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Nate Silver has been blatantly wrong several times during COVID, has been schooled by actual scientists and is now on a personal vendetta against them. He is r

by aredox 3y ago

Nate Silver has been blatantly wrong several times during COVID, has been schooled by actual scientists and is now on a personal vendetta against them. He is ready to fan the flames of science-bashing because his fragile yet enormuous ego has been hurt. That tells all that you need to know about him. (Don't believe me? He has never apologised nor shown a little bit of humility after being corrected. That's who he is.)

tekla 3y ago
Provide links please.
- Fomite 3y ago
  https://twitter.com/GermsAndNumbers/status/1634087467874947073?s=20 https://twitter.com/GermsAndNumbers/status/16340874678749470... This is a somewhat flippant take of mine, but is emblematic of a lot of Nate Silver's posting during the pandemic, which is that epidemiologists are all hyper risk adverse ninnies, and we're clearly at the end of the pandemic.
  - SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
    You could go to the 2016 election and see Nate Silver backtrack and never admit failure if you like. This guy came up out of nowhere and is a clown.
    - epups 3y ago
      How did he fail in the 2016 election? He produced one of the best prediction models.
- aredox 3y ago
  I've quit twitter and that stupid website now won't allow people to see tweets if you're not logged in, so I guess you'll just have to search "Nate silver wrong" by yourself, big guy...
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hooverd 3y ago
Superforecasteritis is the new Nobelitis.
COGlory 3y ago
Science bashing? As in he's bashing the scientific method? Or what is this (noun, proper) "science" you speak of?
- aredox 3y ago
  The science done by actual scientists. The ones that write: "Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another." that Nate Silver is now twisting into "the scientists lied, don't trust them" because they had the intellectual curiosity to imagine alternative scenarios in a Slack channel.
  - COGlory 3y ago
    So, some science done by some scientists. Very different that "science bashing" which implies all science done by all scientists.
runsWphotons 3y ago
Give examples.

by aredox 3y ago

tekla 3y ago

Provide links please.

Fomite 3y ago
https://twitter.com/GermsAndNumbers/status/1634087467874947073?s=20 https://twitter.com/GermsAndNumbers/status/16340874678749470... This is a somewhat flippant take of mine, but is emblematic of a lot of Nate Silver's posting during the pandemic, which is that epidemiologists are all hyper risk adverse ninnies, and we're clearly at the end of the pandemic.
- SV_BubbleTime 3y ago
  You could go to the 2016 election and see Nate Silver backtrack and never admit failure if you like. This guy came up out of nowhere and is a clown.
  - epups 3y ago
    How did he fail in the 2016 election? He produced one of the best prediction models.
aredox 3y ago
I've quit twitter and that stupid website now won't allow people to see tweets if you're not logged in, so I guess you'll just have to search "Nate silver wrong" by yourself, big guy...
- deleted 3y ago
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hooverd 3y ago

Superforecasteritis is the new Nobelitis.

COGlory 3y ago

Science bashing? As in he's bashing the scientific method? Or what is this (noun, proper) "science" you speak of?

aredox 3y ago
The science done by actual scientists. The ones that write: "Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. More scientific data could swing the balance of evidence to favor one hypothesis over another." that Nate Silver is now twisting into "the scientists lied, don't trust them" because they had the intellectual curiosity to imagine alternative scenarios in a Slack channel.
- COGlory 3y ago
  So, some science done by some scientists. Very different that "science bashing" which implies all science done by all scientists.

runsWphotons 3y ago

Give examples.