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Jason Locasale
@LocasaleLab
Scientist and professor. Follow for science, health, and academic reform. DMs open • dr.jason.locasale@gmail
Raleigh, NC
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    Jason Locasale
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    Aug 7
    With this article, Monica Bertagnolli is demonstrating why the public no longer trusts the institutions she leads. This is not an argument for science. It is an immunity doctrine for the managerial class. The article is a perfect specimen of the level of thought now rewarded at
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    Jason Locasale
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    3h
    The issue is television and political theatre rewards the behavior of a lawyer, not a scientist. The people appearing on sunday-morning talk shows and evening news programs are usually lawyers trained to take a position, emphasize supporting evidence, ignore contrary evidence,
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    Walter Kirn
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    8h
    I keep seeing comments to the effect @NIHDirector_Jay needs "media training" so these ghouls can't stomp him down and he can outfox their evil verbal karate. One comment I just read said he "stutters" when attacked. Whether Dr. B does or doesn't, let's recall that Moses
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    Jason Locasale
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    3h
    I enjoyed reading this article about a black guy’s personal experience with DEI and wokeness inside his university. It was written from the perspective of a left-leaning person working in an environmental-studies humanities department at a small liberal arts college. But it