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by fwungy 3y ago
Like many corruption deniers you assume everyone is basically good and that the insiders don't rig the game, because... no reason given. A myriad of psychological experiments, e.g. Milgram, show that people are easily influenced to do
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by fwungy 3y ago
A true leader takes hard questions and answers them live. Watch some footage of Steve Jobs taking hard questions (yes, I know Steve Jobs had some real issues, because we have to mention that, but I cite him because he is one of the great le
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by fwungy 3y ago
Doctors depend on the free exchange of information to help their patients. It is one of the pathways that medicine advances. Covid was managed in a top down, hierarchical mode. Doctors who questioned it were threatened and punished by medic
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by fwungy 3y ago
Because the evidence doesn't point that way, and it's very expensive to make such an assumption, especially when much of the rest of the world doesn't follow.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Every Ph.D. goes through oral qualifications. An expert should be able to articulate and defend their views on the subject at hand in a live question format.
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by fwungy 3y ago
I'd just like to see them answer some hard questions, just like I have to answer on my job. The point of vaccines is to extend human lifespan and reduce illness. It should be a relatively easy matter for them to show that taking more v
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by fwungy 3y ago
Not really. They do it all the time. Legislator votes for the right bills and her niece gets a cushy job somewhere in exchange. You can't prove anything wrong happened. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. - George Carlin h
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by fwungy 3y ago
You don't become a career scientist or doctor by rocking the boat. A medical degree is a huge investment. Doctors have student loans and families. Anyone who sticks their neck out is at risk of losing their license or research grants.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Poor countries have no incentive to pay carbon fees. Then have rich countries pay their carbon fees? So then tax payers of developed nations take the hit and have their own economic output lowered while countries ignoring carbon fees move a
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by fwungy 3y ago
China is the world's manufacturing powerhouse. It's very difficult to get the economic leverage to sanction China, and convincing developing nations to go along would be virtually impossible.
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by fwungy 3y ago
A debate in real time between qualified adversaries. Treat these things like you're making a major investment. Make both sides answer hard questions from each other. For example have RFK and Fauci put together teams of MDs and PhDs to
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by fwungy 3y ago
Corrupt government officials get a commission on big contracts. It happens all the time. Why do you think people spend so much campaigning for low paying political offices? They can be quite lucrative investments. There are NDAs and other t
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by fwungy 3y ago
I really don't trust any of the numbers on covid. A vaccine for a dangerous illness that can affect billions of people is a very big payday. There's lots of money to spread around to politicians, corrupt scientists, and corrupt me
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by fwungy 3y ago
Reddit: Dumb acting smart. 4chan: Smart acting dumb. HN: Smart acting smart.
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by fwungy 3y ago
It would cost them a lot of money and have no impact on CO2 levels. Chinese and Indians will not magnanimously sacrifice their money to lower their CO2, and if they don't then it doesn't matter.
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by fwungy 3y ago
You made the politicians who signed off on this very wealthy. Government programs mean big contracts, and the people who decide on those contracts always get their slice. If they were serious about decarbonization they'd be pushing nex
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by fwungy 3y ago
You wouldn't drive a 15 year old car. Why read a 15 year old book?
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by fwungy 3y ago
I like looking at the Tesla rechargers standing around in the back of my local supermarket parking lot.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Slippery slope only applies as a critique when the its spurious. In this case the precedent of government required reporting leading to regulation is very well established.
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X: We are a common carrier Government: You must censor X: OK, we'll remove content deemed highly offensive Government: You're not a common carrier now.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Russia and Opec will take the western fuels and sell them to the developing world at lower cost because western demand has left the market. That will increase demand and usage in those markets.
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by fwungy 3y ago
They have to make decisions. That's how things are accomplished. Did you ever see a politician run seriously on "I didn't get anything done?" Little people select politicians by their feelings about the information the m
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by fwungy 3y ago
Not my point. Politicians always push for a scientific consensus they can act on, whether it's there or not.
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by fwungy 3y ago
What explains massive shifts in the climate? Why do we have ice ages? Why do they end? The climate is millions of years old. We have at best 200 years of data. If we are wrong about this Putin wins big time as Russia is sticking to its foss
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by fwungy 3y ago
Elon Musk owns the biggest EV company. If that doesn't make you suspicious I don't know what will.
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by fwungy 3y ago
Policy makers are rewarded for making decisions. Scientists are rewarded for being accurate. It's a constant battle. A politician with a science report has official CYA for whatever they do, as they were making the decision based on sc
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by fwungy 3y ago
Large models, such as climate models, which are among the largest are highly vulnerable to high variance because of the high dimensionality of their parameter sets. Say you have n continuous parameters to your mode. This equates to an n dim
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by fwungy 3y ago
As someone who doesn't fall squarely into the corporate left or corporate right bins I'm used to being attacked for not getting my news from the approved corporate media organs. How can people think that someone is producing free
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by fwungy 3y ago
If you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear from an audit by armed goons.
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I wonder how many people wouldn't love a chance to live on an organic heirloom farm in tune with the seasons, surrounded by old friends and family? The serfs also had about one third of their time off for feast and holidays.

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