Matthew Ackerman
matthew-ackerman.bsky.social
Matthew Ackerman
@matthew-ackerman.bsky.social
I am not a raccoon. 🦝
It is almost as if it science is predicated on the assumption that while reality is objective, our interpretion of it is not, and (too rarely) scientists figure out how to use reality to shake themselves free of poorly constructed beliefs.

Please be kind to me if I’m mistaken in that.
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 AM
I don’t know. I too found it disrespectfully for two academics to quesion whether a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist was “doing journalism” at all (22:00) but I guess they just did that cause they hate men?
February 1, 2026 at 11:34 PM
What about the project that Trump referred to as making “Transgendered mice”? I think looking honestly at science that is under attack, and understanding what it teaches us, could be a great project.
March 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Well, AI is generally anti authoritarian and economically liberal—willing to adjudicate Trump as an authoritarian and Musk as a source of disinformation, so if certain people start trusting it, would that really be bad?
March 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM