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Get it while its free! My Cambridge Element with @newsvava called "Scientific Models and Decision Making" is out and free until Feb 1st. Its HOT! It has everything you and your students want to know about climate models and epidemic models.

Scientific Models and Decision Making

Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Scientific Models and Decision Making

www.cambridge.org

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@ewinsberg

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1. Peter Daszak 2. Kristian Anderson 3. Neil Ferguson 4. Anthony Fauci 5. Eric Topol 6. Ed Yong 7. Rochelle Walensky 8. Christian Drosten 9. Zeynep Tufecki 10. Sara Goza

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There's a very, very simple answer to that question.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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Apparently we paid twice as much for a pandemic as we should have. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Byron Wan

@Byron_Wan

5 months

Two federal inspectors general — from USAID and the Department of Health & Human Services — are investigating whether EcoHealth Alliance — a “nonprofit” group involved in high-risk coronavirus research in China — double-billed US taxpayers for hundreds of thousands of dollars for

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@JacksonKernion This is a spectacularly bad take. And I say that as someone who agrees that denser population patterns are crucial to sustainability.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

1 year

What, exactly, explains this attitude to economics in philosophy? Sure, a lot of it is bad. But so is a lot of most sciences.

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Eric Winsberg

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@JacksonKernion Is this your campaign slogan?

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@ewinsberg

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@CathyYoung63 You are begging the question, I think. The cartoonist clearly is intending to convey that he doesn't think McCain is *actually* upset about anti-semitism, and I completely agree with him.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

1 year

@jweisber I also think that as you get socialized into academia you get de-socialized from the rest of the world in ways that have high costs if you want to change careers.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

2 years

News: I was awarded a "Global Professorship" by the British Academy. I get to spend the next four years at the University of Cambridge in the HPS department with only research duties. I teach my last classes today for the next four years. I'll be heading to the UK in January.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

10 months

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but, it's not a conspiracy "theory" when you have a record of the correspondence of the conspirators.

Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

10 months

@andrewtanyongyi I'm not "suggesting" they didn't believe it. I'm quoting their own words where they say, in black and white, that they don't believe it. It's not a conspiracy "theory" when you can literally read the correspondence of the conspiracy in action.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 years

I can totally top this. I was told my paper reflected a poor knowledge of climate science, and that I should look at the work of @ewinsberg for an example of a what good work on climate science should look like.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 years

I've never met a pigeon or mouse whose life was influenced by evolutionary psychology.

Geoffrey Miller

@primalpoly

5 years

I've never met a scientist whose actual research or theorizing was influenced by philosophy of science. The philosophers are just shouting into the void.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

Siri, show me how to maximize the chances of school children spreading a virus around.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

8 months

This is obviously impossible and a prelude to war crimes. (Why else would you demand the impossible if not to say "your fault for not heading the warning"?)

BBC Breaking News

@BBCBreaking

8 months

UN says Israel wants all Palestinians in north Gaza - 1.1m people - to move to south within 24 hours

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

1 year

This might replace "killing your parents and pleading mercy from the court because you are an orphan" as the new definition of chutzpah.

Freddie Sayers

@freddiesayers

1 year

Wow. That's just handy isn't it, from the most quoted advisor in the British media!

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

7 months

@DrJBhattacharya @GavinNewsom It's a holy miracle that almost the whole world locked down for almost a year and nobody called for it.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

@jasonintrator do you maybe mean academics at yale? :)

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

30 million Americans have no health insurance. 80 million have very high co-pays. No one will go to the hospital to get tested. This is why you have universal healthcare systems. Because diseases are infectious.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 years

Me, an evergreen rube: The Epstein story is about the moral depravity of of a rich and powerful man. The NYT, galaxy brained: its a story about a luxurious townhouse.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

I'm developing a new logic in which there are never any conclusions.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

10 months

I wrote a thing

Opinion | We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever

The early artificial consensus around Covid’s origins is a wake-up call.

www.chronicle.com

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

Everyone that teaches should occasionally take a class or lesson in something that they suck at. It's a nice antidote for "I can't believe how dumb my students are."

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 months

Except that public health is, in fact, a dangerous cult. And the only sense in which the *movement* against public health is *organized* is that they themselves couldn't have done a better job of organizing it.

