoughts but hers.That was when the producers of The Telepathy Tapes issued a copyright complaint against the channel, resulting in YouTube delivering a copyright strike.But the complaint was oddly sloppy. (...) Boynton teamed up with a California attorney named Pamela Koslyn to fight back, arguing to YouTube that the use of the clip falls under fair use. YouTube stated that The Telepathy Tapes had 10 days to sue in federal court for copyright infringement; if they didn’t, the content would be restored. The strike was removed and the video is back up on Boynton’s channel."<a href="https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-telepathy-tapes-turns-to-censorship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theamericansaga.com/p/the-telepathy-tapes-turns-to-censorship</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMCA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PseudoScience</a>

Rohini LakshanéHis book "A cosmic adventure" was one of my childhood favourites. And I have redoubled respect for him for publicly taking on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a> of astrology and scientifically debunking astrologers' claims. That was another time and another country.<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00092-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-025-00092-4</a>

CCR Feline Research CenterEver read a scientific study with only 50 meaningful words in the Results section? I just did. "Cats spent significantly less time exploring and in proximity to the treatment garbage can than to the control garbage can. The latency to approach tended to be higher for the treatment can than for the control garbage can. No significant difference in the first choice between garbage cans was found."On top of this, the sample size was 5.<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a>

FlipboardThe wellness to right-wing pipeline is a real thing. For <a href="https://newsie.social/@nybooks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nybooks</a>, Hari Kunzru writes about “Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat,” by <a href="https://threads.net/@derekberes/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@derekberes</a>, <a href="https://mstdn.social/@matthewremski" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@matthewremski</a> and Julian Walker, and “Fascist Yoga: Grifters, Occultists, White Supremacists and the New Order in Wellness” by Stewart Home. Both books lay bare the ascendancy of paranoia and pseudoscience [story may be paywalled].<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/29/doing-their-own-research-conspirituality-fascist-yoga/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/29/doing-their-own-research-conspirituality-fascist-yoga/</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pseudoscience</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Wellness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wellness</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Conspirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conspirituality</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConspiracyTheories</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MAHA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAHA</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/RFK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFK</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

broVbro 🇺🇲<a href="https://toot.community/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a> never submits to the rigorous scrutiny of science. If it did and survived, it would immediately transform into <a href="https://toot.community/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a>

Ashwin DixitBREAKING NEWS: "Scientists have found trillions of molecules of Hydrogen Dioxide in our rivers, under the influence of the Earth's gravitational field, moving at a rapid rate towards any Ocean they can find, and violently colliding with each other and the river bed, billions and billions of times every second, in what they are now calling Bernoulli Turbulent Flow. 1/n<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Joke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Joke</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FakeNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FakeNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PseudoScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaLies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceJournalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScinceJokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScinceJokes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humour</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BreakingNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BreakingNews</a>

WuzzyFirst they came for trans people. Then they came for autists.<a href="https://people.com/rfk-jr-to-launch-autism-registry-using-private-health-records-11720156" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://people.com/rfk-jr-to-launch-autism-registry-using-private-health-records-11720156</a>A "national <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a> registry" should alarm everyone. <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/sus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sus</a>This is from the man who spreads the lie that "vaccines cause autism" (debunked here: <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccines_and_autism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccines_and_autism</a>>). The same man who falsely claimed that autists never work or pay taxes. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/17/rfk-jr-autism-children/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/17/rfk-jr-autism-children/</a>I suggest to everyone in the US to get rid of <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#health</a> trackers, smart watches, etc.<a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/OPSEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OPSEC</a> <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Desperate for a new intellectual underpinning, neoliberals and libertarians sought refuge in the work of economist Friedrich Hayek, who famously argued in his 1944 polemic The Road to Serfdom that government intervention in markets is antithetical to individual freedom. But Murray, Rothbard, Hoppe, and others fatally twisted Hayek’s message, claims Slobodian, and took it so far as to argue that only Western countries are intellectually and culturally primed for capitalism.The politics of this cohort, which he dubs the “new fusionists,” was rooted in “three hards,” argues Slobodian: “Hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money.” They forged sordid alliances with biologists, evolutionary psychologists, and ethnonationalists, spouting pseudoscience about the link between race and IQ, a topic famously repopularized in the 1994 best-seller The Bell Curve, coauthored by Murray and psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein. They railed against lax immigration policies on the premise that they led to cultural decay. But perhaps most strangely, they ballyhooed the value of gold as a backstop against a looming economic cataclysm caused by incompetency in Washington. (Talk about apropos.)In an interview with Vanity Fair, which has been edited for length and clarity, Slobodian analyzes Donald Trump’s radical agenda through this new prism of neoliberalism. He also unpacks the distressing parallels between goldbugs and crypto bros, and details why the tech set has suddenly taken up with the MAGA right. Silicon Valley’s “willingness to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Donald Trump,” he says, is indicative “of the embrace of an ideology that pretty frankly ranks human capacity along the spectrum of intelligence and IQ.”"<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-silicon-valley-neoliberal-roots" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-silicon-valley-neoliberal-roots</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NewFusionists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewFusionists</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PseudoScience</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libertarianism</a>

