Welcome back all. Stay safe. Mask up. This week I posted the following: Who Are You? – The 2021 iteration of WalkMyWorld started up. For those of you unaware, this is an open learning experiment where we encourage you to read, write, and connect online. Cognitive Bias & The Sunk Cost Fallacy – How do…
Freedom to PressDigitally Lit #193 – 4/13/2019 Hi all, my name is Ian O’Byrne and welcome to Digitally Literate. In this newsletter, I try to synthesize what happened this week so you can be digitally literate as well. I posted a couple of things this week: Screentime has little effect on teenagers’ wellbeing, says study…
Researchers say social media activists’ thought-policing is having a chilling effect on pursuing cures for diseases. Advocates on social media are targeting scientists who release studies that don’t fit into their views on the diseases, going so far as to wishing for the demise of their careers because of a research paper. Scientists say it…
Alex Berezow in American Council on Science & Health in response to Audra Wolfe. Some pull quotes and commentary from me below. Click here for full source with annotations. What about people who don’t have PhD’s? Are they scientists, too? In any world in which credentials matter, the answer is no. (I describe a major…
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