Daniel Loxton 🇨🇦
@danielloxton.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, and researcher of misinformation and fringe claims. Former Editor (2002–2021) of Junior Skeptic, and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be and other science books for kids and adults. https://www.danielloxton.com
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A very incomplete list drawn from accounts I follow:
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It's wild to see some big names in skepticism/atheism get mentioned in the Epstein Files.
Chopra invites Shermer, Dawkins, Harris, and Krauss over for winer and dinner to "celebrate our differences."
Harris met Epstein and they email here and there.
(1 of 2)
Chopra invites Shermer, Dawkins, Harris, and Krauss over for winer and dinner to "celebrate our differences."
Harris met Epstein and they email here and there.
(1 of 2)
February 1, 2026 at 11:58 PM
It's wild to see some big names in skepticism/atheism get mentioned in the Epstein Files.
Chopra invites Shermer, Dawkins, Harris, and Krauss over for winer and dinner to "celebrate our differences."
Harris met Epstein and they email here and there.
(1 of 2)
Chopra invites Shermer, Dawkins, Harris, and Krauss over for winer and dinner to "celebrate our differences."
Harris met Epstein and they email here and there.
(1 of 2)
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And 1 more thought.
Every time Shermer opens his mouth about trans people, he is interfering in the private lives of strangers.
If truly did not care about their private lives, he can emulate me and just STFU. It's possible. I am living proof.
Every time Shermer opens his mouth about trans people, he is interfering in the private lives of strangers.
If truly did not care about their private lives, he can emulate me and just STFU. It's possible. I am living proof.
A lengthy reply on X in which Shermer denies being obsessed with stranger's genitals, though he's compelled to speak about them because trans people are in charge today, and he has to "speak truth to power."
January 31, 2026 at 5:42 PM
And 1 more thought.
Every time Shermer opens his mouth about trans people, he is interfering in the private lives of strangers.
If truly did not care about their private lives, he can emulate me and just STFU. It's possible. I am living proof.
Every time Shermer opens his mouth about trans people, he is interfering in the private lives of strangers.
If truly did not care about their private lives, he can emulate me and just STFU. It's possible. I am living proof.
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The “public intellectual” business has far more thirsty strivers than there are invitations to the more exclusive VIP cocktail parties
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
The “public intellectual” business has far more thirsty strivers than there are invitations to the more exclusive VIP cocktail parties
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There are people who won’t show up much or at all in the files just because they were kinda stuck on the periphery of the VIP Big Ideas scene (within which, in turn, the depraved private island scene was a more exclusive smaller concentric circle—a recursive series of “real party” within the party)
February 2, 2026 at 12:04 AM
There are people who won’t show up much or at all in the files just because they were kinda stuck on the periphery of the VIP Big Ideas scene (within which, in turn, the depraved private island scene was a more exclusive smaller concentric circle—a recursive series of “real party” within the party)
There are people who won’t show up much or at all in the files just because they were kinda stuck on the periphery of the VIP Big Ideas scene (within which, in turn, the depraved private island scene was a more exclusive smaller concentric circle—a recursive series of “real party” within the party)
February 2, 2026 at 12:04 AM
There are people who won’t show up much or at all in the files just because they were kinda stuck on the periphery of the VIP Big Ideas scene (within which, in turn, the depraved private island scene was a more exclusive smaller concentric circle—a recursive series of “real party” within the party)
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Haven't seen this circulating as much here as I've seen over on Twitter and Threads, but just an FYI that the "girls FTW" email is FAKE. It's not in the files. There's no time or date stamp. Someone just made it as a (really dumb and harmful) joke. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
February 1, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Haven't seen this circulating as much here as I've seen over on Twitter and Threads, but just an FYI that the "girls FTW" email is FAKE. It's not in the files. There's no time or date stamp. Someone just made it as a (really dumb and harmful) joke. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...
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@joho.bsky.social returns to the podcast to talk about MAGA’s enablers in the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
Brief: Did MAHA Put MAGA In Power? — Conspirituality
Dr Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist at NYU Langone’s Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, returns to the podcast to talk about MAGA’s enablers in the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net
January 31, 2026 at 9:36 PM
@joho.bsky.social returns to the podcast to talk about MAGA’s enablers in the MAHA movement.
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
www.conspirituality.net/episodes/bri...
