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"> ... Of course there's justifiable skepticism and a long, sorry history of unintended consequences ..." "> ... that includes even the armchair criticism from
by DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
"> ... Of course there's justifiable skepticism and a long, sorry history of unintended consequences ..."
"> ... that includes even the armchair criticism from cynical misanthropes ..."
NN Taleb's Black Swan, Antifragile are must-reads for any engineer with an "opinion" about the "reliability" and "soundness" of science, that they really ought to read before doing the "well-ack-shu-ally": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_the_Highly_Improbable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_...
- bedobi 6y agoWell, akshully... this species is invasive everywhere outside Africa, constitutes only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and doesn't fill any meaningful ecological role anywhere. Also, Taleb is to finance what Graham Hancock is to archeology. He's a quack and an author, not a legitimate anything.