Nicholas Cook

Writer. Lactose is the bane of my existence. (He/They)

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@TheEmilyBloom Sorry if I've missed it and you've said before, but what program are you doing?

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@PDegance @ryangrim Estimates vary, but on the whole, the various Covid vaccines almost certainly saved *millions* of lives.

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@leftyvegan @mehdirhasan @grok This is it: https://t.co/IcMcEyks9b

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@Chris_H_Politic Zionists when someone accidentally gets a Nazi-affiliated tattoo, then removes it: "Hitler! Irredeemable!"

Zionists when Israel massacres thousands of children: "This is good actually!"

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@Wilson__Valdez It's literally just very basic class analysis. Like, I first understood this when I was 12.
I'm guessing you're a good bit older than that, but I guess we all learn at different rates.

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

Is this really the level some college students are writing at nowadays? This is how I was writing when I was 12, maybe younger.

[Aidan Kohn-Murphy @AidanKohnMurphy]

however bad you’re imagining this essay to be, it’s sooo much worse. cannot believe a college student wrong this. 0/25 seems somehow generous lmao

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@Adict_fli @Hezbolsonaro Maybe do the slightest bit of research and/or fact-checking before the headlines from crank websites turn you into a conspiracy theorist?

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@Niceguyeddie616 @ashleylynch No, he's alive and doing well. He's @ModdedQuad on here.

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@DJSnM @astrobotic The beefy arm... coming out of the back of his neck there.

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@pochemuchkakot @jessiegender Consider doing literally anything else than purity testing people who already agree with your position... might be more helpful.

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@SocialistSoy The sad fact is that there is almost no experimental rigour in a large portion of psychology. If you see a broad claim that isn't couched in a particular context and with proper controls and statistical power, you can pretty safely discard it.

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@Potatopolitics We stan an anosmic queen

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

Hey my medicine and public health people!

How much do you know about eugenics?

Just old pseudoscience, you say?

Any idea how much it continues to influence us?

Answer: A LOT.

I taught a class on the history of eugenics and public health today. Here's what we covered: 🧵

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@jessiegender ...wasn't SG-1 pretty explicit in saying that the goa'uld took on the auspices of gods and other cultural figures in order to enhance their credibility as rulers, not that they originated the cultures? Their whole thing was stealing tech and culture from others.

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@joeblow87423561 Why would the fact that they can be changed make them a poor definition?

When we are talking about "biological sex" in the human context, we are usually using it in the sense of genitals and secondary sexual characteristics (breasts, facial hair, etc.).

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@joeblow87423561 @christapeterso @lastpositivist Chromosomes are only one of several traits that together constitute what we think of as "biological sex". They, and particularly gametes, don't map too well to a spectrum, but other sex traits (hormones, genitals, etc.) do.

[Nicholas Cook @Nicholas_A_Cook]

@InnuendoStudios Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West. Just an incredible, bombastic album that tugs at the heartstrings.