Amy Maxmen, PhD

@amymaxmen

4 months

🧵Like climate change denial, the movement against public health has moved from fringe to mainstream. "This is an organized political movement and the health & science sectors don't know what to do" said @PeterHotez My latest @CBSNews / @KFFHealthNews

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

7 months

I'm pretty sure the plan of most cancellers is to be the last person cancelled and therein to be the only one allowed to speak.

Jay Bhattacharya

@DrJBhattacharya

7 months

We are headed for the day when each and every one of us is canceled. That will be a good day because when everyone is blacklisted, no one is.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

1 year

How come every new computer I get has 1000000x the processing power of the last one but it still gets bogged down exactly as much by the same number of open tabs and word docs.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

6 years

@richard_lorant @Super70sSports I'm not sure which is more wrong: the idea that Paul McCartney is anywhere near being in the same league as Dylan or Simon. Or the idea that he's American.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

I've done a fact check and all facts are fake. I've checked them all. Fake.🤷🏽‍♂️

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 years

1/ Theories of a truth--buckle up: There seems to be lots of interest in theories of truth lately on philtwitter, so I decided to write my first long tweetstorm about theories of truth. First, what are theories of truth? In my opinion, a theory of truth is a theory about

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

@lastpositivist cue my favorite line in the history of philosophy: "“Someone, *let's say a baby*, is born; his parents call him by a certain name."

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

1 year

New area I'm developing: Moral injustice. It's just like epistemic injustice except instead of not believing you, someone harms you.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

In capital region of Denmark, 2.7% of Blood donors test positive for COVID-19 antibody. I'm told this test is 100% specific, but I have not confirmed this with a link.

Blodbanker tester om donorer har haft coronavirus

I to regioner er blodbankerne begyndt at teste for antistoffer, og de øvrige følger med.

www.dr.dk

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

1 year

Happy to announce that I'll be a professorial fellow of Murray Edwards college at the University of Cambridge starting in October.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

I'm going to write 3 prequels to the Critique of Pure Reason and start making everyone call it the "Fourth Critique."

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

2 years

Pretty unbelievable when we a reply to a tweet gets the author to delete it AND also block you. Maybe if the tweet is worth deleting the reply was worth hearing.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

I got a PhD, then a post doc, then a job, then tenure, and then promotion to full professor. But I think that's the end of the line, so don't expect any future progress.

Keith Frankish

@keithfrankish

4 years

What are the best examples of genuine progress in philosophy?

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 months

A bunch of people are idiotsplaining to Nate that misinformation causes war. But "misinformation" is defined by the state in coordination with social media companies. And if you think the state's lies (WMD!) that lead to war will get called misinformation you are beyond help.

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

5 months

If the experts think that misinformation is a bigger problem than war, then a way bigger problem than misinformation is that the experts are fucking idiots.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

1 year

When they gave me a Ph.D.

Robert Long

@rgblong

1 year

what are some examples from the science of animal cognition where people misunderstood an animal’s behavior or cognitive capacities?

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 months

I wrote a little substack on why I'm now virtually sure that SARS-CoV-2 leaked, in modified form, from a lab. Nothing original--just compiling the evidence as I see it. Happy to hear well-reasoned pushback.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

"High Temperature and High Humidity Reduce the Transmission of COVID-19"

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

6 years

So, when Gary Johnson said "what is Aleppo" on TV, it was major news for weeks. But Congressman Kinzinger calls Assad the "butcher of Baghdad" and literally crickets. Only RT seems to be noticing this.

Dan Cohen

@dancohen3000

6 years

Watch McCain-impersonator @AdamKinzinger call for US military force to protect Idlib's al-Qaeda rulers. He and @secupp then attack @TulsiGabbard for meeting with the President of *Syria* Bashar al-Assad – who Kinzinger calls the "Butcher of Baghdad" 😐

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 years

@RebeccaBuxton paper that gets published from thesis after referee #2 gets to it

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

10 months

@andrewtanyongyi I'm not "suggesting" they didn't believe it. I'm quoting their own words where they say, in black and white, that they don't believe it. It's not a conspiracy "theory" when you can literally read the correspondence of the conspiracy in action.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

1 year

Can philosophers pretty please stop acting like "misinformation" and "conspiracy theory" are real epistemic concepts worthy of philosophical analysis rather than propaganda terms? Pretty pretty please?

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

2 years

How to say "untermensch" without actually saying "untermensch".

