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SciCommic
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Science communication tramp. I’ve been an informal science educator and vaccine advocate long enough to know that anti-science is not partisan. People show us who they are by who they choose to represent them.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · Dec 7
#scicomm

A favorite tactic to discredit #science is to try and drag it down as just another “belief” system.

So, I would take a minute during my demos to explain to my audiences the difference between gathering, evaluating and presenting evidence and “belief”, telling them how:
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 11h
Madison Square Garden, 1938.
It’s only because we went to war against Germany that they crawled under their rocks.

Ever since, they’ve praised and cited Americans who gave their lives to protect us from this, all while privately waiting and hoping for someone like Trump to bring it about.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 11h
ICE agents are those who, when they first learned about the Holocaust, felt envious of the guards at Dachau and Auschwitz.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 12h
Those of us from Virginia, where Jamestown was established 13 years before the Mayflower ever set sail, feel the same way about the persistent myth that our country was created by “pilgrims seeking religious freedom.”

Because they don’t wanna admit it was actually started as a commercial enterprise
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 12h
That one was definitely on the table in my 4th grade classroom.
Read it over, quite a few times.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 12h
Moderate. Kinda slacked off this year, but we still frequently walk the trails on Cranberry Lake.

I’ve been wanting to explore the lower trails from the Burrows Bay overlook, and around Gooseneck Rock(?) by Deception Pass. My wife is not as confident about getting around on those.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 12h
Watching (older) episodes of Rick Steves in Amsterdam and in Copenhagen, and feeling some serious envy.

Of course, now, whenever he mentions how a city or country was once the pinnacle of western civilization, I think how we’re now part of that list.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 14h
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 14h
And this is why my family continues to support NPR.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 14h
Still remember the number for my childhood home.
a group of muppets are sitting at a table with cups and saucers .
ALT: a group of muppets are sitting at a table with cups and saucers .
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 15h
Quite accurate.
The breezes off the water are starting to get chilly, when we walk in the evenings, and it gets my wife sneezing and her eyes tearing up.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 15h
Ya wanna go OG, you can call it Luna or Selene.

But yeah, ever since Galileo saw those 4 little dots near Jupiter, it’s been inaccurate to even say “*the* moon.”

Had to be careful to say “our Moon” or “Earth’s Moon” and not call the others “planets” during my demos.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 15h
Gesundheit!
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 17h
Breezy, but otherwise it’s a really nice morning.
The bits and bobs of the sailboat riggings were making their grand cacophony, like an orchestra of muted wind chimes.

Glad you got some forest bathing time in.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
98% of the antiscience idjits vilifying mRNA vaccines wouldn’t even get the joke of this T-shirt.

The 2% who get it, but still fearmonger against mRNA -and vaccines in general- are profiting from the willful dumbassery of that 98%.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
a man wearing glasses and a bow tie says pretty much everyday ..
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a bow tie says pretty much everyday ..
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
The thugs hiding behind their badges know that they’re violating the rights of American citizens.

What they’re doing is far beyond “chust followink orders.” They are gleefully indulging their violent tendencies.

But they’re confident that they will never face any consequences for it.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
Y’know.
It kinda surprising that Baba Yaga’s was never used for a fried chicken restaurant chain.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
We had Washington state troopers quitting their jobs over requirements to mitigate a pandemic, to protect people.

One of the definitions of their job.

This is why I have no confidence in state police or national guard, in any state, if they are called on to protect citizens from Trump’s Gestapo.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
Yeah.
After *15 years* and countless lives destroyed.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
Kid’s got a future in politics.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
With Culp, we saw how lax are qualifications not just for chief of police for these dark Red postage stamp sized towns, but for governor as well.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 20h
Republicans have, for decades, acted in opposition to what up to 70% of Americans have stated they want: affordable access to healthcare, reasonable gun restrictions, ect.

Yet, their indoctrinated voters continue to elect them for no other reason than they’re not Democrats.
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 21h
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 22h
No matter how many times you move, they follow you…
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 22h
Thank you for this.
People need to learn more names than Marie Curie.

Mayer looks like she’s ready to take the stage in a production of Die Fledermaus (yet another source that Kane and Finger “borrowed” from for their Batman character)
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