Weighing in on this debate: 1) Tackling pseudoscience properly (not in a drive-by fashion) can teach critical thinking skills and basic scientific concepts to a public that desperately needs it.
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Prasad is both wrong in thinking it's easy, and also implying a sort of puritanical belief that something's being easy makes it shameful.
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As a layperson, I think Dr. Prasad also underestimates the value of “flooding the zone” with correct information.
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Yes, that's the information deficit model, which posits that people believe misinformation because of a lack of access to correct information and science and this misinformation can be countered work good inform.
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Hey @The_Measles Be great if you post updates on your location from time to time so I can avoid you
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Eg:Clare Craig claims FPR 57% in study she doesn’t give a proper reference to-took an hour to find what she probably is talking about , another minute to calculate the FPR as 0.8% -figure out she actually calculated the PPV lifetime to understand how people think she is crediblepic.twitter.com/xRTXfnLgv0
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That’s preview to a coming debunk ... Brandolini s law always applies - hard to understand and debunk that which is fundamentally a flight of illogical ideashttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law …
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Hey! Can you help me design a study to test this hypothesis? Increased use of Aluminum containing vaccines is associated with increased mitochondrial dysfunction in children.
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