You see, these people consider themselves Skeptics.
Under-the-weather TikTokers are slicing raw potatoes and placing them in their — and their children’s — socks before bed. The theory is that the potato draws out toxins.
However, experts warn against relying on folk remedies over medical care.
However, experts warn against relying on folk remedies over medical care.
No, putting a potato in your sock will not cure a cold
TikTokers are placing slices of raw potatoes in their — and their children’s socks — overnight to cure illnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
You see, these people consider themselves Skeptics.
i somehow stumbled across AI skeptics on LinkedIn and it is honestly so refreshing to have balanced takes (read: not negative doomer takes), so tired of the regurgitation of unoriginal thoughts. having ppl at work trust me (AI curious) with their skepticism is actually such an honor, i value them.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
i somehow stumbled across AI skeptics on LinkedIn and it is honestly so refreshing to have balanced takes (read: not negative doomer takes), so tired of the regurgitation of unoriginal thoughts. having ppl at work trust me (AI curious) with their skepticism is actually such an honor, i value them.
to be clear I am not saying SF-LA is getting built this year, I am saying that is currently the savvy position to take for skeptics of the project because we’ve now passed a bunch of other milestones for the project (like laying track) that people used make fun of
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
to be clear I am not saying SF-LA is getting built this year, I am saying that is currently the savvy position to take for skeptics of the project because we’ve now passed a bunch of other milestones for the project (like laying track) that people used make fun of
Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.
November 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Ironically, the only people anyone believes these days are the skeptics.
bad week for everyone is twelve skeptics as i go about my day randomly pausing from what i'm doing and go "i am twelve".
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
bad week for everyone is twelve skeptics as i go about my day randomly pausing from what i'm doing and go "i am twelve".
Clear-eyed sober people like Sherilyn Ifil say that on the filibuster fight they had the votes of the every Dem except Manchin & Sinema, that people who had been skeptics came around.
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Clear-eyed sober people like Sherilyn Ifil say that on the filibuster fight they had the votes of the every Dem except Manchin & Sinema, that people who had been skeptics came around.
It’s never been more important to acknowledge nonreligious and non-Christian veterans — including the proverbial “atheists in foxholes” — given the Pentagon’s recent attacks on the constitutional separation between religion and government. ffrf.us/4p7Si66
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists
theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...
theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...
Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists
Gates recently called for a ‘strategic pivot’ in climate strategy. That appears to have hit a nerve.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Why Bill Gates’ climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists
theconversation.com/why-bill-gat...
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I really wish people I like on here would stop reposting anything Justin "You're Too Stupid to Understand AI, You Plebs" Wolfers writes. There have to be other good economists who don't platform AI and treat AI skeptics as idiots.
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I really wish people I like on here would stop reposting anything Justin "You're Too Stupid to Understand AI, You Plebs" Wolfers writes. There have to be other good economists who don't platform AI and treat AI skeptics as idiots.
The folks at MITRE deal with software security as their entire livelihood, and they have a good vantage point to understand this kind of thing. Here’s a good article that doesn’t say anything novel, but it says it all very well and in one place. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The folks at MITRE deal with software security as their entire livelihood, and they have a good vantage point to understand this kind of thing. Here’s a good article that doesn’t say anything novel, but it says it all very well and in one place. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...
These studies allowed me to easily dismiss astrology, but decades later, as a student these tests help test my assumptions
I recognize one of these studies, and what it determined, that sun sign horoscopes are not adequate to predict personality, is now common among astrologers and skeptics
I recognize one of these studies, and what it determined, that sun sign horoscopes are not adequate to predict personality, is now common among astrologers and skeptics
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
These studies allowed me to easily dismiss astrology, but decades later, as a student these tests help test my assumptions
I recognize one of these studies, and what it determined, that sun sign horoscopes are not adequate to predict personality, is now common among astrologers and skeptics
I recognize one of these studies, and what it determined, that sun sign horoscopes are not adequate to predict personality, is now common among astrologers and skeptics
The skeptics movement? That rings a bell...
Is that the group that could have been important during a pandemic and with a serially dishonest administration, but instead drove itself to irrelevance in order to avoid accountability for its predatory white male leadership?
I faintly remember that...
