Andreas De Block
@DeblockBlock
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Philosopher. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
Leuven, Belgium
Joined December 2013
Stop funding research (the way you do) Because it is wasteful, unethical and unscientific A thread (1/16)
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Science is self-correcting... after you beat it with a stick, electrocute it, draw and quarter it, and then burn it at the stake. @Thatsregrettab1
New post, link in reply. "In this essay, I highlight how three of the reviews (from Nature, in 2019, which rejected it) of our proposal to replicate a famous study all argued that we should not do so, a profoundly antiscientific attitude towards … science."
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"RFK Jr. looks like Mel Gibson if he were microwaved." Best thing I read on the internet today.
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Wie @pieterdecrem verdedigt, verdedigt dat onze politici willekeurig en onwettig onze rechten mogen inperken, omdat we tot een groep behoren die hen niet aanstaat. Dan ben je dus tegen de rechtsstaat en de fundamentele rechten en vrijheden van burgers.
Eerst onze mensen, is geen misdaad! ➡️ Pieter De Crem verlaat terecht de CD&V. Onder Sammy Mahdi is er niets Christelijk, democratisch of Vlaams meer aan de CD&V.
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If, like me, you want to defend the basic institutions and ideals of liberal democracy, you’ve got to get out of the habit of explaining away all opposition to them as the result of “propaganda”, “social media”, or “misinformation”. The objective failures, biases, and hypocrisy
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This post contains a pinned answer to all of the inane & repetitive pro-tariff talking points on this site, so that I don't have to waste any more time responding to them. You will find the answers below, and if you continue pestering me anyway with the same inane talking points,
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A common type of ant in Europe breaks a fundamental rule in biology: its queens can produce male offspring that are a whole different species https://t.co/2vgdjcuFPH
nature.com
Nature - Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.
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The grave of Gene Simmers, United States soldier and Vietnam veteran, who passed away in 2022
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My review of Sex is a Spectrum by Agustín Fuentes:
blog.edhagen.net
Does Sex is a Spectrum offer a bold new paradigm for understanding the biology of sex?
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RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection
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Some thoughts from @TheFIREorg's @glukianoff on the recent New York Times piece featuring the organization—and an extended response to the claims of one Jason Stanley: https://t.co/Xey8AyT0jF
eternallyradicalidea.com
And a response to Jason Stanley’s claim that the crisis on campus for the last 10 years has been a “moral panic”
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Ian Hacking’s concept of “unhappy people” is useful here. You can acknowledge the hurt and discontent of the unhappy while still being able to critique how that unhappiness is channelled into self-defeating identities and narrow political projects.
A false dichotomy. Misrule can easily breed forms of discontent that are obscurantist and self-defeating. Particularly when worked on by an entrepreneurial element. But ‘beliefs’ are not the core issue. 1/
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I do wish our intelligentsia weren’t currently radicalising themselves in a 2018 simulator on another platform, while on this one the world’s richest man radicalises himself based on whatever content is currently going viral, but this appears to be the world we live in.
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Eindelijk ! Het gaat nog niet over écht grote getallen maar alle begin is moeilijk.
For a long time renewable energy uptake in Africa was lacklustre at best. But that is changing: Solar panel imports to Africa have surged over the past year—a shift poised to touch nearly every country on the continent as new @ember_energy analysis shows.
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Many people thought we'd make more advances in the social sciences than we've managed to do. Physicist Dennis Gabor in 1967: "If it were up to me, I wouldn't let a single first-class talent go into physics or chemistry. I'd put them into psychology."
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vrij naar Steven Weinberg die schreef: “The insights of philosophers have occasionally benefited physicists, but generally in a negative fashion, by protecting them from the preconceptions of other philosophers.”
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De inzichten van sommige filosofen hebben de samenleving misschien geholpen, maar dan hooguit op een negatieve manier, dat wil zeggen door haar te beschermen tegen de vooringenomen ideeën van andere filosofen.
@VanDammeEDU Bescherm je bloeddruk en stop met in de Standaard stukken te lezen van filosofen, sociologen en pol&soc'ers. Hun bijdrage aan het debat is meestal toxisch, of grenzeloos naïef, of beide.
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Schabouwelijk stuk. De auteur verwijt de harde knip dat die zonder veel bewijs is ingevoerd, maar hij levert zelf niet het minste bewijs voor zijn stelling dat die de ongelijkheid vergroot. Onderzoek toont net het tegendeel aan. https://t.co/QWmpHXjmO8
standaard.be
De harde knip is een niet-onderbouwde maatregel waar iedereen voor zal betalen, schrijft Warre Thevelin. Behalve de studiebegeleiders.
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This year I finally got the chance to get rid of all the traditional stuff from my epistemology course and just do political epistemology. Excited to teach this. Suggestions on things to include or replace welcome.
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The revolution is here
I’m excited to share the first part of an absolutely stunning analysis from the GPT-5 thinking model! I uploaded a huge spreadsheet, nearly 1,300 metabolites (lipids, carbohydrates, microbiome-derived compounds, and much more) measured in 150 ME/CFS patients and 100 healthy
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Why do people think they can reliably detect AI-generated essays when empirical studies consistently show the opposite?
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