Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

#Science is littered with #zombie studies. Here’s how to stop their spread. Just by citing a #zombiepublication, new #research becomes #infected: A single unreliable #citation can threaten the reliability of the research that cites it, and that infection can cascade, spreading across hundreds of papers. A 2019 paper on #childhoodcancer, for example, cites 51 different #RetractedPapers making its research likely impossible to salvage. https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4326865-science-is-littered-with-zombie-studies-heres-how-to-stop-their-spread/ #KM #education #medicine

@taylorlorenz Quote posts are coming! Long overdue, but better late than ever!

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for the 4th straight fucking year public health has insisted they are well prepared for a surge in hospitalizations and everyone should continue as if an ever evolving, immune depleting virus was no big deal

McMaster Children's Hospital treating kids in hallways as they can't handle the load, wait times at ERs rising sharply all over Canada

Main question: why the hell prepare to fail every time, vs prevent the surge from happening?

We have the tools, use them - mask up

#Covid #Covid19

@Alarod_123
There are no perfect people.
There can be no perfect
political leader.
Look for those who clearly
respect your most important
values and have track records
for getting good things done.
Who do you see?

For some reason, this cracked me up.
But then I think pineapple absolutely belongs on pizza! ;)
What do you think?
#Pizza #PineappleOnPizza

STORM OF THE CENTURY!

In the temporarily occupied Crimea, the wind speed now reaches 29m per second and waves are about 9 meters high (a 10-11 point storm on a 12 point scale)

It is reported that this is the strongest storm in the Black Sea in the last 100 years!
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange

NSW premier Chris Minns has tested positive for COVID.

#COVID19nsw @ChrisMinnsMP #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2023/nov/27/australia-politics-live-immigration-detention-housing-cost-of-living-energy-emissions-education?filterKeyEvents=false#maincontent

The U.S. Navy has taken back control of the Israel-affiliated tanker “Central Park Vessel" after it was hijacked by Yemeni Houthi rebels earlier today.

The USS Mason managed to catch up with it before it reached a Yemeni port.
#AureFreePress #News #Israel #gaza #Hamas

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It seems a bit absurd to hear people say “Biden’s not perfect so vote for the guy who fomented the Capitol riot instead!” How is voting for someone much worse going to make anything better? Are some people trying to suggest that fascism is somehow a viable option to Biden? A fascist police state is not any kind of viable option at all. And Trump is openly saying now that this is what he wants.

🇳🇿New Zealand COVID weekly update: 20 November to 26 November

🔹New cases: 6,814 (-1,067)
🔹Reinfections: 3,595 (52.76%)
🔹Deaths: 27 (+7)
🔹Hospital: 327 (-22)
🔹ICU: 8 (+6)

🔸52.76% were reinfections

🔹COVID-attributed deaths: 27

Sadly, 41 deaths being reported today.

1 was less than 10 years old
1 was in their 40s
1 was in their 50s
3 were in their 60s
8 were in their 70s
20 were in their 80s
7 were aged over 90

24 were women and 17 were men

#COVID19NZ @auscovid19

Source: https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/our-health-system/data-and-statistics/covid-19-data/covid-19-current-cases/

Holy cow the #DoctorWho special is fantastic! Davies really knows how to write the Doctor. So much good stuff in this thing. Really really encouraging for the franchise. Woot!

Elon Musk's Jet tracker website shows the Biggest Loser traveling to Tel Aviv, Israel tonight.
Just what Jews and Palestinians need at just this moment.
NOT!

If you think it was ever about "saving the children" or "parent's rights", I've got a bridge to sell you.

"A Pennsylvania school board that banned books, Pride flags and transgender athletes slipped a last-minute item into their final meeting before leaving office, hastily awarding a $700,000 exit package to the superintendent who supported their agenda."

#Pennsylvania #MomsForLiberty #BookBanning #Corruption #PublicEducation
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Democrats who swept Moms For Liberty off school board fight superintendent’s $700,000 exit deal
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/23/democrats-who-swept-moms-for-liberty-off-school-board-fight-superintendents-700-000-exit-deal-00128561

@EyalL You said this so much better than I ever have. And I think the world has still not grasped that we really mean Hamas will be destroyed. They cannot believe we won’t bend the knee again and live with terrorists among us.

Born in 1917, Egyptian physicist Sameera Moussa studied radioactive isotopes used to create medical images. Her work “laid the groundwork for a revolution in the affordability & safety of nuclear medicine.”

Concerned about the potential use of nuclear weapons during WWII, Moussa organized the Atomic Energy for Peace conference.

She was likely assassinated at age 35 in a case that remains unsolved. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/the-strange-tragic-story-of-egypts-foremost-female-nuclear-scientist/ #science #history

Once again the blatant racism from the Nazi GOP is wide ranging, but then we have the usual suspect screaming about not voting for President Biden not having an actually reason just more Every four years bullshit from people that loves chaos.

@thepoliticalcat @Rasta lol I’m a Christian and I have never been able to find anything even remotely Christian about Christmas. It was a ploy to adopt somebody else’s celebration to get people into the church to fill the coffers. I’m a fan of Christ… Christianity ehh not so much.

VERMONT HATE CRIME!

Burlington, VT police investigating a shooting that sent three Palestinian men to the hospital with gunshot wounds Saturday evening.

"The three young male victims, each of whom is 20 years old, remain under medical care," police said in a statement released Sunday afternoon. "Two are stable, while one has sustained much more serious injuries."

two of the men were wearing keffiyehs, a scarf worn in many Middle Eastern cultures.
#AureFreePress

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/crime/2023/11/26/north-prospect-street-burlington-vt-shooting/71710595007/