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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…

> 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 sim…

> 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 min…

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…

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 co…

> 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 emot…

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

> 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 wer…

> 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 b…

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 t…

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 wou…

And for some reason people are dead-set on dropping conventional wisdom despite in most countries the experts having disastrously failed.

> 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.

> 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 …

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 …

> 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…

> 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…

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 th…

tulip bulbs aren't a gargantuan decentralized computer network

It's not far-fetched that there's a pervasive combo of conformity, virtual signalling and outrage.

> 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 …

You're stating some pretty plain details, so it's funny to see this get downvoted (I guess just out of spite?).

> 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 effect…

> 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 ju…

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.?