Serdar Basegmez
@serdar.uk
Scientific Skeptic, Procrastinating Writer, Podcast Fanatic, Tolerable Speaker, Conspiracy Whisperer, Minister of Silly Jokes, Shilling at
@yalansavar.bsky.social, @greenwichskeptics.org & @londonskeptics.bsky.social, Ex-Istanbulite New-Londoner
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@yalansavar.bsky.social, @greenwichskeptics.org & @londonskeptics.bsky.social, Ex-Istanbulite New-Londoner
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Serdar Basegmez
@serdar.uk
· Oct 10
Virüslere inanmadığını iddia eden bir virolog, onun mikrop kuramı inkârcılığı ve aşı karşıtları tarafından halen çarpıtılarak aktarılan kızamık virüsü davasını @skeptic.org.uk için yazdım.
Unspoken Rule: If you’re asking data from a legacy system, keep your transformation requests simple. The other developers probably don’t give a sh*t, and they’ll do a half-baked job if you complicate things.
(Not that I know of anything!)
(Not that I know of anything!)
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Unspoken Rule: If you’re asking data from a legacy system, keep your transformation requests simple. The other developers probably don’t give a sh*t, and they’ll do a half-baked job if you complicate things.
(Not that I know of anything!)
(Not that I know of anything!)
IDE karşıtı arkadaşlarım meğerse IDE derken Visual Studio'dan bahsediyorlarmış.
Eski bir C projesini recompile etmem gerekti diye girdim VS'e, üç gündür çıkamıyorum. Böyle garip bir IDE görmedim ben. Ne nerede, nereden ne yapılıyor hiç bir şey anlamadım.
Eclipse çok gürültülü geliyordu bana, haşa!
Eski bir C projesini recompile etmem gerekti diye girdim VS'e, üç gündür çıkamıyorum. Böyle garip bir IDE görmedim ben. Ne nerede, nereden ne yapılıyor hiç bir şey anlamadım.
Eclipse çok gürültülü geliyordu bana, haşa!
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
IDE karşıtı arkadaşlarım meğerse IDE derken Visual Studio'dan bahsediyorlarmış.
Eski bir C projesini recompile etmem gerekti diye girdim VS'e, üç gündür çıkamıyorum. Böyle garip bir IDE görmedim ben. Ne nerede, nereden ne yapılıyor hiç bir şey anlamadım.
Eclipse çok gürültülü geliyordu bana, haşa!
Eski bir C projesini recompile etmem gerekti diye girdim VS'e, üç gündür çıkamıyorum. Böyle garip bir IDE görmedim ben. Ne nerede, nereden ne yapılıyor hiç bir şey anlamadım.
Eclipse çok gürültülü geliyordu bana, haşa!
I’m really looking forward to this.
The London branch was the very first Skeptics in the Pub group, and it started a tradition more than 25 years ago. Now we’re bringing it back. Exciting!
The London branch was the very first Skeptics in the Pub group, and it started a tradition more than 25 years ago. Now we’re bringing it back. Exciting!
Skeptics in the Pub is finally back in London with @deborahhyde.bsky.social!
We’re kicking off our return on 3 Dec with Deborah Hyde, who’ll talk about Krampus and the folklore that shadows St Nicholas. A great way to restart a long-running tradition.
More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...
We’re kicking off our return on 3 Dec with Deborah Hyde, who’ll talk about Krampus and the folklore that shadows St Nicholas. A great way to restart a long-running tradition.
More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I’m really looking forward to this.
The London branch was the very first Skeptics in the Pub group, and it started a tradition more than 25 years ago. Now we’re bringing it back. Exciting!
The London branch was the very first Skeptics in the Pub group, and it started a tradition more than 25 years ago. Now we’re bringing it back. Exciting!
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Skeptics in the Pub is finally back in London with @deborahhyde.bsky.social!
We’re kicking off our return on 3 Dec with Deborah Hyde, who’ll talk about Krampus and the folklore that shadows St Nicholas. A great way to restart a long-running tradition.
More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...
We’re kicking off our return on 3 Dec with Deborah Hyde, who’ll talk about Krampus and the folklore that shadows St Nicholas. A great way to restart a long-running tradition.
More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Skeptics in the Pub is finally back in London with @deborahhyde.bsky.social!
We’re kicking off our return on 3 Dec with Deborah Hyde, who’ll talk about Krampus and the folklore that shadows St Nicholas. A great way to restart a long-running tradition.
More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...
We’re kicking off our return on 3 Dec with Deborah Hyde, who’ll talk about Krampus and the folklore that shadows St Nicholas. A great way to restart a long-running tradition.
More info: sitp.online/sitp/london/...
Reposted by Serdar Basegmez
What does ‘safe’ mean for people persecuted for their identites like the non-religious & LGBTQ+? Their risk doesn’t disappear because a country looks stable on paper.