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It's always the ones you absolutely suspect.
It's hard to keep up, but did we already know Bjorn Lomborg was hanging out with Epstein?
February 1, 2026 at 8:37 PM
It's always the ones you absolutely suspect.
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I remember once hearing Michael Shermer talk to a skeptic audience about a spooky experience he had with a clock or a watch, and everyone was acting like it was deeply profound of him, and I (a young, ex-ghost hunter-turned-skeptic) sat there thinking "uh... what???? Have you all smoked something?"
February 1, 2026 at 7:52 AM
I remember once hearing Michael Shermer talk to a skeptic audience about a spooky experience he had with a clock or a watch, and everyone was acting like it was deeply profound of him, and I (a young, ex-ghost hunter-turned-skeptic) sat there thinking "uh... what???? Have you all smoked something?"
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I was hired at my former magazine by late co-founder Pat Linse. I never even spoke to the other guy until I went to Seattle to meet him a year or two later. He was there for this *amazing* youth conference, with dozens of speakers like sergey brin and jack horner, and I got pulled in and introduced…
Anyone here surprised? As if it's not commonplace for senior academics to chase after less senior colleagues. How bringing up this attitude to other (men) is welcomed with "he's just a character" instead you get accused of "rocking the boat too hard" 😮💨
Jack Horner being in the Epstein files is not something I had on my bingo card for 2026.... Horner seemingly visited Epstein's ranch multiple times, including apparently with a student.
February 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
I was hired at my former magazine by late co-founder Pat Linse. I never even spoke to the other guy until I went to Seattle to meet him a year or two later. He was there for this *amazing* youth conference, with dozens of speakers like sergey brin and jack horner, and I got pulled in and introduced…
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This is who he is today.
February 1, 2026 at 1:32 AM
This is who he is today.
Marketplace needs a Bluesky presence as soon as possible
Maple washing: Where is your ‘Canadian’ food really from? | Full episode | Marketplace
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
February 1, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Marketplace needs a Bluesky presence as soon as possible
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I appreciate this but I have to own a mistake: When I wrote the *first* edition of DOE, I really believed that the anti-vax movement had reached its high-water mark. I would not have believed, when I wrote that first one in 2016, that RFK would be in the Cabinet. I did not know how bad it would get.
There were a LOT of things you called out ahead of time. You predicted a monstrosity like RFK JR in the making with your Death of Expertise.
February 1, 2026 at 3:54 AM
I appreciate this but I have to own a mistake: When I wrote the *first* edition of DOE, I really believed that the anti-vax movement had reached its high-water mark. I would not have believed, when I wrote that first one in 2016, that RFK would be in the Cabinet. I did not know how bad it would get.
I was hired at my former magazine by late co-founder Pat Linse. I never even spoke to the other guy until I went to Seattle to meet him a year or two later. He was there for this *amazing* youth conference, with dozens of speakers like sergey brin and jack horner, and I got pulled in and introduced…
Anyone here surprised? As if it's not commonplace for senior academics to chase after less senior colleagues. How bringing up this attitude to other (men) is welcomed with "he's just a character" instead you get accused of "rocking the boat too hard" 😮💨
Jack Horner being in the Epstein files is not something I had on my bingo card for 2026.... Horner seemingly visited Epstein's ranch multiple times, including apparently with a student.
February 1, 2026 at 2:24 AM
I was hired at my former magazine by late co-founder Pat Linse. I never even spoke to the other guy until I went to Seattle to meet him a year or two later. He was there for this *amazing* youth conference, with dozens of speakers like sergey brin and jack horner, and I got pulled in and introduced…
Thinking about class solidarity among the rich and important—sipping wine, burning money, and blurbing each other’s books
February 1, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Thinking about class solidarity among the rich and important—sipping wine, burning money, and blurbing each other’s books
I’ve never liked true crime, never been rapt by coverage of a high profile trial, etc… Learning anything about horrible things feels fundamentally unpleasant. Unfortunately there’s a point where “horrific happening” scales up to wide relevance for society…
January 31, 2026 at 11:52 PM
I’ve never liked true crime, never been rapt by coverage of a high profile trial, etc… Learning anything about horrible things feels fundamentally unpleasant. Unfortunately there’s a point where “horrific happening” scales up to wide relevance for society…
Oh, great: most of the normie skeptics I know appear in the Epstein files because a random email chain includes a cut-and-paste speakers list from The Amazing Meeting conference
January 31, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Oh, great: most of the normie skeptics I know appear in the Epstein files because a random email chain includes a cut-and-paste speakers list from The Amazing Meeting conference
This one stings
Farewell, juice concentrate. My childhood is dead.
