Patrick Fullick
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unrecovered academic https://fullick.net ~ writer ~ habitually techy ~ InSECT Project team member https://insect-project.org - working to restore trust in science, bolster democracy and counter the erosion of truth 🧪 ✊
"“The truth is never, never with those who hold power. The truth is with everyone else.”
January 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
"“The truth is never, never with those who hold power. The truth is with everyone else.”
Calling all teachers in middle/high schools and colleges!
Join us at the InSECT Project to fight against attacks on science which threaten the health of our planet and people around the world. 🧪 #EduSky
Visit insect-project.org to find out about the free materials we're producing!
Join us at the InSECT Project to fight against attacks on science which threaten the health of our planet and people around the world. 🧪 #EduSky
Visit insect-project.org to find out about the free materials we're producing!
January 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Calling all teachers in middle/high schools and colleges!
Join us at the InSECT Project to fight against attacks on science which threaten the health of our planet and people around the world. 🧪 #EduSky
Visit insect-project.org to find out about the free materials we're producing!
Join us at the InSECT Project to fight against attacks on science which threaten the health of our planet and people around the world. 🧪 #EduSky
Visit insect-project.org to find out about the free materials we're producing!
One of my favourite science cartoons (and of course, it's by the wonderful Sidney Harris). 🧪
December 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
One of my favourite science cartoons (and of course, it's by the wonderful Sidney Harris). 🧪
Here is RFK Jr on Tucker Carlson's show in mid-2025 - an exact quote of what he said at about 14 minutes in. Crazy.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Here is RFK Jr on Tucker Carlson's show in mid-2025 - an exact quote of what he said at about 14 minutes in. Crazy.
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The fractal model of society - an illustration from one of The InSECT Project's training resources for teachers - helping young people understand how science is done and why trust in science is so important in defending democracy. 🧪
Check it out here - insect-project.org/more
Check it out here - insect-project.org/more
December 28, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The fractal model of society - an illustration from one of The InSECT Project's training resources for teachers - helping young people understand how science is done and why trust in science is so important in defending democracy. 🧪
Check it out here - insect-project.org/more
Check it out here - insect-project.org/more
We are with you on championing truth in science!
Authoritarian leaders always devalue truth so they can re-define it as whatever they want – this allows them to re-define ‘the will of the people’ to be whatever they want.
Authoritarian leaders always devalue truth so they can re-define it as whatever they want – this allows them to re-define ‘the will of the people’ to be whatever they want.
December 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We are with you on championing truth in science!
Authoritarian leaders always devalue truth so they can re-define it as whatever they want – this allows them to re-define ‘the will of the people’ to be whatever they want.
Authoritarian leaders always devalue truth so they can re-define it as whatever they want – this allows them to re-define ‘the will of the people’ to be whatever they want.
"The tactic of dictators ... is to erode truth because it constrains their interpretations of the national will; dictators want to destroy truth so they can be in a position to re-define it as whatever they want and thus redefine ‘the will of the people’ as whatever they want."
InSECT Project credo.
InSECT Project credo.
December 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"The tactic of dictators ... is to erode truth because it constrains their interpretations of the national will; dictators want to destroy truth so they can be in a position to re-define it as whatever they want and thus redefine ‘the will of the people’ as whatever they want."
InSECT Project credo.
InSECT Project credo.
Just finished "An Anthropologist on Mars", a wonderful book by Oliver Sacks. Bought in a charity bookshop a couple of years ago, halfway through I found the original purchase receipt from a Berlin bookshop.
Pre-loved books can contain such lovely surprises. 😍
Pre-loved books can contain such lovely surprises. 😍
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Just finished "An Anthropologist on Mars", a wonderful book by Oliver Sacks. Bought in a charity bookshop a couple of years ago, halfway through I found the original purchase receipt from a Berlin bookshop.
Pre-loved books can contain such lovely surprises. 😍
Pre-loved books can contain such lovely surprises. 😍
We've just published our third set of resources for schools in our series to help teachers to explain to students how scientists find the truth about the observable world. 🧪
"The experimenter’s regress – gravitational waves" is available at insect-project.org now! #EduSky
"The experimenter’s regress – gravitational waves" is available at insect-project.org now! #EduSky
December 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We've just published our third set of resources for schools in our series to help teachers to explain to students how scientists find the truth about the observable world. 🧪
"The experimenter’s regress – gravitational waves" is available at insect-project.org now! #EduSky
"The experimenter’s regress – gravitational waves" is available at insect-project.org now! #EduSky
From the wonderful David Malki - link in comment below.
This dates from 2014 and yet is SO topical.
This dates from 2014 and yet is SO topical.
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
From the wonderful David Malki - link in comment below.
This dates from 2014 and yet is SO topical.
This dates from 2014 and yet is SO topical.
Thanks - an interesting read (I love this kind of stuff!) and no paywall either. Adding the figure from the article here.
December 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Thanks - an interesting read (I love this kind of stuff!) and no paywall either. Adding the figure from the article here.
Many great artworks are - at their most sublime - susceptible to multiple interpretations which tell us something about ourselves.
🧪 Science subscribes to the opposite - to tell the truth about the observable world which is unambiguous and which is susceptible to only one interpretation.
🧪 Science subscribes to the opposite - to tell the truth about the observable world which is unambiguous and which is susceptible to only one interpretation.
