Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾 (@higgsri) 's Twitter Profile
Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾

@higgsri

Lecturer: Digital Curation - DKIS, UCT.
Tech-sceptic, autistic self-advocate.
#CriticalPosthumanism, #DigitalHumanitiesAfrica
'Abhor mediocrity'

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calendar_today27-06-2013 12:18:30

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Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS (@drplantel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes, doctors treat symptoms, because people are in pain, can’t breathe, are bleeding, or battling infections. And while we’d love to prescribe 8 hours of sleep, produce, and a peaceful walk in the sun, sometimes what’s urgently needed is insulin. Or antibiotics. Or surgery. Or

Yes, doctors treat symptoms, because people are in pain, can’t breathe, are bleeding, or battling infections. And while we’d love to prescribe 8 hours of sleep, produce, and a peaceful walk in the sun, sometimes what’s urgently needed is insulin. Or antibiotics. Or surgery. Or
Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾 (@higgsri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's truly deplorable how learning about the human condition and inequality can engender a sense of empathy for those worse off than oneself and a desire for social justice. Disgusting, I tell you.

Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾 (@higgsri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thimerosal is not used as an adjuvant and never has been, so there's that. Children’s Health Defense has been bleating about vaccines for years; you think they'd know what vaccine ingredients are and their purposes.

Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾 (@higgsri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ironically, the biases in AI are the opposite of "woke". You have to be pretty hardcore right-wing to think AI algorithms and corpora lean left. Is Dawn f*scist-adjacent? And doctors should know the difference between "it's" and "its".

Rick Pescatore, D.O. (@rick_pescatore) 's Twitter Profile Photo

AI just beat doctors on paper. 85% diagnostic accuracy. The press called it revolutionary. Cool. I was cleaning blood and vomit off a gurney at 2:43 AM. 🧵 What Silicon Valley still doesn’t understand about medicine:

Rick Pescatore, D.O. (@rick_pescatore) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Amazing how there’s always money to build another diagnostic chatbot. But not a second ambulance. Not a psych bed. Not a caseworker after 5 PM.

Eric Lang M.D. (@lorenzo7127) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Neil Stone A blinded study, RFK Jr.-style, is one that's blind to the burden of proof, blind to statistical analysis and blind to glaring conflicts of interest.

Jake Scott, MD (@jakescottmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some people think our country’s health problems come down to a lack of awareness about nutrition and wellness. But the reality is far more urgent — and far more systemic. The real drivers of health inequity aren’t about whether someone knows quinoa is healthier than fries.

Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS (@drplantel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hyman’s post couldn’t be further from the truth….. Look, I’m all for teaching doctors practical nutrition education. We absolutely need to do better. But let’s not pretend that tossing nutrition lectures into med school is going to magically prevent 90% of heart disease and

Hyman’s post couldn’t be further from the truth…..

Look, I’m all for teaching doctors practical nutrition education. We absolutely need to do better. But let’s not pretend that tossing nutrition lectures into med school is going to magically prevent 90% of heart disease and
NeuronGarageSale (@neuronsale) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea Just finished my Christmas shopping in July. I got everyone on my list autism. They hell you mean I can’t give it to them now? What did I buy then?

Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾 (@higgsri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is very misguided Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. respectfully. The Nuremberg Code (which was succeeded by the Declaration of Helsinki) is an ethical code, it is not legislation. And it applies to experimentation ONLY. Any vaccine on the market (i.e. post clinical trials) is not experimental.

Vintage Toaster (@vintage_toaster) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ IMHO it’s a malice born of a sadly common authoritarian childhood that primes people to associate concern for others with their own humiliation and pain. I don’t think we can fix them, but we can work to reduce the number of kids subjected to the practices that created them.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea (@jonathanstea) 's Twitter Profile Photo

While RFK Jr. publicly insists we can't trust doctors or experts, even falsely claiming physicians profit off vaccines, D. Trump is relying on a team of doctors to manage his chronic venous insufficiency. Not crystals. Not supplements. Not vibes. Not dye-free ice cream.

Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾 (@higgsri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And all the nuance in that sentence is obliterated by a misrepresentative headline and people clamouring at it, trying to seem edgy, without the vaguest notion of critical thinking or engagement with the source. Welcome to social media.

Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾 (@higgsri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do you realise, anna that being extroverted, shallow, inauthentic & oblique just to fit in is something you can fix with practice? Authentic interaction skills are like any skills: autistic people are born with natural ability, but NTs have to learn through practice.

Philipp S. Holstein🎗️ (@psholstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nach meinem PCR-Thread kam wieder das Telegram-Mantra: „Der Test findet ja alles in jedem“ Nein. Das ist nicht kritisch gedacht, das ist Statistik für nichtselberdenkende. Zeit für eine kleine Erklärung über Tests, Legosteine und den Unterschied zwischen genau und egal. 1/11

Richard Higgs 🇿🇦 🗿 77 🎩👾🎼💾 (@higgsri) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Libertarians complaining about a person doing what libertarians do. Petulant selfishness is all very well until the lives of the petulant selfish are in danger.

Pawan Shukla (@shukla9_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump War Room BREAKING: Trump unveils his “elegant” new ballroom. Gold ceilings. Crystal chandeliers. Faux everything. Basically, if Liberace and a Vegas slot machine had a baby — this would be the nursery. Interior design tip: Money can buy a ballroom, but it can’t buy taste.

<a href="/TrumpWarRoom/">Trump War Room</a> BREAKING: Trump unveils his “elegant” new ballroom.

Gold ceilings. Crystal chandeliers. Faux everything.
Basically, if Liberace and a Vegas slot machine had a baby — this would be the nursery. 

Interior design tip: Money can buy a ballroom, but it can’t buy taste.