Notices by Rebecca Watson (rebeccawatson@mstdn.social), page 9

The main reason is that they only considered a few studies on masks vs COVID, which DID show they helped. They combined those with studies on masks vs influenza in NON EPIDEMIC times. 2/4 https://skepchick.org/2023/02/revisiting-the-science-do-masks-stop-covid-19/

Essentially it's like looking at the benefits of seat belts: here are two studies on seat belts helping on the freeway combined with 10 studies on seat belts helping in Safeway parking lots. Result: no benefit. 3/4 https://skepchick.org/2023/02/revisiting-the-science-do-masks-stop-covid-19/

in high school I joined the board of my local Habitat for Humanity. It was incredible, it changed my life, and I learned that Jimmy Carter was everything many Christians wanted to be but lacked the courage and intelligence to be.

Lots of people were upset by a recent NY Times article that said alcohol isn't healthy. I'm sorry to report that this is not news: the reason you thought a glass of red wine was good for your heart is because of the booze industry buying bad science https://skepchick.org/2023/01/sorry-to-be-a-buzzkill-but-no-alcohol-has-never-been-healthy/

Some personal professional news: https://skepchick.org/2023/01/the-skepchick-network-is-dead-and-i-killed-it/

savory go-gurt?

me: we need to encourage more housing density

also me, after a neighbor does some stupid, thoughtless, completely avoidable shit: I would like to live 400 miles from the next closest human

I’m not going into the details but the native plants I’ve worked hard to establish in my backyard, like my sticky monkeyflower, are now gone and I’m so sad.

Here it is, my annual psychic prediction video! See how my clairvoyant scientist friends @BadAstronomer, @kejames and @bug_gwen did last year and what they think is in store for this year! https://skepchick.org/2023/01/psychic-scientists-predict-2023/