Is that the group that could have been important during a pandemic and with a serially dishonest administration, but instead drove itself to irrelevance in order to avoid accountability for its predatory white male leadership?
I faintly remember that...
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The skeptics movement? That rings a bell...
Is that the group that could have been important during a pandemic and with a serially dishonest administration, but instead drove itself to irrelevance in order to avoid accountability for its predatory white male leadership?
I faintly remember that...
Is that the group that could have been important during a pandemic and with a serially dishonest administration, but instead drove itself to irrelevance in order to avoid accountability for its predatory white male leadership?
I faintly remember that...
I don't think Lester was cynical nor bitter.
Skeptical, absolutely, but not cynical. Cynics believe in nothing, and skeptics want to see things proven to be true.
Cranky, maybe, but not bitter.
And he wasn't a rat. He was a man in a rat suit playing a man in a rat suit.
Know the differences.
Skeptical, absolutely, but not cynical. Cynics believe in nothing, and skeptics want to see things proven to be true.
Cranky, maybe, but not bitter.
And he wasn't a rat. He was a man in a rat suit playing a man in a rat suit.
Know the differences.
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I don't think Lester was cynical nor bitter.
Skeptical, absolutely, but not cynical. Cynics believe in nothing, and skeptics want to see things proven to be true.
Cranky, maybe, but not bitter.
And he wasn't a rat. He was a man in a rat suit playing a man in a rat suit.
Know the differences.
Skeptical, absolutely, but not cynical. Cynics believe in nothing, and skeptics want to see things proven to be true.
Cranky, maybe, but not bitter.
And he wasn't a rat. He was a man in a rat suit playing a man in a rat suit.
Know the differences.
This is the greatest opportunity the skeptics movement has ever had.
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All fucking full of shit'
Kim Kardashian slams psychics who told her she'd pass the bar exam: 'All f---ing full of s---'
'All f---ing full of s---': Kim Kardashian has some choice words for the psychics who predicted she'd pass the bar exam.
ew.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is the greatest opportunity the skeptics movement has ever had.
📰 The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes
💬 Skeptics clash with wishful thinking in a broken info landscape. Can podcasts like TT be trusted? 🤔 Overall sentiment: skeptical.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887105
💬 Skeptics clash with wishful thinking in a broken info landscape. Can podcasts like TT be trusted? 🤔 Overall sentiment: skeptical.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887105
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
📰 The Perplexing Appeal of the Telepathy Tapes
💬 Skeptics clash with wishful thinking in a broken info landscape. Can podcasts like TT be trusted? 🤔 Overall sentiment: skeptical.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887105
💬 Skeptics clash with wishful thinking in a broken info landscape. Can podcasts like TT be trusted? 🤔 Overall sentiment: skeptical.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45887105
“Environmental exposure to random chemicals” is exactly what UFPs being omnipresent in the food supply is, my dude!
Consume whatever you like people. Living itself is dangerous & unhealthy. but please just don’t tell me bullshit. This is like arguing w climate change skeptics
Consume whatever you like people. Living itself is dangerous & unhealthy. but please just don’t tell me bullshit. This is like arguing w climate change skeptics
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“Environmental exposure to random chemicals” is exactly what UFPs being omnipresent in the food supply is, my dude!
Consume whatever you like people. Living itself is dangerous & unhealthy. but please just don’t tell me bullshit. This is like arguing w climate change skeptics
Consume whatever you like people. Living itself is dangerous & unhealthy. but please just don’t tell me bullshit. This is like arguing w climate change skeptics
criticize all you like but the link b/w UPF as defined by that framework and negative health outcomes is *extensively* evidenced & documented by actual peer reviewed academics.
Imo that means more than the opinion of “FuzzyMike2007” or whoever. This is like arguing w climate change skeptics jfc
Imo that means more than the opinion of “FuzzyMike2007” or whoever. This is like arguing w climate change skeptics jfc
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
criticize all you like but the link b/w UPF as defined by that framework and negative health outcomes is *extensively* evidenced & documented by actual peer reviewed academics.
Imo that means more than the opinion of “FuzzyMike2007” or whoever. This is like arguing w climate change skeptics jfc
Imo that means more than the opinion of “FuzzyMike2007” or whoever. This is like arguing w climate change skeptics jfc
ME IN 2016: "oh my Jesus Lord he said that?! It's OVER!"