Reassessing thousands of cases every 30 months won’t capture that nuance, and the Home Office is already overwhelmed.
Reassessing thousands of cases every 30 months won’t capture that nuance, and the Home Office is already overwhelmed.
Refugee status set to become temporary in radical asylum reforms
Refugee status set to become temporary in radical asylum reforms
People granted asylum in the UK will only be allowed to stay in the country temporarily, in sweeping reforms to be announced on Monday.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What does ‘safe’ mean for people persecuted for their identites like the non-religious & LGBTQ+? Their risk doesn’t disappear because a country looks stable on paper.
Reassessing thousands of cases every 30 months won’t capture that nuance, and the Home Office is already overwhelmed.
Reassessing thousands of cases every 30 months won’t capture that nuance, and the Home Office is already overwhelmed.
Adana'da pencereye çıkıp cloud'a ateş ettiler!
Old man yells at Cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Adana'da pencereye çıkıp cloud'a ateş ettiler!
Cloudflare'in çökmesi AWS'den daha yıkıcı... Internet gitti...
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Cloudflare'in çökmesi AWS'den daha yıkıcı... Internet gitti...
Reposted by Serdar Basegmez
Tonight, I'm in conversation with @lizzicollinge.bsky.social MP. As a humanist and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, she offers a rare, clear view from Parliament on @humanists.uk's campaigns in action. She also happens to be very fun! humanists.uk/events/in-co...
In conversation with Lizzi Collinge MP
Lizzi Collinge is the Labour MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group which brings together around 130 MPs and peers.
humanists.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Tonight, I'm in conversation with @lizzicollinge.bsky.social MP. As a humanist and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, she offers a rare, clear view from Parliament on @humanists.uk's campaigns in action. She also happens to be very fun! humanists.uk/events/in-co...
But... his... e-mails...
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
But... his... e-mails...
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India’s traditional healing cornucopia comes with a side of heavy metal poisoning.
Arsenic, lead, mercury... but also elephant dung?
Ayurveda can harm your liver. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
Arsenic, lead, mercury... but also elephant dung?
Ayurveda can harm your liver. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
Ayurveda Can Harm Your Liver
“I know where you live. I know your address. I know who you are. Trust me, they won’t even find your dead body.” This threat was not made privately; rather, it was posted on Twitter and addressed to D...
www.mcgill.ca
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
India’s traditional healing cornucopia comes with a side of heavy metal poisoning.
Arsenic, lead, mercury... but also elephant dung?
Ayurveda can harm your liver. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
Arsenic, lead, mercury... but also elephant dung?
Ayurveda can harm your liver. My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social.
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
Reposted by Serdar Basegmez
We had a packed room yesterday for an excellent talk on the history of quacks and charlatans in medicine by @drjlange.bsky.social at @greenwichskeptics.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We had a packed room yesterday for an excellent talk on the history of quacks and charlatans in medicine by @drjlange.bsky.social at @greenwichskeptics.org
That’s a really good piece explaining what set QED apart and highlighting the nature of skepticism in this generation.
Thanks, Hayley!
Thanks, Hayley!
The conference that proved we can achieve great things has come to an end, but the future of the grassroots skeptic movement is just beginning. #QED
open.substack.com/pub/theghost...
open.substack.com/pub/theghost...
The Past, Present, and Future of QED
The conference that proved we can achieve great things has come to an end, but the future of the grassroots skeptic movement has just begun.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
That’s a really good piece explaining what set QED apart and highlighting the nature of skepticism in this generation.
Thanks, Hayley!
Thanks, Hayley!
Good point! These kinds of misconceptions are supported by politicians as well.
Why the lede image of small-boat arrivals when the vast, vast, vast majority of those "who moved to the UK after Brexit" arrived with visas and on planes?
#trashMedia
#trashMedia
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Good point! These kinds of misconceptions are supported by politicians as well.
Conspiracy: Grok is secretly engineered as a secret AI Ethics project. They want to make a point on how ugly a bad actor in AI business can get.
November 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Conspiracy: Grok is secretly engineered as a secret AI Ethics project. They want to make a point on how ugly a bad actor in AI business can get.
Remember, remember 5th of November.....
O sırada Luna...
O sırada Luna...
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Remember, remember 5th of November.....
O sırada Luna...
O sırada Luna...
Kılıçdaroğlu taktikleriyle çakma sağcılığa öykünmek yerine etkili muhalefetle çözüm öneren solculuk bir kez daha zafer kazandırdı.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York on winning night for Democrats
Democratic socialist, 34, becomes city’s first Muslim mayor as Democrats triumph in several other key races
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Kılıçdaroğlu taktikleriyle çakma sağcılığa öykünmek yerine etkili muhalefetle çözüm öneren solculuk bir kez daha zafer kazandırdı.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Join us on Monday, 10 Nov at 19:30 for "The Quacks and Charlatans of Medicine" with Dr Jenny Lange (@drjlange.bsky.social) at The Plume of Feathers, Greenwich.
