PhD Social Psychology.
First generation American of Mexican descent. Reason, truth, Rostand, marksmanship, and Kate McKinnon.
I stand with – and in – the rain.
Imagine something as intellectually vapid as Scientology, but which also killed 100 million people. It's a disgrace that ideologies as easy to falsify as Marxism and socialism are still popular in American universities. Our colleges are anti-intellectual.
@fgonzalez1978
@JamesOKeefeIII
@Project_Veritas
Is there any explanation for their behavior? It makes no sense, and I can't recall a single episode like this at any political nonprofit ever. People suggest the timing points to the Pfizer story. How would Pfizer get them to do this? It's like they were blackmailed, but how?
@MattWalshBlog
A man's arrest record and warrants are irrelevant to whether we have the right to kill them in a given situation. I have no idea of the details here and I can't watch death videos – maybe the "hero" did the right thing or was justified, or not, but the man's record doesn't matter
NPR is saturated with incredibly feminine men. There's a profound cultural skew there. It's interesting to think of how much more interesting the programming would be if they had some masculine or at least non-feminine men.
The Wikipedia article on the lab leak theory. I had no idea it was this bad.
This is not an encyclopedia
@jimmy_wales
. Assertions that a theory "is informed by racist undercurrents", that its proponents are "fed by pseudoscience", and asserted motives. This is a leftist tabloid.
@jburnmurdoch
@DrJBhattacharya
is this the FT activist who falsely or misleadingly called a graph you posted "misinformation"? Or was that someone else?
@WhitlockJason
The first was awkward, creating a hidden African country far more scientifically advanced than rest of world, pointless fantasy historical fiction. Self-esteem should come from oneself, not history or fantasy. Black renaissance could happen now, in this world, with leadership.
@MrAndyNgo
@Wikipedia
They're completely hijacked. It's a serious problem for our civilization that we have this default search result that is Orwellian deception. Look at their COVID lab leak article. It's unbelievable.
Wikipedia lacks basic standards, has no mitigation for leftist bias.
@Devon_Eriksen_
@jk_rowling
There's some truth in the backstory you sketched, but you excluded essentially everything she cares about, and what most people fighting the leftist "trans" cult care about.
"Men in dresses invading women's spaces" isn't even scratching the surface, trivializes:
1. Female
@MeghanEMurphy
He doesn't act like a plant at all, and I don't think plants make much sense.
He's damn near perfect, courageous, articulate, smart, restrained. His billboards are understated, obvious messages. He talks to people calmly. How does this hurt the reality movement?
This is evil.
@moderna_tx
coordinated attacks on people reporting scientific results on harms of their shots.
It is INSANE to be biased about pharmaceutical product characteristics, harms, etc. the way leftist media, academia, government have been.
We should be open-minded.
1/
.
@moderna_tx
bankrolled the Orwellian "Public Goods Project" aimed at defaming mRNA vax critics.
@lhfang
reports that the company targeted me for tweeting a preprint by
@US_FDA
affiliated scientists that showed elevated seizure and myocarditis levels in kids after vax.
1/5
@EricAbbenante
From reading the transcript, I think Trump was referring to both sides of the **statue removal issue**. I agree, and I certainly oppose the removal of even Confederate statues, obviously not from any "white supremacy" angle.
@scarlett4kids
The edits were worse than that. They changed men to people in at least one case, and there was so much more. They even added material. It was vandalism.
They partly reversed, said they'll still publish the real books in addition to the vandalized ones.
They'll erase the past.
In the last few months we've learned that Fauci is near worst-case bad. It's unclear how much is incompetence, stupidity, a profound lack of rigor common in government science ponies, corruption... These people threw away decades of scientific norms, standards, meta-analysis, etc
@wesyang
This is a battle over reason itself and our commitment to reality. It's like the Asch line experiments where people would say lines were the same length when they obviously weren't, if everyone else did. Extremity is its own defense – we're still dealing with refusal to believe.
