There is so much about this opinion piece from Griffis that is upsetting but this part makes me apoplectic. archive.ph/aGUUO This is called policy-based evidence-making. It is among the most abhorrent practices of antiscience people, working to weaponize confirmation bias to grant... - ThreadSky

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enirenberg.bsky.social • 50 days ago

There is so much about this opinion piece from Griffis that is upsetting but this part makes me apoplectic.
https://archive.ph/aGUUO

This is called policy-based evidence-making. It is among the most abhorrent practices of antiscience people, working to weaponize confirmation bias to grant...

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springrainbloom.bsky.social•50 days ago

Would you like to scream with me? I’m open to just yelling, or to using words. My go to phrase for the last five years as I scream into the void has been, “you’re doing it wrong!”

ro6air3.bsky.social•50 days ago

Tell Musk. Perhaps he’ll fire RFK and close the dept. “to save billions from fraud”.

enirenberg.bsky.social•50 days ago

the verisimilitude of rigor for one's preferred ideas. This is not how anything should work. It is profoundly unacceptable that this is happening at the nation's nerve center for public health. These experts have so much work to do in response to the numerous infectious disease threats we face.

enirenberg.bsky.social•50 days ago

Instead, they are stuck browsing Pubmed for articles supporting the use of cod liver oil in the treatment of measles.

Such efficiency.

Such effective use of resources.

It's like watching the Hindenburg in slow motion.

Inmates running the asylum understates the absurdity of the moment.

vvsmider.bsky.social•50 days ago

So much for disproving the null hypothesis…the way it’s supposed to work…

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