A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, Jan 21, 2024 thru Sat, Jan 27, 2024.
Story of the week
Based on impressions and reactions, Melanie Trecek King s article Give Science Denial the FLICC re-posted from her Thinking is Power website won the title of Story of the week hands down. It was the best-performing post on our Facebook page and by far the most often liked and reposted toot on Mastodon!
This is a re-post from the Thinking is Power website maintained by Melanie Trecek-King where she regularly writes about many aspects of critical thinking in an effort to provide accessible and engaging critical thinking information to the general public. Please see this overview to find links to other reposts from Thinking is Power.
The natural gas industry has spent years trying to undermine scientific findings about gas stoves and health. If this sounds familiar, that’s no accident.
Never before in the history of the United States has an ex-President running for re-election been criminally charged this many times. And never before has such an awful candidate also had a real chance of becoming President again.
people yesterday? yeah, i think it s good that people talk about this. there s been so much obfuscation, the whole history of ufos, there s pretty crazy stuff going on with that. i think it s great this comes out. i think it s great for people with the nasa panel to see how science works. that s the most important part of this. for people to understand how science reaches its conclusions because, look, science is why airplanes don t fall out of the sky and why your medicines don t kill you, and so this most important question, people have been arguing about life in the universe for 2,500 years, and you know, we don t want to believe, we want kto know. this opens up for people understanding how the science works and how we ll reach that conclusion, which will probably be through telescopes not through looking at the sky. i think it s great.ican public understand how science works so we don t have more science denial. thank you very much for joining us. look forward to reading the li