@EithanHaim
Doctor, has anyone written on the collapse of medical ethics in the terminology alone?
Plasty is reshaping, e.g. rhinoplasty, otoplasty, etc. Lots of readers likely struggle to follow your post because they're thinking a vaginoplasty is for women, like the labia surgeries.
1/
@wesyang
It's jarring the way leftists focus on what other people think. There are so many digs like this there they'll say "you're being criticized by everyone" or "no one agrees with you" or similar.
And they assume that we're all trying to get others' approval or respect. It's
@TM1Politics
The "trans girl"? You mean the boy. It's important to stop using Orwellian cult language. For one thing, many people still don't know what "trans girl" means – some think it means a girl who identifies as "trans" or as a boy.
If you give in to cult leftist language, you give
@DrJBhattacharya
Jay,
@PolitiFact
suddenly stopped fact checking
@maddow
when she made the wildly false claims about the COVID shots. They went radio silent on her, never fact checked her again (and didn't fact check that claim). They're just a leftist censorship org.
@EithanHaim
By the way, are you aware of the Texas doctors suing the Biden admin over the gender rule in Obamacare? Dr. Hurly recounted that he diagnosed a man with prostate cancer, but he refused to accept that he had a prostate because he "identified as" a woman.
@BrianMannADK
NPR is a far left outlet that embeds leftist ideology into its coverage, using proprietary leftist constructs in descriptive, journalistic text, like "systemic racism", unquoted, in an assertion that it is the cause of XYZ.
And the assertion won't be backed by an appropriate
Big story. There's no coverage by
@nytimes
,
@CNN
,
@wapo
or any other leftist media. I don't think they'll report a clean story about a country trying to censor political discourse in the dark, with no transparency or accountability, and Elon Musk saying no, risking profits.
BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK
I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway.
At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in
Leftist "gender" ideology has become a historically unprecedented collapse of scientific rigor & medical ethics. Activists at
@AmerMedicalAssn
and
@AmerAcadPeds
make stunningly false claims. You'd need mountains of ev. for this – they have scattered junk.
@againstgrmrs
A number of leftist media outlets like the
@sltrib
swept in immediately with false "fact checks" that didn't include any fact checking. They just quoted school officials trying to cover it up, while video and photos came out validating the claims. (Additional video, not this one.
@DrJBhattacharya
In every instance, "misinformation" researchers do nothing to establish the truth status of their "misinformation" items. Usually there's no explanation for why they think they're false; here they just treat the CDC as epistemically relevant. These are charlatans, no rigor at all
Incredible what a fascist menace the New York Times has become.
The Biden administration targeted *facts* like vaccine side effects and that the vax doesn't prevent infection, as well as opposition to forced vaccination – a policy stance.
@nytimes
deceives its readers here.
The
@nytimes
story on the ruling is so misleading.
Hey, Steven Lee Myers -- the Biden administration censored even true criticism of its covid policy. Did you read the court filings before writing your story?
@DrJBhattacharya
@cochranecollab
@nytimes
Jay, note that
@nytimes
cited a non-significant difference without disclosing that it wasn't significant – Danish study. She danced around it. Unbelievable.
She also didn't disclose no significant difference for cloth in useless Bangladesh study, or for surgical except elderly.
Non-Western cultures have zero idealism against racism. They're not against it. They definitely don't have the sentimentality & moral emotion that many Americans have.
It's clear that in many Muslim homes, they're taught that Jews are vermin who should be killed. She's not rare.
Amazing how a handful of underfunded people working outside of legacy media had to slowly uncover what Daszak, Anderson, Fauci, Thorpe,
@sciencecohen
have been covering up.
The behavior of the zoo people was revolting, and their political ideology is incompatible with science.
An order line for BsmBI in a draft of EcoHealth's 2018 DARPA proposal is the equivalent of a smoking gun.
There is no--zero--remaining room for reasonable doubt that EcoHealth and its associates caused the pandemic.
