βThen, a premium awaits those who, instead of blandly following tradition, or trying to foist their preferences onto the physical or social universe, are open to what the Universe teaches.β
- Carl Sagan
#science #mindfulness
Itβs immediately clear that Putin is slow-walking the US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. He has no intention of accepting the proposal, but Putin needs to avoid saying βnoβ directly to Trump.
And he needs only a few days to invent a provocation that makes the proposal unacceptable.
The purpose of efforts to study (the non-existent) links between #vaccines and #autism is to run multiple small studies with poor controls, then terminate early and publicize those that demonstrate the desired outcomes. #badscience
The Trump administration is negotiating with Ukraine in bad faith. US will not under any circumstance restore arms shipments and intelligence sharing, or do anything to improve the security of Ukraine whatever steps Ukraine takes.
