I read the original paper, nodding along as I did so, until I got to the end and they took a giant shit on the whole premise.
"These people demand facts and want to see the data themselves. They don't see experts as infallible. But they are stupid racists anyway."
Yet another example of assuming the conclusion that science comes from institutions and not the scientific method. And yet another example of nobody actually bringing the data that proves us wrong. All they have is namecalling.
Hat tip, my friend - the bad cat has outdone itself, once again! I just keep shaking my head at how this could happen. Even so many who have science degrees but do not work in academia today appear to have turned their backs on science and embraced institutionalized scienz. Rome teeters on the edge of a dark age.
Best post ever. As a geologist, I have always been fascinated by how the historic progression of earth sciences has been slowed down and even stopped for long periods of time by appeals to institutional authority. From uniformitarianism vs. universal ocean precipitates, to plate tectonics and continental drift vs. a variety of now defunct explanations for mountain building (such as the earth shrinking and wrinkling like an old apple). You have hit the nail directly on its head re the discarding of any semblance of scientific method in the "science" around this pandemic. I have found myself completely astonished by the pseudoscience BS coming from public health "authorities" and universities. Horrified at the rather brutal suppression of alternative opinion and debate. Scientists MUST be seriously sceptical. One who purports to be a scientist without scepticism, without willingness to consider other interpretations of the data, is a poseur, a fraud, despite degrees and positions. Lots of those around these days it appears.
MIT: Flat Earthers run the ivory tower. How dare anyone do observation and draw inference that offends the institution!
No such thing as dispassionate data analysis, is bilious BS, a talent I have been accuse of having! They never reveal the passion they accuse is offensive to a fiction they accept!
On the scatter diagram Berenson may be a bit too inductive and might belong. Ethical skeptic is definitely far too well read for MIT!
Some hoped the era of 'science advancing one funeral at a time' was over. Not so at MIT the Flat Earthers' ivory tower.
This paper is hilarious. The lack of self awareness by the authors is something out of a Monty Python sketch.
Don't let up. Let's do a follow up disecting the "brilliant" contributions of the paper's authors to Coivd research (or, anything...). I suspect it will be as thin as OJ's book on the search for the real killer.
Crazy thought, but what if this is a 'signaling' from the hostages that they're on our side? They had to write in code (ie the absurd conclusion) in order to get the message out?
Brilliant piece, as always. Are we anti-masker rationalists chimpanzees or bonobos, though? EL Gato switches midstream. Cats are notoriously fickle. If we are chimpanzees, our fight is going to be full-on aggression. If bonobos, we will smother the maskers with love.
They have codified scientific nihilism. Nothing means anything so the chimps must be told what to do by their titled betters who are able to contort the data into supporting narratives which further their preferred societal outcomes.
I've noticed a couple of true scientist lately (Dawkins and Harris) have errored by starting their logic on a foundation of what other 'scientist's' have reported. If they read this, they would surely be awakened from their lazyness.
Not sure how this got missed in the MIT kerfuffle.. it's wonderful! Currently this is my third most favorite el gato behind number one (unlikely to be displaced) In praise of lawn darts.. number rwo science + politics = political science.. thanks for being purrfectly wonderful! >3
Given the fact (Mattias Desmet, Stuart Ritchie, et al) that around 85% of all scientific articles published contain some debilitating data which brings conclusions drawn into question, why do we even bother referencing them anymore? Institutional and regulatory capture is wildly out of control. Full stop. An overhaul is required otherwise there is no off ramp on the highway to totalitarianism. May the 5%-ers (the "I will never concede" crowd) live on!
I read the original paper, nodding along as I did so, until I got to the end and they took a giant shit on the whole premise.
"These people demand facts and want to see the data themselves. They don't see experts as infallible. But they are stupid racists anyway."
Yet another example of assuming the conclusion that science comes from institutions and not the scientific method. And yet another example of nobody actually bringing the data that proves us wrong. All they have is namecalling.
Hat tip, my friend - the bad cat has outdone itself, once again! I just keep shaking my head at how this could happen. Even so many who have science degrees but do not work in academia today appear to have turned their backs on science and embraced institutionalized scienz. Rome teeters on the edge of a dark age.
Best post ever. As a geologist, I have always been fascinated by how the historic progression of earth sciences has been slowed down and even stopped for long periods of time by appeals to institutional authority. From uniformitarianism vs. universal ocean precipitates, to plate tectonics and continental drift vs. a variety of now defunct explanations for mountain building (such as the earth shrinking and wrinkling like an old apple). You have hit the nail directly on its head re the discarding of any semblance of scientific method in the "science" around this pandemic. I have found myself completely astonished by the pseudoscience BS coming from public health "authorities" and universities. Horrified at the rather brutal suppression of alternative opinion and debate. Scientists MUST be seriously sceptical. One who purports to be a scientist without scepticism, without willingness to consider other interpretations of the data, is a poseur, a fraud, despite degrees and positions. Lots of those around these days it appears.
crystal Lee is funded by WEF/Gates crowd.
Her only citations are her own posters referencing her own paper.
https://twitter.com/kevin_mckernan/status/1376517308076716034?s=21
Their review reads like a parody SNL skit
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”-Richard Feynman
MIT: Flat Earthers run the ivory tower. How dare anyone do observation and draw inference that offends the institution!
No such thing as dispassionate data analysis, is bilious BS, a talent I have been accuse of having! They never reveal the passion they accuse is offensive to a fiction they accept!
On the scatter diagram Berenson may be a bit too inductive and might belong. Ethical skeptic is definitely far too well read for MIT!
Some hoped the era of 'science advancing one funeral at a time' was over. Not so at MIT the Flat Earthers' ivory tower.
This paper is hilarious. The lack of self awareness by the authors is something out of a Monty Python sketch.
Don't let up. Let's do a follow up disecting the "brilliant" contributions of the paper's authors to Coivd research (or, anything...). I suspect it will be as thin as OJ's book on the search for the real killer.
Crazy thought, but what if this is a 'signaling' from the hostages that they're on our side? They had to write in code (ie the absurd conclusion) in order to get the message out?
They appealed to their own authority
Brilliant piece, as always. Are we anti-masker rationalists chimpanzees or bonobos, though? EL Gato switches midstream. Cats are notoriously fickle. If we are chimpanzees, our fight is going to be full-on aggression. If bonobos, we will smother the maskers with love.
They have codified scientific nihilism. Nothing means anything so the chimps must be told what to do by their titled betters who are able to contort the data into supporting narratives which further their preferred societal outcomes.
I've noticed a couple of true scientist lately (Dawkins and Harris) have errored by starting their logic on a foundation of what other 'scientist's' have reported. If they read this, they would surely be awakened from their lazyness.
Not sure how this got missed in the MIT kerfuffle.. it's wonderful! Currently this is my third most favorite el gato behind number one (unlikely to be displaced) In praise of lawn darts.. number rwo science + politics = political science.. thanks for being purrfectly wonderful! >3
"no wonder their civilization is going into such decline and disarray"
And you are just the cat to bring this to people's attention.
Given the fact (Mattias Desmet, Stuart Ritchie, et al) that around 85% of all scientific articles published contain some debilitating data which brings conclusions drawn into question, why do we even bother referencing them anymore? Institutional and regulatory capture is wildly out of control. Full stop. An overhaul is required otherwise there is no off ramp on the highway to totalitarianism. May the 5%-ers (the "I will never concede" crowd) live on!