Minute Maid Is Discontinuing This Iconic, Retro Drink
Stock up now before they're gone for good.
www.goodhousekeeping.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
This one stings
CSI hitting the “invent” button over and over
Using generative AI to "enhance" images doesn't work, but people keep trying. Following the shooting death of Renée Good by ICE, social media users attempted to "unmask" the shooter with AI, resulting in numerous images that neither resembled each other nor the actual killer, Jonathan Ross.
January 31, 2026 at 8:53 PM
CSI hitting the “invent” button over and over
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Even if that were true, the rebuttal is that left wing antiscience cranks aren’t in charge of the Democratic Party. They’re on the fringe, where they belong. In contrast, right wing antiscience cranks run the GOP, which is busily dismantling public health and biomedical research in the US.
January 31, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Even if that were true, the rebuttal is that left wing antiscience cranks aren’t in charge of the Democratic Party. They’re on the fringe, where they belong. In contrast, right wing antiscience cranks run the GOP, which is busily dismantling public health and biomedical research in the US.
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I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts”
And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world
But you know what
And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world
But you know what
January 31, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts”
And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world
But you know what
And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world
But you know what
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Michael Shermer used to be a skeptic hero.
Today, he is a MAHA enabler, obsessed with strangers' genitals and endangering trans people to get attention on social media.
I want to lead by example and prove to him it's possible to not talk about trans people constantly.
My latest.
Today, he is a MAHA enabler, obsessed with strangers' genitals and endangering trans people to get attention on social media.
I want to lead by example and prove to him it's possible to not talk about trans people constantly.
My latest.
The Anti-Trans Obsessions of “Skeptic” Michael Shermer: Hallucinating Imaginary Demons to Empower Actual Villains, Once Again.
I want to demonstrate to Michael Shermer that it’s possible for men like us to not talk about trans people constantly. If I can do it, so can he.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
January 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Michael Shermer used to be a skeptic hero.
Today, he is a MAHA enabler, obsessed with strangers' genitals and endangering trans people to get attention on social media.
I want to lead by example and prove to him it's possible to not talk about trans people constantly.
My latest.
Today, he is a MAHA enabler, obsessed with strangers' genitals and endangering trans people to get attention on social media.
I want to lead by example and prove to him it's possible to not talk about trans people constantly.
My latest.
Really good, well worth the listen:
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
All about "reactionary centrism"
Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.
www.volts.wtf
January 31, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Really good, well worth the listen:
Tell me five classes you took in college:
History of Christianity (1 and 2)
Feminist Lit Criticism
History of Islamic Art
Photography 300
Intro to Astronomy (1 and 2)
History of Christianity (1 and 2)
Feminist Lit Criticism
History of Islamic Art
Photography 300
Intro to Astronomy (1 and 2)
Tell me five classes you took in college:
History of Jazz
Macroeconomics
Plant Physiology
African American History
Environmental Philosophy
History of Jazz
Macroeconomics
Plant Physiology
African American History
Environmental Philosophy
Tell me five classes you took in college:
Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology
Music Theory
American Studies
History of Consciousness/STSS
Quantum Physics
Cosmology
January 31, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Tell me five classes you took in college:
History of Christianity (1 and 2)
Feminist Lit Criticism
History of Islamic Art
Photography 300
Intro to Astronomy (1 and 2)
History of Christianity (1 and 2)
Feminist Lit Criticism
History of Islamic Art
Photography 300
Intro to Astronomy (1 and 2)
I’m not sharing or engaging with new Epstein materials (though I’m reading some) because I don’t want to spend time vetting stuff. I’m happy to let motivated reporters investigate and contextualize for us first, while I try to work up the concentration for some paleoart
January 31, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I’m not sharing or engaging with new Epstein materials (though I’m reading some) because I don’t want to spend time vetting stuff. I’m happy to let motivated reporters investigate and contextualize for us first, while I try to work up the concentration for some paleoart