Chris Kavanagh
Cognitive Anthropologist and occasional Social Psychologist. Researching rituals and cognition at Oxford, teaching at Rikkyo Univ. Norn Irish, based in Japan.
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Joe Rogan keeps raising doubts about Joe Biden's mental acuity
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It is one thing for the Trump campaign to claim that Joe Bidenâs mental abilities are slipping. It is another thing entirely for an extremely popular, mostly apolitical celebrity to say it too.
Jordan Peterson âsuffering with COVID & âgot worseâ after taking treatmentâ
CONSERVATIVE podcaster and professor Jordan Peterson is battling coronavirus after a nearly year-long battle with prescription drug addiction. Mikhaila Peterson, 28, told The Sun her dad caugâŠ
Why Do Japanese People Use Masks Against COVID-19, Even Though Masks Are Unlikely to Offer Protection From Infection?
Wearing masks against 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) is beneficial in suppressing pandemic spread, not through preventing the wearer from being infected but by preventing the wearer from infecting others. Despite not providing much protection, the...
Keri Smith - Cancelled with Rob Rosen and Desma Simon
Keri Smith was never cancelled- she was a canceller. A self-described former SJW, Keri used to be the manager for comedians like Margaret Cho and W Kamau Bell. Â When people would get their lives destroyed online, she was either part of the mob or...
Chris Kavanagh
The account here strikes me as a good illustration of how certain people ping pong from ideologies and often become harshly critical of their old ideology while being credulous about their new one. Keriâs anti-wokeness is her new identity.
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Search and rescue continues as Beirut wakes up to effects of devastating explosion
Search and rescue efforts continued in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, as the city woke up to the devastating effects of an explosion at the city's port on Tuesday.
Is Japan Religious? | Kavanagh | Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture
Chris Kavanagh
Here is a new article I wrote with @jontweetshere concerning if it is meaningful to talk about religion in Japan. As a spoiler, my answer is yes (+ researchers should pay more attention to non-Abrahamic, orthopraxic religious contexts).
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Vol 14, No 1 (2020)
The leading forum for constructive and normative studies on the relationship between religion and ecology.
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Chris Kavanagh
Hey the special issue I edited with @johnhshaver on âReligious Diversity and the Cognitive Science of Religion: New Experimental and Fieldwork Approachesâ is out. All articles are open access too.
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Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Robert Wright & Evan Thompson) - The Wright Show
Evan's new book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist ... Evan's critique of "Buddhist modernism" and "Buddhist exceptionalism" ... Which of Buddhismâs major claims are naturalistic? ... Is Buddhism fundamentally different than other religions? ... Bob defends...
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Chris Kavanagh
This is a fantastic discussion from a few months back on Buddhism and modern interpretations. Credit to both âŠ@robertwrighterâ© and âŠ@evantthompsonâ© for having such a productive exchange. FWIW Iâm firmly in Evanâs camp.
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Making Sense Podcast #213 - The Worst Epidemic | Sam Harris
In this episode the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Gabriel Dance about the global epidemic of child sexual abuse. They discuss how misleading the concept of âchild pornographyâ is, the failure of governments and tech companies to grapple with the...
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Sam Harris is the author of five New York Times bestsellers. His books...
Chris Kavanagh
Sam deserves credit for this horrifying but necessary discussion of a serious issue. âŠ@gabrieldanceâ© is doing important work publicizing this issue. Truly depressing but important to know about.
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Science Twitter Got Catfished by a Fake Professor Who 'Died From Covid'
A bizarre saga of events played out on social media over the weekend, embroiling much of the close-knit world of scientists, academics, and researchers on Twitter. It started with accusations that Arizona State Universityâs actions had exposed one...
Chris Kavanagh
OOf... I think this reflects that while the right eats up narratives about being a martyr to PC culture, the left does the same thing when it comes to marginalised identities. It doesn't mean the issues aren't real but we should be aware of our biases.
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Ranking Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) Twitter Accounts
The Intellectual Dark Web (or IDW) is a loosely-knit group of intellectuals, writers, academics, and other persons disenchanted withâŠ
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Chris Kavanagh
Confirmation bias leads me to entirely accept this ranking as it shows my interest is entirely proportionate đ.
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#212 - July 29, 2020 - Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
A Conversation with Kathryn Paige Harden
Whatâs hidden in my filedrawer and whatâs in yours? Disclosing non-published findings in the cognitive science of religion
(2020). Whatâs hidden in my filedrawer and whatâs in yours? Disclosing non-published findings in the cognitive science of religion. Religion, Brain & Behavior. Ahead of Print.
Chris Kavanagh
Also, tangentially related to @yorlâs discussion about lower cost ways to be more transparent, I recently came across this paper. Itâs dealing with unpublished studies so a bit different but maybe a similar thing could be done for published studies
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Two Psychologists Four Beers Episode 50: The Upside of Feeling Bad (with Claudia Haase)
Yoel and Mickey celebrate their 50th episode by welcoming Claudia Haase to the podcast to discuss relationships, life in East Germany before the fall of the Wall, admitting to mistakes, and the upside of failure.
No Evidence That Doctor Group in Viral Video Got Near COVID 'Front Lines'
Who are the physicians behind America's Frontline Doctors?
Chris Kavanagh
Given the viral reach & amount of misinformation present in that video, and that it is being signal boosted by the president and his family, you might think it a topic worth mentioning when discussing politicisation but no it receives zero consideration.
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More about chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine - CEBM
Jeffrey K Aronson, Robin E Ferner* On behalf of the Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service Team Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield
Chris Kavanagh
Here, they might have discussed the appropriate amount of scepticism one should assign to extreme outlier views when there is a general lack of high quality clinical evidence & that which has started to appear is almost uniformly negative.
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Hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19: Evidence canât seem to kill it
I find it odd at this juncture in late July that I've been writing about a certain drug that was touted as a "miracle cure" for COVID-19 as far back as March. I am referring, of course, to hydroxychlo
Chris Kavanagh
4. Rather than offering a critical, scientifically informed take on Risch's claims, Heather & Bret spend most of the segment linking it to Trump & politics. Had they looked at his claims critically they might have found things like the article below.
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Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk Covid-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis
Abstract. More than 1.6 million Americans have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and >10 times that number carry antibodies to it. High-risk patients presenting
Chris Kavanagh
David Risch is a Yale epidemiologist and thus the kind of authority who people would be likely to take seriously, based solely on his credentials. He published a review in the American Journal of Epidemiology pushing the same arguments back in May.
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