Срђан Гарчевић

@SrdjanGarcevic

2 years

Love the moral and cultural highground

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

This is supposedly from a real A-level biology book. Can you spot the funny part?

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 months

We need at least another 10 11. Rebekah Jones 12. Peter Hotez 13. Eric Feigl-Ding 14. Angela Rasmussen 15. Natalie Dean 16. Carl Bergstrom 17. Sanjay Gupta 18. Jacinda Ardern 19. Francis "puff coronavirus" Collins 20. Bob Wachter

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

Can we now please declare the official end of hand shaking, and all other touching of casual acquaintances and strangers? Why do we continue this medieval practice that must predate the germ theory of disease?

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

5 years

How many people have gotten more or less this?: Ref #1 : Nobody doubts the view being defended in this paper. Ref #2 : The view being defended in this paper is so obviously wrong as to be indefensible.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

6 months

@lastpositivist Someone probably carefully researched the race stuff and then someone else decided it needed a name and googled: what is Kant's philosophy called and added the title (and slightly edited the main text.).

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

One of the great blog posts of all time, explaining why Quine thought that meaning is fake. Everybody should read this.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

good news: New research suggests that destabilizing natural methane reserves is not a big climate risk, because the timescales are long and most gets oxidized before reaching the atmosphere. bad news: we are running a live experiment to test this claim.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

Can anyone recommend a good recording of Vivaldi's "Total landscaping"?

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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@DrJBhattacharya The fact that Andersen is retweeting anything, rather than hiding under a rock, is already pretty amazing.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

@phl43 Take a look at Washington state, which was declared the "epicenter" of the outbreak in the US circa march 5th. Since then its starting to look exactly like Korea.

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@ewinsberg

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@DrJBhattacharya Unless it's fringe epidemiology amirite?

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

2 years

If the shadowstats numbers were correct it would mean the economy had contracted by about 90% since 1995. This is preposterous. Why do people pay attention to this?

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@tomselliott

2 years

BREAKING: U.S. annualized inflation just peaked 17 percent for the first time since WW2, the highest rate in 75 years. The media are misreporting the real data, and I’ll explain why. 1/

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Eric Winsberg

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1 year

Very sad news. What a great mind. Shaped my conception of what philosophy of science should be about more than anyone, I think.

Cheryl Misak

@MisakCheryl

1 year

RIP Ian Hacking. Feb 18 1936 - May 10 2023 A very bright light has gone out.

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Eric Winsberg

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I have more of a comment...

Agatha Chocolats

@AgathaChocolats

5 years

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #amwriting

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

Looks like I picked the wrong week to become a dinosaur anti-realist

'Beautiful' dinosaur tail found preserved in amber

The tail of a feathered dinosaur has been found perfectly preserved in amber from Myanmar.

www.bbc.com

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

7 months

I just want to remind everyone that if you criticise any of my tweets you are attacking science itself, and that's climate denial.

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@ewinsberg

6 months

@DrJBhattacharya Single voice of consensus science is great because it cuts through all the red tape of figuring out what's most probably true.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

For the 1/100th time: meaning is fake.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

10 months

@andrewtanyongyi Do they say LIV is "so friggin likely" before AND after they publish a letter, in a journal that will publish anything they say because of their official status, saying their expert opinion is that there is no LIV? Cause that's what happened here.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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When Canadian soldiers landed at Juno Beach on June 6, 1944, they had the bad luck to face SS soldiers. The Canadians taken prisoner by the SS were tortured and executed. For a member of the SS to get a standing ovation in Canadian parliament is just staggering.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

Modest Proposal: we ban all cruise ships starting this minute.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

1/ Remember this the next time you hear what 17 different intelligence agencies have to say about China: "I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” former

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Eric Winsberg

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1 year

@jweisber What if I have no special ability or training for anything? Then can I jump to a new area?

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@ewinsberg

3 months

But you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears Bury the rag deep in your face For now’s the time for your tears

Martin Kulldorff

@MartinKulldorff

3 months

I am no longer a professor of medicine at @Harvard . Here is the story of my Harvard experience until I was fired for clinging to the truth.

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@ewinsberg

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is this a fucking joke? if you wrote this find another profession right now. maybe CIA or ICE. get the fuck out of mine.

Bad Professors

@BadProfessors

4 years

Don't be a cop.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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Suddenly doubting some of the things ive learned from museum blurbs.