Stephen SekulaMeasles is spreading. Here’s how to stay safe. - The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/measles-is-spreading-heres-how-to-stay-safe/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/measles-is-spreading-heres-how-to-stay-safe/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cooleysekula.net/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disease</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cooleysekula.net/tags/outbreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#outbreak</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cooleysekula.net/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cooleysekula.net/tags/debunking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#debunking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cooleysekula.net/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a>

Rowan Brad Quni<a href="https://mastodon.world/@paninid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@paninid</a> fast forward to the present and scientists who barely study <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> label <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#metaphysics</a> as <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a> (forgetting what <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhD</a> means), torment <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#logic</a> for the benefit of "elegant" <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#math</a> equations (e.g. antimatter, dark <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/matter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#matter</a>), and design <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systems</a> that weaponize <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethics</a> as justification for <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#information</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> (<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChatGPT</a> "knows" but refuses to answer how to a hot wire a car or commit murder while claiming no <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opinion</a>, ignorant that words and actions are different)

William Lindsey :toad:As Robyn Pennacchia reports, RFK Jr. is commissioning a study of the nonexistent "link" between vaccines and autism.And, unsurprisingly, to head that study he has picked a man who is not a doctor nor a scientist, one David Geier, who has been in trouble for practicing medicine without a license.As with so much about the Trump administration, nothing to see here, more along.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medicine</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#research</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#disinformation</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PseudoScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PseudoScience</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/p/anti-vaxx-not-a-doctor-picked-to" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wonkette.com/p/anti-vaxx-not-a-doctor-picked-to</a>

MikeDunnAuthorRFK Jr's former nonprofit posted a fake CDC website that criticized vaccines. Kennedy asked the Children's Health Defense to remove the site but only after the NYTimes contacted him about it. Kennedy is currently using the CDC to waste resources on further studies on the long disproven link began vaccines and autism and, in the process, further bolstering antivaxxers' delusional hysteria. <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/fake-cdc-vaccine-site-linked-anti-vax-nonprofit-once-headed-rfk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/fake-cdc-vaccine-site-linked-anti-vax-nonprofit-once-headed-rfk</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publichealth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cdc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cdc</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vaccines</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antivax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivax</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a>

VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ"The Right’s ‘Natural’ Meat Obsession Is a Regressive Fantasy" by <a href="https://newsie.social/@sentientmedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@sentientmedia</a> <💬> Another component for Kennedy of what constitutes “natural” is taking on things like red food dye, seed oils and ultra-processed foods — while promoting tallow, raw milk and grass-fed beef. </💬><a href="https://sentientmedia.org/mahas-natural-foods-obsession/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sentientmedia.org/mahas-natural-foods-obsession/</a>Vegans often are faced with fallacious arguments, and one of the most common is the Naturalistic fallacy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy</a>However, this is often a bad faith disguise. The use of naturalistic fallacies in these contexts, such as the claim that consuming animals is "good" because it's natural, is a disguise for another more insidious fallacy: the traditionalist fallacy or "appeal to tradition".<a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition</a>The traditionalist fallacy is, in this context, the argument that "consuming animals is good because we've done it for thousands of years".Traditionalism is heavily political, as the people are finding out again in places such as the US. It's sometimes known as "paleoconservatism", and it should be no surprise that the popularity of the "paleo diet" culturally connects to this. Conservatives, ever since the rise of modernity (end of 'traditional' society, end of monarchism and feudalism) have been trying to reinvent the past through pseudointellectual and pseudoscientific efforts. This has been at the heart of incredible amounts of suffering and horror since then. I have some notes on that on my pinned thread: <a href="https://veganism.social/deck/@veganpizza69/110813538364525265" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://veganism.social/deck/@veganpizza69/110813538364525265</a> Bullshit & snake oil are not vegan.<a href="https://veganism.social/tags/MAHA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAHA</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meat</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/grassFed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grassFed</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/animalIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animalIndustry</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/CAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CAFO</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/intensivization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intensivization</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/extensivization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extensivization</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainability</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/ecofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecofascism</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/conservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservatism</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/traditionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#traditionalism</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/paleoconservatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleoconservatism</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/paleo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleo</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/paleodiet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paleodiet</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/traditions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#traditions</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/tradwife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tradwife</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/scam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scam</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/antivaccine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivaccine</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/antivaxx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antivaxx</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grifters</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sustainability</a> <a href="https://veganism.social/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snakeoil</a>

