The Desi Science Page

We aim to promote science as a way of thinking, curiosity, rationality, philosophy, critical thinking, scientific skepticism & sentientism/humanism

[The Desi Science Page @desisciencepage]

A thread with links to the various other threads on different topics:

Alt med: https://t.co/YhSRJKBjVk

Evidence/ScienceVsPseudoscience: https://t.co/Vxo9FQEmry

Logical fallacies: https://t.co/Z7S9kNsFoI

Crit thinking: https://t.co/XL6Lfs7S0u

Beliefs: https://t.co/zsBSfIBIQ3

[The Desi Science Page @desisciencepage]

The Surprising Ways We Form Beliefs (via @Thinkingpowers)

https://t.co/4dh1WPlxZz

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Looks familiar 😀

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

I've been looking for a four leaf clover my entire life and this is the first time I've found one!!!

[The Desi Science Page @desisciencepage]

Science is the poetry of reality

https://t.co/1RfjSdSvqU

[The Desi Science Page @desisciencepage]

We were hibernating a bit!

So, what’s happening here?

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.”

— Carl Sagan

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Hello everyone, please spare a few minutes and let's reminisce about our place in the cosmos.

- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

[Dr. Shubham Misra शुभम मिश्रा🧠⚛️🇮🇳🇺🇸 @Shubham_Neuro]

Thank you for the mention @HemostasisToday 🙏🙏

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

If the biologists aren't going to stand up to the pseudoscience being promoted within their own community, it's up to the rest of us to do it.

[The Desi Science Page @desisciencepage]

This!

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

The only "agenda" science should serve is the pursuit of an objective description of nature.

[Will Kinney @WKCosmo]

Science isn't "western" or "indigenous" or "colonial" or "decolonized". The only arbiter of truth is experiment, no matter who you are.

[The Desi Science Page @desisciencepage]

New on the reading list 📖

“Are we alone in the cosmos? The question should have an obvious answer: yes or no. But once you try to find life somewhere else, you realize it is not so straightforward, Welcome to the world of science, which always starts with a (deceptively simple) question”

— Alien Earths by @KalteneggerLisa

[The Desi Science Page @desisciencepage]

This!

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

If you proclaim yourself a sceptic or a science educator, you can’t pick & choose which dogmas you denounce & ridicule and which ones you defend under the umbrella of kindness.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

If you proclaim yourself a sceptic or a science educator, you can’t pick & choose which dogmas you denounce & ridicule and which ones you defend under the umbrella of kindness.

[Isomorphic Labs @IsomorphicLabs]

We were thrilled to welcome Nobel laureate and member of our Scientific Advisory Board Venki Ramakrishnan to @IsomorphicLabs in London this week. Our Structural Bioinformatics team leader Adrian Stecula led a riveting fireside chat that explored how diverse perspectives drive innovation and the challenges of identifying true breakthroughs amid technological revolutions.

[Deutsch Explains @DeutschExplains]

"Rational criticism compares rival theories with the aim of finding which of them offers the best explanations according to the criteria inherent in the problem."

@DavidDeutschOxf, The Fabric of Reality. —Chapter 3: Problem-solving.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.”

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

Introducing AlphaGenome: an AI model to help scientists better understand our DNA – the instruction manual for life 🧬

Researchers can now quickly predict what impact genetic changes could have - helping to generate new hypotheses and drive biological discoveries. ↓

[Karl Popper Quotes @QuotePopper]

"Scientific research is the best method we have for obtaining information about ourselves and about our ignorance."

— Karl Popper, In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years, Routledge, 1992, p. 79.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

The science between genetically engineered food crops and medical therapeutics is the same.

But our reactions? Completely irrational.

We cheer when gene editing saves a child from leukemia.

We panic when it saves a child from blindness through vitamin A-enriched rice.

CAR T cell therapy rewires your immune system.
Golden Rice rewires a plant to produce nutrients.

Same tools.
Same precision.
Same goal: save lives.

We use bacteria to make insulin.
We use bacteria to make rice more nutritious.

One is “modern medicine.”
The other? “Playing God.”

Gene therapy gets a standing ovation.
Gene-edited crops get banned.

Why? Not because of science.

Because of fear.
Misinformation.
Identity politics.

Anti-GMO groups spread the same lies anti-vaxxers do.

Same tactics.
Same playbook.
Different audience.
And it’s killing people.

Not metaphorically - literally.

Golden Rice could prevent 40,000 child deaths in India every year.

It was blocked.
By activist lawsuits.
By courts that listened to vibes, not data.

1.4 million life years lost.
Because of ideology.

If you trust gene editing to treat cancer,
you can trust it to fight malnutrition.

This isn’t about food labels.

It’s about health.
It’s about science.
It’s about survival.

You don’t get to support gene therapy and oppose GM crops.

Not if you care about facts.
Not if you care about lives.

The science is the same.
The stakes are just as high.
And the time to stop the hypocrisy is now.

Don't just take my word for it.

Read what @dr_andrealove a biomedical scientist, who covers the facts, the fiction, and the fraud behind science and health topics has to say.
https://t.co/IIjmLFw5O6

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“We have to simply come to grips with the real universe that we really live in and if some of our myth and some of our religion is inconsistent with it, it’s time to change the myth and the religion.”

- Carl Sagan