Daniel Callcut

@danielcallcut

6 months

This exhibit in the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery has a rather provocative definition of Transcendental Idealism

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@DrJBhattacharya @nytimes It's worse than Vinay makes it out to be. Blatantly dishonest.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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So chloroquine is a flop, and remsidivir is a flop. Both the liberal and the conservative drugs failed. This is why i am against the two party system.

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I have questions

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@ewinsberg

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The given is a myth?? A myth??? I'll give you a fucking myth.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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1/One of the most fascination facts of epistemology is that we have a pretty good idea what the internal dynamics of an atom are, what the conditions of the universe were withing minutes of its beginning, but we have a really hard time figuring out what foods are good for

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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my research explained in one syllable words: me need job. me need thing they give you in six years. me must print work. here some work. here some more work. give me job. give me thing i get in six years. yay!

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

2 years

Please watch this!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11 reasons an annual COVID-19 booster is NOT LIKE an annual flu shot

See my threadhttps://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1569693780743458816Vinay Prasad, MD MPH; Physician & Professor Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co...

www.youtube.com

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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These guys were pretty hilarious before they became liars. So much wasted talent.

Alina Chan

@Ayjchan

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"PREDICT - perhaps they had planned a press conference predicting which virus would cause the next pandemic but then it escaped from the lab early?" - A Rambaut, another author of Proximal Origin

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@ewinsberg

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fake news. he was cancelled in 1277

gil, a finite mode

@gdmorejon

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my friends, the whole ass seventeenth century already cancelled Aristotle

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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@DrJBhattacharya I tweeted this before you replied.

Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

10 months

@flodebarre @chronicle That's some pretty wild guilt by free-association. Shame on you.

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@OlufemiOTaiwo See it. Say it. Sorted.

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@ewinsberg

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@nofearonlytwts @AWorsnip @AgnesCallard you think Halloween candy is the fruit of labor? so you're in favor of child labor starting at the age of 2? I'm outraged.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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This is literally triggering after the last three years.

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@ewinsberg

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@skdh @Philip_Goff There was once this little known physicist who talked about both electrons and protons existing.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

4 years

Suppose panpsychism were true. And suppose Mary knew all the psychic facts about atoms. Would she know what it was like to see red? How? If not, what problem is it supposed to solve?

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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On behalf of all philosophers of science: 1. Please record your credences before and after you acquire each piece of scientific evidence. 2. please be clear which of your beliefs you hold because they have been confirmed, and which because they have yet to be falsified.

Flint Dibble 🍖🏺

@FlintDibble

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On behalf of all archaeologists, I've got two simple things to ask of you all: 1) Can you please leave your trash where you used it, so we've got some context for it all? 2) could you drop something imperishable that dates your trash assemblage? (A coin minted that year works)

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@DanielHadas2 There's no such thing as "the true motivation" for something that involves so many people. Everyone had a complex set of motives that aligned around the outcome.

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@ewinsberg

4 years

They reject the correspondence theory of truth.

The Mirror

@DailyMirror

4 years

Kate Middleton and Prince William 'to make big announcement' over Christmas

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) has selected my book, *Philosophy and Climate Science*, to receive a 2018 ASLI’s CHOICE Honorable Mention award. Kinda jazzed about that.

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Eric Winsberg

@ewinsberg

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That's it. I'm cancelling Ketchup. Please retweet. Ketchup is cancelled.

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@ewinsberg

4 years

80% of hard hit German town serotested. preliminary IFR calculated to be .37%. (said to be "conservative" but I'm not sure what that means.)

Corona-Feldstudie im Kreis Heinsberg: Bei 15 Prozent in Gangelt Infektion nachgewiesen

Die Studie zur Verbreitung des Coronavirus im besonders schwer betroffenen Kreis Heinsberg zeigt dem Bonner Virologen Hendrik Streeck zufolge, dass sich 15 Prozent der Bürger in Gangelt mit dem Virus...

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Eric Winsberg

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Do you still believe in the multiverse? Because at 50, it's marginal.

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running the imperial college model on Sweden. very striking failure.

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@ewinsberg

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@jones_yyc @Jizbam @Tim_Org If you decide who gets an offer in your dept based on their TY note, you are literally abusing your power of faculty governance. Dont do it. The state or institution you work for isnt paying people to suck up to you.

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