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PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Once more, Farage is claiming that he stood up in the European Parliament in early 2014 and predicted the Ukraine war. In fact, he stood up in September 2014, AFTER the annexation of Crimea, and blamed Europe for Putin's actions. I kept the receipts. Listen here 👇🏽 open.spotify.com/episode/77cz...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

There's a rumour that Nigel Farage is keeping his head down because he's off to a Trump cheerleading conference over the weekend. I’m afraid I’m being proved right- Farage is far more interested in Trump's success than British security. He is a bootlicker and a plastic patriot.

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What idiot called it a speculum and not a flap jack?

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

Here it is. You have to see it to believe it. www.threads.net/@factpostnew...

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

oh you have a machine that can consider a string of words and place the expected next word following it? that's cool. personally i'm a writer so i like to follow up a string of words with an unexpected one, but you do you

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I agree with Fiona on many things and I have always enjoyed her way of being provocative and charming at the same time but I disagree on this. Action is political but so is inaction.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 8 days ago • 539 comments

In 3 days, the number of measles cases in a highly unvaccinated area of Texas has doubled. There are now 48 cases, all of whom are unvaccinated, and 13 of whom have been hospitalized so far, for a hospitalization rate of 27%. This is huge figure in epidemiology. This outbreak will keep spreading.

submitted 8 days ago • 559 comments