Stephan Lewandowsky
lewan.bsky.social
Stephan Lewandowsky
@lewan.bsky.social
Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Bristol. Homepage: https://www.lewan.uk
How old is it? Weird thing is that I have never seen a tube carriage like that.
November 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
What next? Several lawsuits are already underway against RFK Jr, and some medical professional bodies have started speaking out against his attempts to elevate a scientific hoax (which is what the autism scare is based on) above actual science. We shall see... to be continued.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Pretty much all of this is plain wrong. Very wrong. Not much nuance here if you know the literature at all.

If you want the details, I went through some of them recently in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Public health suffers when those in power dismiss knowledge
“Knowledge is power”—or at least it was when Sir Francis Bacon coined this phrase in the 16th century. In today’s world, we frequently encounter a different variant of this philosophy, perhaps best described as “power dismisses knowledge.” We need look ...
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Here it is, the topsy-turvy upside-down world of what used to be a reliable scientific institution: www.cdc.gov/vaccine-...

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November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Now it is 2025. And as of a few days ago, the CDC website has seemingly been taken over by Twitter cranks because scientific information has been replaced by outright disinformation -- that is, information that has been verifiably debunked over and over again. Without much room for ambiguity.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The paper started out with "Imagine a world in which it is not medical knowledge but a free-for-all opinion market on Twitter that determines whether a newly emergent strain of avian flu is really contagious to humans. This dystopian future is still just that—a possible future."

That was 2017

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November 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM

Participants in this first summit will help shape the strategic agenda for the online workshops and the Barcelona event—deciding together which themes, tools, and collaborations can most effectively strengthen academic resilience and collective action.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM