This is astonishingly disingenuous! Does Senator Cassidy recognize the arrogance, the insolence, the sheer contempt this reveals?

All science always turns out to be the foundation upon which better science is built. Science makes progress by always asking questions, and revising based on new evidence. Pseudoscience begins with an answer, interprets evidence to conform, and never contributes to knowledge.

Also quite a few more light-years 😉

Taste-testing the churros today...

When you see alarming health headlines, always ask:
– Has the study been peer-reviewed?
– Was it observational or experimental?
– How big was the actual risk difference?

Science takes time, and context matters!

That seems not to have been in his best interests, at least from a financial perspective: no tip, right?

Your article makes excellent points, and I hope it's read widely. One thing I might add is the need to distinguish factual statements from opinions. News media once made efforts to enforce the distinction, but it's increasingly left to each of us - and too many people don't even notice.

I was the first-listed author of a technical standard, solely by virtue of alphabetical order. It misrepresents the level of contributions of the committee members, so much so that I briefly considered resigning my role before publication.

"At best useless and at worst harmful" equally describes the remedies and the people behind them.

His proposed alternative is, of course, to trust people like him who have absolutely no expertise and haven't a clue what they're talking about. "Do your own research" means finding someone to tell you what you want to hear. That's not a feature of science. It's not a feature of democracy.

I was hoping to see a crescent cut at the end...

So, um, 'break a leg'?

Brava!

I initially mistook 'PoliMath' for polymath. Quite, quite different.

Fool's gold-standard

Vulnerability is not weakness. It is authenticity, it is human, it is an element of character. Thank you for sharing this.