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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
I get what you're saying. I think there's an issue though, that neutrality is hard to come by for lots of reasons and especially nowadays when preference falsification is prevalent because critique of DEI/CRT is social suicid
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> although the article content itself is far from neutral Can we admit how pernicious it is that the school system itself is manifestly captured by ideological motives and that simply criticizing that is impossible to be "neutral&qu
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> we reject ideas of natural gifts and talents It's absurd to diminish talent (never mind maintain that it doesn't exist), this is used to marginalize accomplished people (like minorities) and frankly it's hard to see this
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
What's puzzling is that based on the CDC hospitalization data, we'd have at best 1~2 thousand children hospitalized if every child in America were to contract SARS-2 (rates show an average 1 out of 100,000 hospitalized for <1
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
I suspect the issue here is that the public health lever-pulling expert class has decided on an authoritarian strategy and maskless children would disrupt the facade of absolute conformity. You see people outright admitting this when they v
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> What I wonder about is how that came to be Social identity is a big one, and insofar as social media dispenses with the subtle social cues that we rely on to communicate and emote, I think we're stuck with this if we're going
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
There's a good clip from CBC in 2012 about flu surveillance and how it's an unverified estimate with very large bounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mViFHqDD9hI
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> as long as the virus circulates, we have a serious problem Sorry this is ridiculous. The coronaviruses that surfaced in the 20th and 19th c. are not as dangerous as they once were. And if they are, they're part of the array of vir
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> Ionnaidis has invested all his credibility at this point in the consensus view on the pandemic being wrong. Honestly given that the consensus view is very much based in (almost boundless) fear, and in lots of ways a sense of moral supe
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
For all the people downvoting you, yes it's a bit obtuse to deny that his opponents (I'm very ambivalent about him, leaning towards distaste) didn't use any and every opportunity to call him a racist/xenophobe/autho
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
FWIW seasonality, geography, and travel patterns seems to have played a large part in how long a country had to decide before enacting measures that would make a difference. It would seem that any country that was in summer during the sprea
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
And for some reason people are dead-set on dropping conventional wisdom despite in most countries the experts having disastrously failed.
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> And it turns out celebrating in the streets is basically completely safe. You wouldn't know it walking around the well-to-do section of the liberal city I live in.
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> that doesn't make the research itself irresponsible This seems like an absurd conclusion. If research isn't done responsibly in practice, and results in disaster, then the risks aren't worth it.
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
But you're trying to say that's he's downplaying the pandemic, when clearly he isn't. He's doing research that suggests some lower numbers than others. He's not the authority, and this is how science happens. A
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> and should go back to giving out about the quality of published papers Do you ever consider that he hasn't changed and you have during the pandemic? I realize that could come off as accusatory, but I've seen this said a bunch
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> The author is a Professor at the Stanford school of medicine and also a professor of statistics. Most people don't care. They selectively pick the academics that put out the most alarmist and pessimistic predictions (often predica
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
Lockdown policy as it played out around the world (clearly it seems some were lucky enough to enact it before mass spread, but after that it seems near useless and medieval) has the effect of pushing all disease burden equally instead of al
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
tulip bulbs aren't a gargantuan decentralized computer network
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
It's not far-fetched that there's a pervasive combo of conformity, virtual signalling and outrage.
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> how do we address issues where there's implicit bias being applied to our work? my experience is that most workplaces and social spaces I'm in are systemically liberal, "reality has a liberal bias" abounds
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
You're stating some pretty plain details, so it's funny to see this get downvoted (I guess just out of spite?).
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> but I sure as hell don't want to be part of such selfish civilization just that cashflow is maintained so where does pharma with no liability, running their own trials and effectively being handed blank checks during the pandemic
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> That is an extremely presumptuous statement to make. No, especially in the context of the pandemic, it's easy to start talking about pandemic policy as though "everyone should just do X" where X is something extremely co
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
Do we even have one piece of thorough, plain journalism that examines how much money these pharma companies are making from vaccines, testing, therapies, drugs, care, etc.?
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
You realize Vivaldi is essentially the modern replacement for Opera.
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
Per your bio, you work at Google. You're divorced from the experience of struggling people.
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
You do realize that normative claims like "they ought", "government should", etc. are precisely the faculty-lounge, haughty idealism, that's worth absolutely nothing to people as they are , spoken from a position o
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> reality doesn’t line up with your preconceived notions I'm claiming this precise thing, that you're arrogantly presuming that everyone can just hole up in their house like the elite class of people who do nothing but berate
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by xxxxxxx12 5y ago
> shut everything down and people get the message that this is serious the Pajama Class say this and then wonder why their "messaging" doesn't go over well with anyone who's not able to log into zoom and chat it up wi

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