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A new study shows that wildlife is migrating out of black neighborhoods because of systemic racism. This does seem pretty legit to me, like have you seen how racist swans are towards ducks moving into their pond? And swans are usually white while ducks sometimes come in brown...

$&#@! Science is now disagreeing with the Fact Checkers! https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/sex-men-not-skin-contact-fueling-monkeypox-new-research-suggests-rcna43484 So apparently Monkeypox really doesn't transmit much from skin-to-skin contact, it's actually an STD...

Fact Checkers debunked this, saying Monkeypox is Sexually Transmitted is disinformation... https://lifehacker.com/is-monkeypox-a-sexually-transmitted-disease-1849343210 And according to the WHO, those words are just as dangerous as the virus itself.

We have an "urgent need" to rename Monkeypox in order to combat racism. That's the priority here, changing the word definitions. https://meaww.com/who-monkeypox-racist-africa

https://www.concordia.ca/cuevents/offices/provost/fourth-space/programming/2021/06/decolonizing-light.html How can Indigenous concerns and Indigenous knowledges take a centre place in the science of light? Concordia researchers are exploring this question together with students and Indigenous...

Some fun new science on climate change. This one is, well, kinda dumb but illuminating. They somehow said the quiet part aloud and showed what we would actually have to do to meet their insane climate change goals, as listed out in their Decent Living Standards...

Also, we don't have the technology to cause volcanic eruptions at will. There's a few theories on how it might be done but nothing that's ever actually succeeded.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651211008507?journalCode=apaa& Whiteness is a condition one first acquires and then one has—a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic...

Were aristocrats really even all white and male? I would think given the way that worked, the percentage of female aristocrats would be about half. Were all of the males marrying commoners?

We need a science cringe megathread for stuff like this. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2020GL091805 Apparently, human pollution was actually reducing global warming. Of course, the scientists aren't going to admit their entire model system was wrong, just present it...