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Stuart Buck

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Stuart Buck

@stuartbuck1

Executive Director, Good Science Project Formerly: @arnold_ventures, @harvard_law, @kellogghansen Classical guitarist and author

Georgia

goodscienceproject.org

Joined June 2011

Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Oct 20, 2025
Walked past a woman in Trader Joe's today. She had a baby strapped to her chest, wailing inconsolably. The woman looked quite stressed. I said, "Hang in there, you're doing great!" She smiled and said thanks. Walked past her in the parking lot later, and she said that I
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Feb 11, 2025
Replying to @DOGE
I can read books I own that are 150+ yrs old, but cannot do anything with floppy disks or cassette tapes that I had in the early 2000s. Maybe paper records are actually better for agencies that need to maintain records for several decades?
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Sep 1, 2019
How the vast majority of people and organizations think about evidence:
Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Dec 8, 2024
Hospitals: "we demand to charge $15,000 for a service that costs $5,000 in Australia. We never tell the patient the price in advance" Insurance company: "That is too high, we will only pay $12,000" Commenters: "The insurance company is so heartless and cruel!!"
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Oct 22, 2018
This Harvard Business Review chart seems to have been made by someone who didn't know what most of the terms meant: hbr.org/2018/10/which-…
Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
May 11, 2023
Replying to @cowboy_postbop
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Jon
@ArfMeasures
Sep 19, 2018
Boss: We need a name for our film studio Me: Let him go first, he'll copy my idea 1-up Karl: No I promise I won't Me: Ok my idea is 19th Century Fox 1-up Karl: *looks at camera*
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Sep 29, 2024
Replying to @extrafabulous
It's been all over the news (Twitter and TikTok).
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Feb 17, 2025
Replying to @PatrickJBlum
The cafeteria here is the only one I've ever been to: si.edu/museums/americ…
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Jun 7, 2025
Replying to @1followernodad and @animalologist
I grew up in the 1980s, and at age 11 or 12 on, my cousin and I would ride our bicycles for miles outside of town. No one knew where we were for hours.
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
May 11, 2023
Replying to @stuartbuck1
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Ysliax🥶
@YsliaY
Mar 23, 2015
Driver: My God… that weasel… Onlooker: He just went… “pop”… Weasel’s family: *sobbing* Ice-cream man: I’ve got an idea for a song y’all.
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Feb 13, 2025
This is why DOGE should do just a tiny bit of homework before trying to cancel items that they don't understand. The program below was launched by DARPA in 2018 in order to prevent cyberattacks and phishing that happen via social deception. darpa.mil/research/progr…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Feb 13, 2025
Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Oct 3, 2025
Replying to @veggie_eric
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Jul 29, 2025
Replying to @CJHandmer
Canceling food deliveries to starving babies is one of the worst possible ways Luke could use his talents, and nothing he has done could make more than a trivial difference to the budget, particularly given working for an administration that is adding trillions of extra debt.
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Stuart Buck
@stuartbuck1
Jan 22, 2023
It's easy to romanticize the past . . . My grandfather was born in this farmhouse in Arkansas. Life was so hard that he couldn't afford new shoes--he had to repair old shoes with tire rubber. He hoped I would grow up to "get an indoors job." google.com/maps/@36.39537…
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