Excited to announce that "Good thinking - why flawed logic puts us all at risk and how critical thinking can save the world" is released in America & Canada today, from @experimentbooks - an exploration of why we get things so badly wrong, from the comical to the catastrophic..

Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate. The perfect opportunity to remember the 1997 Macy's parade, when Barney the dinosaur committed public seppuku and the Cat in the Hat put someone into a Coma.. https://t.co/vGwxUVcBX6

Who the hell was stupid enough to think that giving Robert F Kennedy power over medical scientists would make him listen to them? No - mendacious idealouges like him always abuse that power to force their lies on everyone else. We fucking told you so https://t.co/6fbaNMjIJA

..the housing and cost of living crisis isn't being caused by immigrants or asylum seekers: it's a consequence of decades of poor governance, nimbyism, and greed. The hard right do not care about solutions, they just want a scapegoat to blame and resultant anger to direct.

Hard-right love "Ireland being overrun" narrative on immigration But as @fotoole notes, actual numbers small: here's log-plot of raw inward migration [2024-2025] in terms of Croke Park. As @CSOIreland explain, net immigration falling too.. https://t.co/lxq09kU7XU.

Antivaccine activists make it all up: 1. Said MMR causes autism. Debunked 2. Then it was thimerosal. Debunked 3. Then vaccine spacing. Debunked 4. Then aluminum in autism. Debunked 5. Now it’s peanut allergy They don’t care about you or your family. They despise humanity

..also, RJK Jr is *so much* worse than many of us realise, and is the most perversely unsuited person imaginable to hold such office. We must resist the temptation to accept any of this as normal, when it is frankly obscene

"Make America Healthy Again" will make not only America but the entire world sicker. RJK Jr and the MAGA movement are modern Lysenkoists, and the consequences of their anti-science agenda will be severe, as I write in @EMBO reports https://t.co/fSuLmGpNr9

So James Heathers and I answer the burning question: does Cake cause Herpes? No, but one can torture the data to give that impression, and that's a problem. Promiscuous dichotomisation in biomedical science hugely increases spurious findings, best avoided https://t.co/5yyifsAwlP

Seems everyone has a James Watson story. I met him when I was 27 in Oxford and he told me to fuck off after a joke at his expense, which admittedly I half deserved 🫠

Musk is descended from people who actually turned up in villages in Africa and stole from, raped and murdered the indigenous people - his wealth stems from the emerald mines his ancestors stole - here he peddles pure fiction, to sustain the racist system he owes everything to

..Celebrities can't even keep their own sex tapes secret, and they typically only involve 2 people.. 😬

So @KimKardashian - moon landings certainly happened. As I showed before, Apollo had >400k staff who'd need be complicit. Chances of them keeping it secret? Virtually zero. Probability of a celebrity saying something daft, alas, approaches unity🤪 https://t.co/xgytAFfGQS

To most Irish people, Mary McGee was the woman whose supreme court battle legalised contraception. To me, she was my aunt with a cheeky sense of humour & great laugh. Took this of her & my dad just a few weeks ago - RIP May, you'll be missed https://t.co/vQoLQXB6rC

After that AI slop from Mick Wallace, hope @catherinegalway rejects asinine nonsense from former compatriots, Wallace & Daly. As I wrote in @BylineTimes , their useful idiocy & propaganda vectoring is something she'll hopefully not enable as president https://t.co/EaBuolZAPA

To put numbers from presidential election in context, Connelly elected with 28.8% of electorate, while 5.8% of electorate spoiled their vote, ~13x higher rate than usual. Between spoils & abstention, ~60% of electorate implicitly rejected choices before them #Aras25

Social media users adopt the toxic behaviors of ingroup members An analysis of 7 million tweets from over 700,000 accounts find that exposures to toxic behavior by ingroup members is the primary driver of contagious toxicity online https://t.co/VGm2qZaXrW

..replies & QTs (predictably?) pretty appalling, but worth remembering many prominent "irish" anti-immigrant accounts were previously shown to be American. I did some background on this here, as X is a cesspit

..limiting replies to this because I cannot be arsed dealing with racist bots closer to Moscow than the m50. The fact that none agitation online uses real names is pretty telling tbh

Funny how the reprobates assaulting Garda in #Citywest get so worked up when they think an immigrant may have committed a crime, but don't give a damn otherwise. All this is just a figleaf for the worst people to pretend their racism is justified, or even laudable

Bizarre in a "free speech" country - that Kirk veered into conspiracy theory & religious cryptofascism is matter of public record. Going after people for this is like the apocryphal words of Galileo after his conviction for heresy "..and yet it moves.."