Sciencemob

Where to find ScienceMobsters: A List

I'm going to try to do this in alphabetical order, to the best of my ability.  I'm listing people by their twitter handle, because otherwise I get confused.  I'll be updating this list silently.  It is current to 8/29/2010.

Some people were drafted (like PZMyers) and some people volunteers. 

All that's necessary to be part of the ScienceMob is a demonstrated ability to confront and refute proponents of pseudoscience.  Some people do this primarily on Twitter; others on their blog or elsewhere.

Exactly The Attitude!

Another Placard for the Protest

Anonymoosh keeps coming through

The Origins of ScienceMob

It all started with a series of tweets from Homeopathyinfo (http://twitter.com/homeopathyinfo/).

Which struck me as very, very funny. 

So I said

And nominated a bunch of people to be part of the #sciencemob.  Eventually http://twitter.com/kashfarooq/  asked for a list, so I made one:  http://twitter.com/lizditz/sciencemob.

Generally the criteria for being on the list is pretty simple:

• science / reality based
• Forthright about challenging pseudoscience (homeopathy, chiropractic for anything other than low back pain, reiki, etc.)

Then the fooling with images began:

 

and  then I looked for images of, well, polite protest, and found this:

 

Finally, the admirable http://twitter.com/Anonymoosh/ created the best image:

So there you have it: #sciencemob on twitter.