Claire BoilleyL'intégration des réflexes archaïques dans le traitement des troubles du neurodéveloppement, ça vaut quoi ? Sources obsolètes, bases théoriques non valides, rapports avec des pratiques signalées par la MIVILUDES... ➡️ Le Conseil National Professionnel des Psychomotriciens rejette fermement ces formations, c.f. l'avis ci-dessous, dans lequel on apprend qu'en moyenne, 60% d'entre nous présentons un réflexe archaïque persistant !_"Formations basées sur l’intégration des réflexes archaïques : Avis du Conseil National Professionnel des Psychomotriciens.Le CNPP a été sollicité à plusieurs reprise par des psychomotriciens au sujet de la pertinence des formations sur les réflexes archaïques (aussi appelés réflexes primitifs). En effet, les offres de formation se multiplient, souvent accompagnées d’une démarche commerciale insistante.Que ce soit dans le champ du développement personnel ou de celui des troubles neurodéveloppementaux pour ne citer qu'eux, les ouvrages, sites internet, articles de presse et autres formations destinées aux professionnels du médical et du paramédical, en lien avec les réflexes archaïques se sont largement développés ces dernières années (Intégration Motrice Primordiale, 2025 ; Sutherland, 2019 ; de Saint Voulry, 2022).Le CNPP rappelle que la responsabilité première d’un professionnel de santé est de proposer aux personnes qui recourent à ses services des interventions de qualité, basées autant que possible sur des preuves, condition sine qua non pour assurer la sécurité des soins. Les psychomotriciens ne sauraient donc s’engager à se former ou à employer ce type de « méthodes » sans un minimum de circonspection et de vérification quant à la pertinence et la validité de ces dernières.Or, la littérature scientifique nous apprend que la prévalence de ces réflexes archaïques non intégrés dans différentes populations est très importante. En moyenne, 60 % de la population générale présenteraient un réflexe archaïque persistant (Gieysztor et al. 2018 ; Jacobs & Gossman, 1980). Dans certaines études, le pourcentage d’individus exempts de pathologies et présentant au moins un réflexe primitif non intégré atteint même les 90% (León-Bravo et al., 2023). Face à ce constat, il est aisé de comprendre que si les réflexes archaïques non intégrés étaient la cause de différents troubles ou de maladies, il faudrait revoir le concept même de santé. Dans les faits, ces approches ne sont absolument pas récentes, leurs sources remontant aux travaux de Dennison dans les années 1970 (Dennison & Dennison, 1994). Cependant, elles souffrent d’une absence totale de fondements théoriques valides et ne sont plus en phase avec les connaissances actuelles sur le cerveau ou le système nerveux de manière plus générale. Elles ont pour l’immense majorité une origine commune, la méthode Brain Gym® aussi appelée kinésiologie (Axelrad, 2024), pour laquelle le rapport de la MIVILUDES rappelle qu’elle « reçoit régulièrement des signalements concernant la pratique de la kinésiologie et de techniques associées (comme la Brain Gym® par exemple) », en plus d’être considérée comme une pseudoscience (Rapport MIVILUDES, 2009 ; Rapport INSERM, 2017). Suivre ces formations dont le contenu n’est pas fondé scientifiquement pose donc des problèmes concernant la sécurité des soins, la déontologie et plus globalement pour le respect de l’obligation de formation qui incombe aux psychomotriciens.C’est sans équivoque que le CNPP dénonce le recours à ces méthodes qui peuvent induire une errance diagnostique et thérapeutique délétère pour les usagers, et recommande fortement aux psychomotriciens de ne pas y recourir."<a href="https://cnp-psychomotriciens.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/avis-ra_vf-4.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cnp-psychomotriciens.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/avis-ra_vf-4.pdf</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/sant%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#santé</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/medecine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medecine</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/pseudoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pseudoscience</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/psychomotricit%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychomotricité</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/TND" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TND</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/autisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autisme</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/TDAH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TDAH</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/orthophonie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#orthophonie</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/psychologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychologie</a> <a href="https://social.sciences.re/tags/handicap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#handicap</a>

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