@MrAndyNgo
@ucdavis
@charliekirk11
@sacbee_news
Does Holzer still have a job there? The enormity of lying about someone calling for lynching humans... The things they say about outsiders, conservatives, non-leftists, etc. are extremely disquieting. They're the worst people I've ever encountered – baseline ethics are absent.
@indystar
Wow, the Star is corrupt. They just call this bill the "Don't Say Gay" bill. It's amazing. They're not even trying to be journalists anymore – they hired leftist activists.
We've got a problem.
For years it's been clear that Americans are delusional about the beliefs of minority cultures. They have no idea what goes on behind closed doors, in families, the dinner table conversations, what trad minorities are taught by their parents.
1/X
Sarah Chowdhury, an Illinois attorney in the state’s comptroller’s office, has been fired after her antisemitic social media messages were shared with her employer.
Here is a sampling.
Good article on why leftists have false beliefs about conservatives. The authoritarianism and SDO scales are invalid and rigged, and should never have been used. This is what happens when a field is leftists-only.
@JamesEsses
@networkrail
What's the psychology here? Why do they keep saying they're people, human, etc as though this is an argument for, what, men crashing women's sports? Mutilating kids? Men in women's prisons?
What do they think they're saying? Why don't they say more? It's such a strange cult.
@buttonslives
Who's responsible for the use of dishonest leftist trans activists at
@NBCNews
who made so many false claims. Last year NBC claimed there were dozens of studies finding psychological benefits of giving kids puberty blockers.
It was an incredible lie. Dozens of studies. There
@buttonslives
It sure looks ruined. And what do you mean by signs of aging? 29?
It really looks devastating, a thoroughly destructive change, almost as bad as what Nicole Kidman did to herself. How would you talk to someone whose face doesn't work properly anymore? It would be sadly awkward.
This turns out to be real. The
@nytimes
actually published a piece encouraging mating with short people to help "the" "environment".
The delusional beliefs leftists have about this "environment" issue are striking, that Earth will be uninhabitable, etc. It's a candidate disorder
@feelsdesperate
Jesus. Nice work. You can also add that three meals a day is racist. It's at the Nation, by the same lady who put "natural immunity" in scare quotes in another article headline, tied it to "the right" or something.
@buttonslives
I'm so confused. It only gets worse when you see her in film and series. It's awful. This is all going to be a dataset for future historians who can stomach the work. Destroying the face's ability to express itself, oneself, is ghastly.
@conor64
Remember the Yale student who screamed at
@NAChristakis
? How she reacted to him saying "I don't agree"?
That was a big clue that the left is a cult, not a mere ideology. It's in the nature of their constructs, which have no parallel anywhere else, the structure of their
I didn't know about this. This is beyond creepy, and a real threat to the health and future of American civilization. It's hard to accept as real, but leftists really are trying to silence non-leftist discourse. Conservatives mostly, but *all* non-leftist discourse is targeted.
Democracy means not just tolerating opinions we don’t like, but actively defending their right to exist. By dropping
@NEWSMAX
this week and OAN last year AT&Ts DirecTV is actively censoring conservative voices and fueling the fire of divisiveness that is tearing this country
@skdh
Last I saw, ≈20% of climate scientists dispute that warming is *mostly* due to human activity.
The >90% consensus figures depend on a different question wording – that human activity contributed to observed warming, not that it caused most. Popular consensus studies are junk.
@alx
@elonmusk
It had nothing to do with Twitter. Amazing dissembling by Fauci, that kind of corruption where the corrupt just say arbitrary words, which at least buys time and takes a chunk of time away from the host to probe.
@wesyang
I met her at Berkeley this month. She makes me feel like an underachiever and a wuss. She's absurdly articulate, even extemporaneously, and psychologically centered, serene, and cheerful in a way I've never seen in someone who just turned 19 (the day of her testimony in DC).
