HeyJaredScience and skepticism
Writings about science, educating the public and fighting pseudoscience, with occasional forays into tech and other topics
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Why Science Denialism Sets Us Back (opens the original)
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We humans have dramatically improved our lives over the past few hundred years, thanks in part to advances in science, medicine, and public health. It hasn’t all been good, but there’s no question that we live much longer, healthier lives today than we did just a couple of hundred years ago. In the year 1800, life expectancy in Europe and the Americas was just 35 years, and in Asia and Africa it was less than 30 years. Today, it’s 80 years or higher in the US and Europe. This figure shows how li
Trump's new executive order parrots a decades-old anti-vaccine fraud (opens the original)
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