Cool and Fun

It’s cool and fun seeing PhD epidemiologists and virologists offering directly contradictory statements. Surely the normal folks out there will be able to choose the right one? No?

Resilver

Fuck I cannot believe I have to defend Nate Silver from these “experts,” but I guess sometimes one has to do distasteful things because they are correct.

It’s certain that the media and “experts” amplifying absolutely minuscule risks will increase vaccine hesitancy. One doesn’t need 20 PhDs to determine this — just a semi-working brain. Even if it’s the right decision in most contexts, it still will do this.

Tulip Too

Maybe I just take such things for granted, but speculation requires excess currency as a matter of course. How else would it occur?

Superstition Not Done

Raised in a climate where words hold all power, like many are, it’s no surprise that many come to believe spells work. Alas power is not really that way.

No Und

Extremely poor understanding of risk and meta-risk.

Probably not anything more than that.

NC

Ya’ll have not read your Nancy Cartwright and it shows.

Math worship is deeply weird.