Clearly, I don’t understand reposting… But I do love the below thread on how science (eugenics here) can get things very very wrong. Skepticism and re-verifying results is undervalued in our publish-at-all-costs academic environment. If we don’t practice those things, we are “cafeteria” scientists.

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Would you still love me if I was a worm?

This is rad.

A few years ago I represented a Black family that was in foreclosure. For years, they'd been paying more than the minimum monthly payment, yet every month both their monthly payment and total owed got bigger anyway. The bank's lawyers said it was an example of laziness,

NEW—After an innocent protester was shot and killed at the Salt Lake City No Kings protest by a “safety volunteer,” @utah50501.bsky.social says they hired team of them based on “military, first responder, other relevant de-escalation experience.” Volunteer who fired gun was a vet.

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I educated multiple people today about puberty blockers, and at the end of every conversation, folks generally reacted with “wait, and people are mad about that?”