@preta_6
And non-binary is suffocating to me. I'm so against the binary that I won't even acknowledge it. I'm non-trinary, sometimes non-octal. When I go back to the desert to see family, I reconnect with my 7-spirit heritage: Man, woman, turtle, Jehovah, The Rock, Avril Lavigne, fetus.
@Riley_Gaines_
Sue them into vapor. Press charges against everyone involved in the assault and the false imprisonment/kidnapping.
Look up Schwarzenegger's false imprisonment suit against paparazzi when he couldn't leave the hospital. Yours is much stronger.
As many of them jailed as possible.
@TheFamousArtBR
Don't forget:
16. Are you a biologist?
17. (If yes) Are you an expert on "gender" biology?
18. Are you a doctor?
19. Why do you care?
20. Mind your own business!
21. Things change.
It's beyond disturbing what leftists have been doing to Kevin Bass, contacting his medical school, etc.
I think he says things like the lockdowns didn't work, authorities should've been more scientifically rigorous about vaccine efficacy, natural immunity, etc. Real fascist stuff
@LeorSapir
@UCSF
@UCSF_IHPS
@jack_turban
@thecassreview
All this talk of "evidence" is barbaric because it skips the issue of evidence of **what**?
Why would we care about a three point drop in a depression questionnaire administered before and six months later? Who cares?
Remember where we are. We're talking about drugging,
Jesus. Philosopher Mike Huemer's website was flagged and blocked as "hate speech" by whatever utility Starbucks uses. Unbelievable. The left has done enormous damage with this bogus concept. It's time to push back hard against leftist censorship.
The claim that the COVID shots prevent new variants from emerging was shocking. I'm not aware of a body of evidence for that. How would that work?
@CDCgov
is an incompetent, unscientific, deceitful, ideologically partisan organization, &
@CDCDirector
only talks to leftist media.
CDC says no records supporting COVID statement that "high vaccination coverage in a population reduces the spread of the virus and helps prevent new variants from emerging."
@DrJBhattacharya
@galexybrane
Incredible that they'd do this for experimental pharma that had existed for a few months at rollout.
It's disturbing how overnight we forgot that we don't know the long-term effects of experimental pharma, have no new methods there or anything. This is mindless, deeply unethical
@Riley_Gaines_
Rapinoe is one of the most evil human beings I've ever encountered in the public sphere. She led efforts to get her coach fired just a couple of years ago because of a comment about the players staying lean/not getting fat. She recalled thinking "you're so fired" when he said it.
@a_newsman
@ggreenwald
Who are those people? I'm so fascinated by "it's science". I wonder what he based that on. Mask efficacy was "science"? I assume this was in 2020? That's amazing. People are still unable to navigate even the simplest scientific issues, and masks was easy. We should've done trials
@SwipeWright
@ACPeds
I haven't read it. I hope they address the fact that we shouldn't even be talking about mutilating, sterilizing, or puberty blocking kids since no one discovered an innate "trans" identity, nor can they given the ideology, or kids' access to it.
Brilliant. Just brilliant. I had no idea.
If the school board objects to reading the porn in board meetings, it must be pulled from the school libraries.
Brilliant.
More winning!
@Moms4Liberty
just got pornographic books taken off school library shelves, thanks to a new Florida law which states that a school district must remove the books if the school board objects to them being read at their meetings.
The Biden administration was trying to shape and censor Americans' access to media at scale. Here they wanted to knock down the reach of the NY Post – the very outlet that broke the accurate Hunter Biden laptop/emails story.
No government should ever be allowed to do this.
For example, Flaherty questioned whether Facebook was doing enough to reduce traffic from sites like the
@nypost
.
“I’m curious – NY Post churning out articles every day... What is supposed to happen to that from Policy perspective. Does that article get a reduction, labels?”
@stkirsch
It's sleazy of him to refer vaguely to "vaccines" as such, bundling the COVID vaccines with polio, Tdap, etc. I'm still disoriented by this new claim or belief system that we know brand new pharma is safe long-term. In this case, it had existed for a few months on this planet.