ME TODAY:
::imagines NYTimes headline:: PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES NUANCED COMPARISON BETWEEN AWARDS. TRUMP SKEPTICS ARE CRITICAL.
ME TODAY:
::imagines NYTimes headline:: PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES NUANCED COMPARISON BETWEEN AWARDS. TRUMP SKEPTICS ARE CRITICAL.
Trump: We gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It’s much better than the Congressional Medal of Honor because soldiers get the Congressional. And they’re in very bad shape because they're dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they’re rated equal
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
ME IN 2016: "oh my Jesus Lord he said that?! It's OVER!"
ME TODAY:
::imagines NYTimes headline:: PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES NUANCED COMPARISON BETWEEN AWARDS. TRUMP SKEPTICS ARE CRITICAL.
ME TODAY:
::imagines NYTimes headline:: PRESIDENT TRUMP GIVES NUANCED COMPARISON BETWEEN AWARDS. TRUMP SKEPTICS ARE CRITICAL.
I do a lot of interviews for Trending in Ed, but my conversation with Carlo Rotella stands out as particularly insightful. Carlo's book What Can I Get Out of This? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics is a must-read for anyone teaching #GenZ youtu.be/ARN45hSL3V8
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I do a lot of interviews for Trending in Ed, but my conversation with Carlo Rotella stands out as particularly insightful. Carlo's book What Can I Get Out of This? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics is a must-read for anyone teaching #GenZ youtu.be/ARN45hSL3V8
Often I hear both-sidesing over true believers and skeptics, but that side-steps the hard questions. "How does the training data and model support this usage?" "How does the hybrid model's error rate compare to a fully human process?" "Do *you* want to read text that no one cared to write?"
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Often I hear both-sidesing over true believers and skeptics, but that side-steps the hard questions. "How does the training data and model support this usage?" "How does the hybrid model's error rate compare to a fully human process?" "Do *you* want to read text that no one cared to write?"
Justin Perkins, #Presbyterian missionary, says nonbelievers were created by the evils of American slavery. Likewise, tyrants are encouraged to reject faith and democracy.
Some point to unpopularity of US at the UN as evidence that the countries hate God.
How can you witness to Christ?
#Christian
Some point to unpopularity of US at the UN as evidence that the countries hate God.
How can you witness to Christ?
#Christian
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Justin Perkins, #Presbyterian missionary, says nonbelievers were created by the evils of American slavery. Likewise, tyrants are encouraged to reject faith and democracy.
Some point to unpopularity of US at the UN as evidence that the countries hate God.
How can you witness to Christ?
#Christian
Some point to unpopularity of US at the UN as evidence that the countries hate God.
How can you witness to Christ?
#Christian
Having been on the inside, I know exactly how to advocate. You are never supposed to cast aspersions on members, you are supposed to smile and say hello to their staff, you try to work with them and turn them from skeptics to advocates.
These people work for us! And their behavior is criminal.
These people work for us! And their behavior is criminal.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Having been on the inside, I know exactly how to advocate. You are never supposed to cast aspersions on members, you are supposed to smile and say hello to their staff, you try to work with them and turn them from skeptics to advocates.
These people work for us! And their behavior is criminal.
These people work for us! And their behavior is criminal.
Now that everyone is re-embracing HRT can’t resist a shoutout to my mom who was originally skeptical of the skeptics and published this encouraging research in JAMA about estrogen and brain function… jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Effect of Estrogen on Brain Activation Patterns in Postmenopausal Women During Working Memory Tasks
Context Preclinical studies suggest that estrogen
affects neural structure and function in mature animals; clinical
studies are less conclusive with many, but not all, studies showing a
positive influ...
jamanetwork.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Now that everyone is re-embracing HRT can’t resist a shoutout to my mom who was originally skeptical of the skeptics and published this encouraging research in JAMA about estrogen and brain function… jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Don’t send text screenshots 🙅, AI’s next frontier 🌍, memory safety for skeptics ⚡️
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November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Don’t send text screenshots 🙅, AI’s next frontier 🌍, memory safety for skeptics ⚡️ Receiving screenshots of text from colleagues instead of copy-pasted text, code files, or error logs...
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