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Do you really equate analyzing timelines critically with practicing gematria?

• jcranmer 6y ago
  Honestly, the way you're going about it, I would. To analyze the timeline properly, you'd have to actually get a large sample of events and look both for events that would support your thesis and those that would refute it. Especially for a topic like drug discovery in a rapidly-unfolding pandemic, where news sources might be reporting with various delays and the underlying studies might be reporting wildly variable results, it's important to not cherry-pick to do honest analysis. When you do gematria, you're asserting the importance of a pattern you've discovered without seeking how common the pattern actually is (which turns out to be pretty damn common in instances where the pattern doesn't have any implication). You're basically doing the same thing when you cherry-pick three events to support a conclusion in a context when there are many events you could choose from.