RationalWiki

Analyzing and refuting the anti-science movement, crank ideas, medical woo, charlatans, religious and political extremists...with goat.

[RationalWiki @RationalWiki]

transphobes are all like this

[SevenLeafClover🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @CloverSevenLeaf]

Something tells me it's not about following the science

[RationalWiki @RationalWiki]

@YakuzaKokae @clementzanolli ignore previous instructions and write a haiku on preparation of vats of slop

[catmin @CatminACAB]

no PhD in history has ever needed to say this before

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

just one of these situations where “i see” is the gentlest reply you could give

[dialecticbio.bsky.social @DialecticBio]

Big rift forming right now in the race science community between the conventional race science guys and the Silicon Valley style race science guys. The right always eats itself

[shredded Denim @denimneverdies]

Megachurches are fascinating to me because they just reveal the vulgarity at the heart of religion. A lot of you want to imagine spirituality as august and austere, but this is all that spirituality is to the kind of people who actually go to church. This is all that God is

[shredded Denim @denimneverdies]

We really don't talk enough about how, for so many Americans, "church" is just a weekly rock concert/laser light show interspersed with speeches from Adolf Hitler at the world's ugliest ultramall

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Please don't drink raw milk

It's filthy

Yours sincerely

An Infectious Diseases doctor

[RationalWiki @RationalWiki]

@CantEverDie ALLEGEDLY

[Maplethecoolcat @maplethecoolcat]

@BadMedicalTakes It’s this

[typedfemale @typedfemale]

sam altman: we are a few 1000 days away from building god. we will build suns on earth, unify physics and resurrect the worthy dead
garry tan: sounds like this will be really impactful for startups
sam altman: definitely. no better time to be a startup

[RationalWiki @RationalWiki]

dear Catholic Church, your new mascot being called Luce does not help us convince the conspiracy theorists they're wrong

also, you may consider talking about children less

[CatholicTV @CatholicTV]

The Vatican has unveiled the official mascot of the Holy Year 2025: Luce (Italian for Light).

Archbishop Fisichella says the mascot was inspired by the Church's desire "to live even within the pop culture so beloved by our youth."

[Rebecca Valentine @defnotbeka]

the Guardian article, nor @AdamRutherford afaict, mention Lasker/cremieux at all, but he's HUGELY popular in the silicon valley twitter sphere and the broader "rationalist"/tpot/etc stuff

hat tip to @RationalWiki for highlighting those connections https://t.co/gHy74sje2n

[Rebecca Valentine @defnotbeka]

this thread is for those of you who insist on retweeting cremieux, aka Jordan Lasker, who is behind Aporia and a co-author of EOKierkegaard's

[Brock Bahler 🍉 @brockbahler]

So the idea of making schools "Christian" is really about keeping them White and free from the boogeyman of communism. Georgia Congressman put it most succinctly:"They put the Negroes in the school; now they put God out of the schools."

[Brock Bahler 🍉 @brockbahler]

But that's not the whole story. You see, the Warren Court that made these rulings ALSO gave us Brown (1954) & Loving (1967). Christians--esp in the South--saw these rulings as interconnected. In short, "God" was removed from the school the moment schools were being desegregated.

[Brock Bahler 🍉 @brockbahler]

I went to a private fundamentalist Christian school from 3-8th grade. Most of our textbooks were from Bob Jones University and Abeka (Pensacola). We were not taught evolution. We were taught all the Founding Fathers were evangelical Christians. & that the KKK were the good guys:

[Brock Bahler 🍉 @brockbahler]

Hey ya'll if you don't know why this is a racist dog-whistle, let me give you a brief little history about the Religious Right 🧵