I freeride ski, rock climb & fell run. I like to argue with quacks and pseudo-economists.
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Simon Perry retweeted
How my friend @Simon_Perry and his colleagues built a tool for spotting medical misinformation - and discovered that 97% (!!) of alternative therapists make misleading claims on their websites.
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/a…
Here's how AI can REDUCE health misinformation (FREE TO READ!)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/a…
Simon Perry retweeted
#AI identified 23,307 false or misleading claims by practitioners registered with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council #CNHC. 97% of them make false/misleading claims.
Regulator fails to protect the public.
royalsocietypublishing.org/d…
Simon Perry retweeted
One major advantage of an 'Abundance Agenda' approach to economic policy is that it gets Democrats and 🇺🇸 away from zero-sum thinking. We are not each other’s enemies. We are all on Team 🇺🇸. The enemy is instead a series of invisible graveyards. @ATabarrok 1/6
Simon Perry retweeted
More food and nature?! Costa Rica's incredible land sparing policy.
One country has managed to increase wild nature and food production. That country is Costa Rica.
WePlaneteer Hidde (@Hiddemhigh) explains how they achieved this with a policy of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES).
Simon Perry retweeted
Today, Russians dropped a bomb on a hypermarket in Kharkiv. It's a Saturday. There was a huge number of people there.
My friend, who lives in Kharkiv, posted this photo and wrote: "At such moments, I feel that our international partners have betrayed us."
I don't understand why, when Russian planes drop bombs on peaceful cities, our international partners forbid us to use the weapons they gave us to hit military airfields in Russia.
How else can we protect people? How many more civilians have to die for the international partners to change their minds?
Simon Perry retweeted
Let’s me remind you. Surrender means Russian occupation. Russian occupation means torture, sexual violence, enforced disappearance, denial of your identity, forcible adoption of your own children, filtration camps, and mass graves.
Occupation is just another form of the war.
Simon Perry retweeted
And lest you forget, I’m an open borders guy! theatlantic.com/business/arc…
Simon Perry retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Over 1,000 scientists in 14 countries hold historic demonstrations in support of gene editing.
The scientists are urging MEPs to back New Genomic Techniques (#NGTs) ahead of a crunch vote in the EU parliament tomorrow.
Please like and share if you believe in science!
Press release:
weplanet.org/post/ngt_demons…
Simon Perry retweeted
I think @SpeakerJohnson will be happy to see this footage from Kharkiv. He helps russians with genocide.
Simon Perry retweeted
In this thread, I will explain why we are much closer to war with 🇷🇺 than most people realize and why our time window for rearmament is shorter than many believe. In my opinion, we have at best 2-3 years to re-establish deterrence vis-à-vis 🇷🇺. Here's why 👇 1/20
Simon Perry retweeted
Environmentalists have been left disappointed by this newsletter being handed out today at #COP28 by @CANIntl.
To achieve our sustainable development goals and solve the #ClimateCrisis, we can't afford organisations fighting half a century old battles against clean energy.
A 🧵
Simon Perry retweeted
Just sent out weekend update (its free--and rather long). It wrestles with whether the Russo-Ukraine war is globalizing and whether we are re-entering an era of wide spread conventional war amongst powerful states.
Simon Perry retweeted
If anyone wants to know what we got for our military support for Ukraine (besides helping to defend a fellow democracies brutally invaded by a neighbor) think about this:
➡️ For $43b in US spending (and a nearly equal amount by Euros), Ukraine destroyed half the Russian army 1/3
Simon Perry retweeted
Rishi's stupid "Plan for Drivers" actually contains some good ideas (FREE to read)
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/r…
Simon Perry retweeted
.@TimothyDSnyder was asked why Russia chose a genocidal war against #Ukraine and provides this sharp answer 👇
Simon Perry retweeted
Pioneering thinkers and organisations in the modern environmental movement have given us all hope over the decades, and achieved many wins for the planet but in recent times something seems to have gone wrong.
Much of the mainstream environmental movement has become disconnected from the science on some important issues.
Science is more than a list of impressive-sounding citations conveniently cherry-picked to buttress an argument
We need to revise some of the ideas in the green movement, and bring people together who are both pro-science and pro-environment.
Find out more:
replanet.ngo/post/an-environ…
Simon Perry retweeted
After the revival of this old thread on UK infrastructure, I realise that I never followed through on my promise: to explain what might speed it up.
Grab a spade, and come with me. 🧵
(thanks to @Sam_Dumitriu and @DavidHenigUK for reminding me)
Enjoying the recent @worksinprogress article by @Sam_Dumitriu on speeding up infrastructure. It made me look back to my time as designer of the UK’s roads programme, and our struggles to speed things up. 🧵 (1/19)
Simon Perry retweeted
“Greenpeace is stuck in the past fighting clean, carbon-free nuclear energy while the world is literally burning. We need to be using all the tools available to address climate change and nuclear is one of them. I’m tired of having to fight my fellow environmentalists about this when we should be fighting fossil fuels together.”
Simon Perry retweeted
Today I am launching the campaign #DearGreenpeace with @letsreplanet which asks @Greenpeace to drop their opposition to nuclear energy & support young people in securing their future.
Sign my petition deargreenpeace.org
Why nuclear gives me hope for a better future.🧵