My youngest daughter got this in an Xmas card today.
— Dr Mike Sutton (@Criminotweet) December 13, 2020
Christmas 2020 is one to remember.
Unlike Bonkers Boris, that lunatic Trump and their idiot admirers , Santa has ALWAYS known the importance of masks #MasksSupermyth in an exhaled droplet infected virus pandemic pic.twitter.com/U2EFgkjc9y
Supermyths are myths about myths that are created and compounded by experts, spread by pseudo-skeptics and destroyed by evidence. Braced myths are a sub-type of supermyth, created by orthodox expert authorities that are so powerful they are believed to be true by respected scholars who unwittingly promote them as examples of the need to be healthily sceptical of counterknowledge and then, with unintended irony, use them as argument winners to refute other fallacious knowledge.
The Dysology Hypothesis
Letting scholars get away with publishing fallacies and myths signals to others the existence of topics where guardians of good scholarship might be less capable than elsewhere. Such dysology then serves as an allurement to poor scholars to disseminate existing myths and fallacies and to create and publish their own in these topic areas, which leads to a downward spiral of diminishing veracity on particular topics.
Sunday, 13 December 2020
Christmas 2020 and the COVID19 pandemic
Get your mask on in a COVID19 pandemic