@R_H_Ebright
This is incredibly Orwellian. I don't think it's possible to successfully communicate with the creeps who wrote this article, who think these statements belong in an encyclopedia. They're epistemic barbarians, too stupid for this.
We need a replacement for Wikipedia.
@MrAndyNgo
@Oxfam
I'm so tired of this garbage. As a group, leftists are the worst people we have.
OXFAM had a brief interval decades ago where they seemed unusually rational and smart for a charity. Now they're just appalling human beings. The left is a hateful, delusional, and harmful cult.
@MattWalshBlog
Note that children are indoctrinated in leftist trans ideology *first*. That alone is a stunning collapse of ethics. Telling K-3 that only they know their "gender", that there are infinitely many options, and then making them explicitly assert/discover one... My God.
@StopAAPIHate
Pattern? Do you have stats? A pattern requires data, not individual cases decades apart. The only pattern I'm aware of goes in the other direction – blacks disproportionately assault Asians and whites.
@alexstamos
But it wasn't all misinformation & why did you target conservatives only?
A StopTheSteal narrative is not misinformation or falsifiable – if someone appraises X amount of fraud as more consequential than you do, that's their right. And video not confirmed by your media ≠ false.
@NIHDirector
Politics is acid on science. The US government has no business embedding leftist ideology or any ideology in its science funding. It's also obvious that your centralization of the nation's biomedical and epidemiological research is harmful, e.g. Fauci's funding of conformists.
@writingblock
@GlobeIdeas
Solid. You missed the indoctrination in schools though. Kids are told they have a "gender" separate from sex (and that sex is "assigned" and a spectrum – just attacking reality comprehensively), that there are infinite "genders", are made to discover/assert theirs. K-3 Portland:
Jesus, it looks like van der Linden created sock puppets to create the Wikipedia article about himself, another one for his book, and more.
His collaborator Lewandowsky published fraudulent research, so this fits.
Don't trust leftist "misinformation researchers".
1/
This guy is a complete fraud / pathological liar. He's been repeatedly banned from wikipedia over the past 10+ years for using an army of sockpuppets to create articles about himself filled with self-promotional material.
@RogerPielkeJr
@NateSilver538
@annbauerwriter
Because of bodies, deaths. That crashes reasoning. Same with COVID. There should be a mandatory waiting period for Congress to pass laws after tragedies/crises. Those laws tend to suck – USA PATRIOT Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, gun control laws after shootings, RFK, etc.
@ProfNoahGian
No. Diversity in the leftist sense means lowering standards to bring more people in various categories that leftists prioritize, typically some races, women, and maybe trans-asserting people.
The impact is an empirical question, which you ignored, because truth isn't your goal.
@MorosKostas
The children claim is false. You let them get away with too much. Just go to CDC Wonder and run it yourself, ages 0-17. They scammed everyone by removing infants, and thus the 3 leading causes, and added 18-19 year old adults, doubling gun deaths
This is a deep structural problem. Leftists don't trust outsiders, cannot learn from them.
They're trained to marginalize outsiders, focus on *who* is saying something, not truth.
Their media is extremely unreliable, but they believe it. They don't trust themselves to think.
@DrJBhattacharya
All censorship should be transparent. When FB, YouTube, etc censor people or posts they should say why. It's hardly any work since if they censor someone they must know why. Secret censorship could easily crater civilization.
All government agencies should be transparent.
1/
@Rob_ThaBuilder
This is the same mom who did the hostage video with her daughter where she predicted with pleasure that her daughter would end up looking "hot" like her dad.
They're at home, and the daughter is extremely quiet and somewhat depressed, has little to say. They're going to some
@NateSilver538
What exactly does "bad faith" mean here, and in general?
Insincere? Bad person? It's a smear used almost exclusively by leftists to tag outsiders. There's nothing insincere or ignoble about being a conservative, libertarian, etc. Leftists don't seem to comprehend *disagreement*.