December 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Many great artworks are - at their most sublime - susceptible to multiple interpretations which tell us something about ourselves.
🧪 Science subscribes to the opposite - to tell the truth about the observable world which is unambiguous and which is susceptible to only one interpretation.
🧪 Science subscribes to the opposite - to tell the truth about the observable world which is unambiguous and which is susceptible to only one interpretation.
The speed of frontier science is nearly always slower than the speed of politics. But the truth about the observable world cannot be bent to political or commercial will.
Galileo knew this over 400 years ago.
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Galileo knew this over 400 years ago.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The speed of frontier science is nearly always slower than the speed of politics. But the truth about the observable world cannot be bent to political or commercial will.
Galileo knew this over 400 years ago.
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Galileo knew this over 400 years ago.
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Høeg says US is "international outlier" in number of vaccines it recommends for children.
Not supported by data from UK government.
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Not supported by data from UK government.
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Høeg says US is "international outlier" in number of vaccines it recommends for children.
Not supported by data from UK government.
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Not supported by data from UK government.
Source: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Do you teach students aged 12+?
Worried about helping them to take an evidence-based approach to what they hear and see about issues like #vaccines and #climate?
Check out insect-project.org - we're developing resources to help! Come and join us! #EduSky 🧪
Worried about helping them to take an evidence-based approach to what they hear and see about issues like #vaccines and #climate?
Check out insect-project.org - we're developing resources to help! Come and join us! #EduSky 🧪
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Do you teach students aged 12+?
Worried about helping them to take an evidence-based approach to what they hear and see about issues like #vaccines and #climate?
Check out insect-project.org - we're developing resources to help! Come and join us! #EduSky 🧪
Worried about helping them to take an evidence-based approach to what they hear and see about issues like #vaccines and #climate?
Check out insect-project.org - we're developing resources to help! Come and join us! #EduSky 🧪
Global temperatures and sea-levels are rising, extreme weather is increasing globally.
And vaccines are proven to be highly effective in preventing fatal and life-changing diseases.
Government policy must always be based on following the 🧪. Even though speed of science is often < speed of politics.
And vaccines are proven to be highly effective in preventing fatal and life-changing diseases.
Government policy must always be based on following the 🧪. Even though speed of science is often < speed of politics.
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Global temperatures and sea-levels are rising, extreme weather is increasing globally.
And vaccines are proven to be highly effective in preventing fatal and life-changing diseases.
Government policy must always be based on following the 🧪. Even though speed of science is often < speed of politics.
And vaccines are proven to be highly effective in preventing fatal and life-changing diseases.
Government policy must always be based on following the 🧪. Even though speed of science is often < speed of politics.
The InSECT Project is developing a new teaching program to bolster democracy and counter the erosion of truth, with science being considered as a form of knowledge alongside arts and humanities knowledge.
Read our credo here: insect-project.org
Read our credo here: insect-project.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
The InSECT Project is developing a new teaching program to bolster democracy and counter the erosion of truth, with science being considered as a form of knowledge alongside arts and humanities knowledge.
Read our credo here: insect-project.org
Read our credo here: insect-project.org
Don't give them ideas - US agriculture policy will be next! Vernalization, anyone?
("Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages." [Wikipedia])
("Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages." [Wikipedia])
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Don't give them ideas - US agriculture policy will be next! Vernalization, anyone?
("Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages." [Wikipedia])
("Lysenko played an active role in the famines that killed millions of Soviet people and his practices prolonged and exacerbated the food shortages." [Wikipedia])
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (ie the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (ie the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (ie the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (ie the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
🧪 The tactic of dictators past and present is to erode truth because it constrains their interpretations of the national will; dictators seek to destroy truth in order to re-define it as whatever they want and so redefine ‘the will of the people’ as whatever they want.
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🧪 The tactic of dictators past and present is to erode truth because it constrains their interpretations of the national will; dictators seek to destroy truth in order to re-define it as whatever they want and so redefine ‘the will of the people’ as whatever they want.
Catching up with the news from the US that's happened overnight here in the UK. More on this later. But just to kick things off, I've been back here for 48 hours. The first cat pictures have just found their way into my feed. The inevitability of the internet!
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Catching up with the news from the US that's happened overnight here in the UK. More on this later. But just to kick things off, I've been back here for 48 hours. The first cat pictures have just found their way into my feed. The inevitability of the internet!
*Atlas supports the world which scientists aspire to describe. His elephant stands on a turtle and then it’s turtles all the way down. The bottom turtle is truth and just above it is science. Science is imperfect but more obsessed with the truth about the observable world than any other institution.
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
*Atlas supports the world which scientists aspire to describe. His elephant stands on a turtle and then it’s turtles all the way down. The bottom turtle is truth and just above it is science. Science is imperfect but more obsessed with the truth about the observable world than any other institution.
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Lovely walk through the campus yesterday evening after many years away - hats off to the estates team responsible for landscaping and maintenance!
Lovely walk through the campus yesterday evening after many years away - hats off to the estates team responsible for landscaping and maintenance!
May 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Lovely walk through the campus yesterday evening after many years away - hats off to the estates team responsible for landscaping and maintenance!
Lovely walk through the campus yesterday evening after many years away - hats off to the estates team responsible for landscaping and maintenance!