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An interesting part is how often people like Shirley MacLaine—not the first example—fall for stuff like this.

A long history of this: comfortable, well-meaning but clueless Westerners falling for lies brought about by authoritarianism because they feel sympathetic to the people. https://t.co/Ogun1bmZKy

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) April 15, 2022

So many examples from the Soviet era and from China. People react, understandably, to demonization of a people—a racist blaming of the whole population.

The opposite of that, unfortunately, can be gullibility, not helpful to those living under authoritarianism: many are victims.

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) April 15, 2022

Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivals

"ESG ratings have little to no relation to carbon intensity, even when considering only the environmental pillar of these ratings"

Manvir Singh on Twitter

"Advocates of Paleo-inspired carnivore diets (e.g., @PaulSaladinoMD @SBakerMD) often point to the Inuit as having a traditionally carnivorous diet. Yet there are at least five problems with using the Inuit as the quintessential ancestral carnivores". Eaten half-digested contents from the stomachs of animals is one of those kind of foods that doesn't sound very appetising.

The true trigger of shame: social devaluation is sufficient, wrongdoing is unnecessary

"Exclusion increased shame. Under-contribution did not. In fact, even the highest contributors tended to feel shame when excluded. These findings strongly suggest that the true trigger of shame is the prospect or actuality of being devalued by others."

This honestly isn't a bad heuristic in a lot of highly politicized areas:

A sign that you might want to trust a source:

If they say, "We're not sure." Or, "The evidence suggests X. But the quality of that evidence isn't too strong, so better research is needed."

A sign that you should be wary of a source:

If they say, "The science is settled."

Every now and then I see an updated version of this and it always amuses me. Not sure if I've posted one of these here before though:

Nice "new" visualization of solar growth versus predictions ;-) ht @baumanns pic.twitter.com/mtJuMbkvK9

— AukeHoekstra (@AukeHoekstra) September 30, 2023

EDIT: Amusingly it seems you actually have to click through to see the image to properly view it. Otherwise the bottom just disappears.