Science. Thinking. Philanthropy.
RXMD is setting a new standard for science communication by intersecting science, thinking, and philanthropy.
Science Communication:
For Scientists, Philosophers of Science, and Science-minded Individuals
Science communication has two problems.
The literacy problem (i.e., helping people understand science) gets most of the attention. The rhetorical problem doesn't. Denialist argumentation is built for persuasion. Scientific reasoning is built for accuracy. Those are different skills, and the second one is rarely taught explicitly.
RXMD is about the second one. That means the vocabulary of scientific epistemology, how science gets misrepresented in public discourse, and the specific moves by which denialist arguments manufacture doubt, borrow credibility, and exploit the gaps in how fields communicate their own methodology.
It's written for people already inside science, which is not to explain what science is, but to make a certain standard of engagement with it feel like the obvious baseline.
Three things I'm working on: science tutoring, a publication on how scientific arguments get won and lost, and a project documenting Wefwafwa's story in Uganda.