From goat glands to bleach cures, how medical fraud has fooled the desperate, then and now.
More info: greenwichskeptics.org
From goat glands to bleach cures, how medical fraud has fooled the desperate, then and now.
More info: greenwichskeptics.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Join us on Monday, 10 Nov at 19:30 for "The Quacks and Charlatans of Medicine" with Dr Jenny Lange (@drjlange.bsky.social) at The Plume of Feathers, Greenwich.
From goat glands to bleach cures, how medical fraud has fooled the desperate, then and now.
More info: greenwichskeptics.org
From goat glands to bleach cures, how medical fraud has fooled the desperate, then and now.
More info: greenwichskeptics.org
Reposted by Serdar Basegmez
#QEDcon was really special this year. Here are a few shots I took during the event, including the awarding of a special book of memories to the organizers.
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
#QEDcon was really special this year. Here are a few shots I took during the event, including the awarding of a special book of memories to the organizers.
November 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We had almost exactly the same list for Tayyip Erdogan, nearly 15 years ago.
Either Trump's moving a lot faster than his fellow autocrats, or the U.S. doesn't have quite as many "checks and balances" as they like to think.
Either Trump's moving a lot faster than his fellow autocrats, or the U.S. doesn't have quite as many "checks and balances" as they like to think.
An authoritarian...
stifles dissent/speech
persecutes opponents
bypasses legislature
uses military domestically
defies courts
declares false emergencies
vilifies groups
controls info/media
controls universities
creates cult of personality
uses power for profit
manipulates law to stay in power
stifles dissent/speech
persecutes opponents
bypasses legislature
uses military domestically
defies courts
declares false emergencies
vilifies groups
controls info/media
controls universities
creates cult of personality
uses power for profit
manipulates law to stay in power
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We had almost exactly the same list for Tayyip Erdogan, nearly 15 years ago.
Either Trump's moving a lot faster than his fellow autocrats, or the U.S. doesn't have quite as many "checks and balances" as they like to think.
Either Trump's moving a lot faster than his fellow autocrats, or the U.S. doesn't have quite as many "checks and balances" as they like to think.
"Sosyal açıdan desteklenmesi gereken" derken tam olarak ne demek istiyorlar acaba.
"Zorla yapıyoruz, bize kalsa umurumuzda değil" mi yani?
"Zorla yapıyoruz, bize kalsa umurumuzda değil" mi yani?
October 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Sosyal açıdan desteklenmesi gereken" derken tam olarak ne demek istiyorlar acaba.
"Zorla yapıyoruz, bize kalsa umurumuzda değil" mi yani?
"Zorla yapıyoruz, bize kalsa umurumuzda değil" mi yani?
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🔴 Reform UK Just Won Britain’s Least-Prestigious Award – For ‘Promoting Pseudoscience’
Nigel Farage’s party was recognised for “widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/r...
Nigel Farage’s party was recognised for “widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/r...
Reform UK Just Won Britain's Least-Prestigious Award – For 'Promoting Pseudoscience'
Nigel Farage's party were recognised for “their widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”
bylinetimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🔴 Reform UK Just Won Britain’s Least-Prestigious Award – For ‘Promoting Pseudoscience’
Nigel Farage’s party was recognised for “widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/r...
Nigel Farage’s party was recognised for “widespread embrace of climate change denialism and antivaccine misinformation.”
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/29/r...
That was the last sign of #qedcon I have seen, and I officially left Manchester now.
Massive thanks to the fantastic organiser team of QED and all of their brilliant full-time volunteers. I have attended fascinating sessions and panels, and seen lots of lovely people again. Safe travels everyone!
Massive thanks to the fantastic organiser team of QED and all of their brilliant full-time volunteers. I have attended fascinating sessions and panels, and seen lots of lovely people again. Safe travels everyone!
October 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
That was the last sign of #qedcon I have seen, and I officially left Manchester now.
Massive thanks to the fantastic organiser team of QED and all of their brilliant full-time volunteers. I have attended fascinating sessions and panels, and seen lots of lovely people again. Safe travels everyone!
Massive thanks to the fantastic organiser team of QED and all of their brilliant full-time volunteers. I have attended fascinating sessions and panels, and seen lots of lovely people again. Safe travels everyone!
Reposted by Serdar Basegmez
Listening to a heartbreaking talk by Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips on Ayurvedic, an alternative medicine system used in India which has grown to have a veneer of legitimacy with research institutes, PhDs & colleges. All why using deeply dangerous and exploitative treatments. #QEDCon
October 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Listening to a heartbreaking talk by Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips on Ayurvedic, an alternative medicine system used in India which has grown to have a veneer of legitimacy with research institutes, PhDs & colleges. All why using deeply dangerous and exploitative treatments. #QEDCon