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40 sats \ 16 replies \ @DarthCoin 22 Mar \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
Lol, "unequivocal"!
"We've learned everything there is to learn about long term effects, in just a few weeks."
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I guess this is a good example of the Dunning–Kruger effect. He may be an expert in some areas but this is not one of them. Therefore, his opinion is no better than any other man on the street. If you have see Mark Dice, you know what that is worth!!
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This was a catastrophic failure of basic scientific reasoning. I think it's less Dunning-Kruger and more falling for ridiculous propaganda.
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Don’t think it was so ridiculous because so many people took it in and didn’t laugh at it at all. Laughing at it would have been a sign of very good reasoning and mental health. I laughed at the vaxx propaganda and blue-haired people, too. It doesn’t seem to endear me to them, though. Ahhhhh…..sometimes life is tough. :)
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"science" became one of my most hated words during the pandemic.
Any time someone said, "we're following the science", I shuddered and cringed.
Because when I ask anyone to cite a scientific paper it was crickets.
Because when I confront them that the original Pfizer study had like 4 cases of Covid out of 2,000 in the control group and 1 case out of 2,000 in the treatment group.... along wiht the study only testing for a single outcome and not all-cause mortality or side effects..... and when I ask them about confidence bounds or cost benefit tradeoffs.... crickets.
These people don't know f*** science if it kicked them in the nuts.
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I wholeheartedly agree with you. They don’t know that there is no such thing as settled science, since science is either replicated experiments or not replicated experiments, either of which may or may not validate a hypothesis and perhaps a theory. They also always ignore the statistics when they don’t point to the desired conclusions, amazingly enough! Then, to top it all off, they use a test that the inventor, Kary Mullis, said was ineffective and unsuited for that purpose. This is what you get when you have pay-for-play scientists, I guess.
And when things were grounded in science, like decades of research showing that masks don't reduce spread of respiratory viruses or all the evidence of adverse effects of the vaccines, the "Follow the Science" people would flip out.
It really came as no surprise to me, since I had been doing work in climate science long before Covid and I was very familiar with these "Pro Science" folks.