It is sleazy. And yet...we heard Neil DeGrasse Tyson actually predicate his arguments about the pandemic on it. It's indulging in two logical fallacies, the bandwagon and appeal to authority. If this many expert doctors agree with the orthodoxy it can't be wrong.
I think for me it is just a general disappointment. I said this elsewhere, but before the pandemic officially began here, I spoke to a friend in China. There was a warning in his facebook post that "restrictions were coming." He talked about the lockdowns and the problems and I assured him I thought we would weather it like the bird flu/swine flu pandemics thinking there were still enough adults in the room to let cooler heads prevail.
Yes, I always thought theirs was the sleazy way but sleaze is cheap in the market.
It is sleazy. And yet...we heard Neil DeGrasse Tyson actually predicate his arguments about the pandemic on it. It's indulging in two logical fallacies, the bandwagon and appeal to authority. If this many expert doctors agree with the orthodoxy it can't be wrong.
I don't have the numeracy skills to count up all the people I used to even moderately admire who've completely lost my regard during our Plague Era.
I think for me it is just a general disappointment. I said this elsewhere, but before the pandemic officially began here, I spoke to a friend in China. There was a warning in his facebook post that "restrictions were coming." He talked about the lockdowns and the problems and I assured him I thought we would weather it like the bird flu/swine flu pandemics thinking there were still enough adults in the room to let cooler heads prevail.