@sfchronicle
Such a creepy outlet. It's disturbing how leftists assert the inner motives of outsiders, non-leftists. Such a terrible ideology. And of course they start the title with the word Trump, call him a Trump judge.
The left is a real cult, which is obvious given the Stanford behavior
@NPR
Testosterone? Men & women have different bodies, structurally & morphologically. Men are stronger & faster even at the same weight. Did you just land on Earth? You thought the difference was due to *testosterone*?
What is wrong with leftists? They deny reality at a sensory level.
@cremieuxrecueil
This is several years out of date. I predict diversity efforts, typically under the DEI banner, lead to worse performance if people look at 2022 through 2024 and beyond. Through measurement might be hard if every major corporation folded to the leftist DEI cult. Maybe cross
@WomensSportsFdn
You want evidence that men are stronger and faster than women, even at the same weight? I don't understand. You're talking as if you don't know that men and women have structurally, morphologically different bodies, which is a big reason for men being stronger and faster. The
@garylfrancione
@PsychRabble
is at Rutgers. I think they jammed him up for reporting stereotypes are often accurate or something.
The prejudice against "right wing" is unscholarly. Ideas should be assessed on their merits – trans might be the first ideology with no content under the screams.
@SwipeWright
Not just Zionists. He also said "racists" and "fascists" don't deserve to live. That's you and me and most humans in leftist speak. Wanting a border, citing the crime data, rejecting false and evidence-free claims that an invisible force called "systemic racism" is the cause of
I don't like heuristics for science, but an admittedly good heuristic is that any academic research that advances leftist narratives is false.
Any claims about women actually being the hunters or warriors, or claims that "trans" people always existed even though it's a cult that
@ggreenwald
@StaceyPlaskett
@matttaibbi
Will anyone at legacy leftist media stand up and condemn this? Has anyone condemned what Democratic members of Congress did to Taibbi and Shellenberger?
What about the IRS visiting his house the day he testified? It was completely unheard of to do that, chilling.
@BrentScher
@washingtonpost
If that email is real, she should be fired. It's stunning how biased and loaded it is, starting with "dubious claims", then gets worse. Her questions aren't serious reporter questions – they're views cast as questions, if you asked ChatGPT to write it like a high school student.
I had no idea there were monsters like this lurking in American rivers, streams, and lakes. What in the world?
Anyone ever hear of "noodling" before Hannah Barron made it famous? I hadn't. When she said it, I thought it had to do with pasta.
I thought a 12 lb catfish was huge.
@DNSWilson
I don't read her as shocked. She's Orwellian, completely evaded the issue, recited leftist/coercensor ideology on "inclusion" and "diversity" and implied it wasn't actually in schools.
She also only spoke of teachers, ignoring that he was talking about school libraries.
@ggronvall
@lawfareblog
Gigi why didn't you review any evidence on lab origin or cite anyone? There's nothing here. You don't even mention the furrin cleavage site, DEFUSE, sampling, forensics, NIH FOIA docs, Fauci's deception/emails, cite Alina Chan or anyone. If I was doing this, I'd talk to experts.
This is surprising even for
@facebook
. Quillette is one of the largest of the upstart media/magazines. They publish lots of scholars, scientists, and journalists.
They're non-leftist, & Facebook targets non-leftists, but Quillette isn't "right" either. We need to marginalize FB.
It would be helpful if
@Meta
provided information on what "community violations"
@Quillette
has made. They don't provide a single example, but just inform me that our page cannot be monetised & is at risk of deletion. 🤷♀️
@shellenberger
@briebriejoy
@robbysoave
They censor science too, if leftist groups tag it as false, even foreign groups like you see with Hersh's article. One of Connolly's climate papers is censored, and this Nature article. I'm invisible on Facebook because I wouldn't remove journal articles:
@MrAndyNgo
@CommunityNotes
Yeah he's no "fact checker". He's a menace. His rate of false fact checks is so high that it might actually be the majority. He claimed his animation was scientific evidence that COVID couldn't have leaked from a Chinese government lab 9,000 miles away.