Snapshots from a presentation I recently did at SkeptiCamp NM 2026.

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If a conclusion or narrative truly has merit, you shouldn't need to use factually incorrect or misleading premises to argue on its behalf. If a conclusion or narrative doesn't truly have merit, you shouldn't want to argue on its behalf, let alone believe it. That's why fact checking is important.

Dr. Zachary Rubin skewers Dr. Oz's $100 million "MAHA Elevate" program, which will promote "functional medicine", a marketing term typically used to sell quackery

Of course. 😭

As I and others have been screaming from the rooftops since before he was even officially sworn in. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Kennedy's first year in HHS has been an abysmal failure by any objective, serious standard. Details in the article. "Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure" via @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#ozone #CFCs

See previous post for more details.

This movie/book plot seems familiar. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Sometimes the content more or less creates itself. #science #covidmyths #pseudoscience

You may have heard that the Trump administration repealed the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS). The EPA issued a final rule that rolls back to 2012 Standards and replaces the stricter Biden-era mercury limits with more lenient 2012 standards.

They didn't see that coming!

Stop listening to Big Geology 😜

A comparative overview article of the dark matter hypothesis & its leading competitor: MOND. An abridged history of the subject is given & a description of the observations & theoretical problems that motivated these hypotheses & of how they purport to resolve these problems. tinyurl.com/2vjvwwnt

#vaccines #VaccinesSaveLives

#TrooFakts #satire

Tough call. 🙄

#psychology #cognitiveneuroscience #buddhistphilosophy (Art by Dave Coverly at Speedbump Comics)

There's definitely some pattern recognition happening here though! Side note: the first problem is actually only true for the right-hand limit. The general limit doesn't actually exist since the left-hand limit = -∞ ≠ ∞. #calculus #mathhumor

Technically, all toads are frogs but not all frogs are toads, & all tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises. Phylogenetically, alligators & crocodiles are grouped into the same order (crocodylia), but different families (alligatoridae & crocodylidae). By @mrlovenstein.bsky.social

And you know Abe would never tell a lie after that cherry tree incident with the lighting rod kite on the grassy knoll. 😉 #skepticism #FactChecking #satire

Probably still not bigger than the less-regulated wellness industry. However, treating & managing conditions caused by the diseases does tend to generate more revenue than preventing them with one-time (or infrequent) vaccines, at least insofar as short term shareholder benefit. HT ScigasmPodcast

My first new article on my website in nearly 6 years: "Why Dark Matter? Why not Modified Gravity? (~ 5,100 words) www.crediblehulk.org/index.php/20...

I was almost certain this was meant as a joke, but apparently they are real and are sometimes referred to as "Faraday Hats." Cue the "Foil" song by Weird Al Yankovic. #tinfoilhats #faradayhats

By Kate Leth [https://goo.gl/vkFYqz].

In-group/out-group bias. Extra Fabulous Comics

In this case, however, it was easy to find that it was from a retracted study and to read about what it was deemed flawed. #science #VaccinesWork

I figure that I spend enough time refuting nonsense like this that I might as well leverage some of it into some more content to post. #science #VaccinesWork

Shamelessly stolen from the comments section of a post from yesterday. #science #VaccinesWork

Patch notes from game programmers be like...

Zero citations provided (credible or otherwise), just as we've come to expect from this dispicable shitshow.

I resent that. I'm only toxic if you approach or exceed my LD50.

Mistrust and conspiracy mentality have always been cornerstones of the anti-vaccine movement. It is a movement driven by ideology, not evidence. And it is a movement predicated on science illiteracy and dependent on pseudoscience to advance its 200+ year-old harmful narrative.

Meme from The Little Black Duck

While I sit in the hospital next to my patients who experience severe depression and suicidal thoughts, I’ll be sure to tell them to eat more steak and eggs. 👍

While estimates vary, roughly 1.5 - 2.5% of women died during childbirth prior to hospital births with modern medical technology becoming common. Now, in developed countries, it's on the order of 5 in every 100,000. Don't listen to unqualified grifters confidently talking out their asses. #science

"Friendly reminder: if you ever feel imposter syndrome creeping in, just watch a few clips of RFK Jr. explaining “science.” Confidence is not the same as competence, and somehow, that’s both terrifying and reassuring." - @rubinallergy.bsky.social #science #impostersyndrome #doctor

Cue the Buzz Lightyear "years of academy training wasted!" meme.

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