…is just as biased and overconfident as humans can be.
Well, it’s taught by humans.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Public Health’s Sacrificial Lambs
This is a deep, deep problem. I hope it’s not intractable. Jay Battacharya has a heavy lift. The way so many used the pandemic to seize power over the lives of others reminds me a lot of the climate scam.
[Afternoon update]
A thing we don't talk about enough is how bad the CDC guidance was for opening things up during Covid
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) April 27, 2025
Read the details! It was insanely unrealistic but was used by states to act in very insane wayshttps://t.co/Ona38iTQXI
Looking For Water On The Moon
“Why Do I Have Guns?”
…because of people like Taylor Lorenz.
The Proposed “Science Budget Cuts” At NASA
Bob Zimmerman says that there are things deserving of cutting.
I certainly agree about Mars Sample Return, and said that on X this morning. I think we need a dramatic change in how these funds are allocated and prioritized, and the current decadal needs to be completely redone.
But I also don’t pay much attention to what OMB says at this point in the process.
I would add that it’s inappropriate for OMB to propose a NASA budget ahead of the confirmation of a NASA administrator who has been named for months. I wouldn’t put up with it if I were president. I personally consider OMB’s NASA budget proposal DOA, and I hope that Trump does as…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 14, 2025
Jurassic Park, Here We Come
SOUND ON. You’re hearing the first howl of a dire wolf in over 10,000 years. Meet Romulus and Remus—the world’s first de-extinct animals, born on October 1, 2024.
— Colossal Biosciences® (@colossal) April 7, 2025
The dire wolf has been extinct for over 10,000 years. These two wolves were brought back from extinction using… pic.twitter.com/wY4rdOVFRH
I suspect they went extinct because the Siberian-Americans wiped out their food supply. It seems to me that the next de-extinctions should be woolly mammoths, mastodons, ground sloths, and ancient bison, to give them worthy prey. There’s apparently no record of them being north of 42 degrees, but that’s probably because it was covered in ice at their time.
The Latest In The Mann Suit
Without comment, other than I disagree with the headline.
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The tables turn.
[Monday-morning update]
A good analysis of the judge’s ruling.
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A good summary of the current state of play.
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Gen Z
…is the most conservative generation because they were victims of the left’s failures.
Junk Nutritional Science
Great speech by Nina Teicholz: "They tell us to limit saturated fats and instead eat five and a half teaspoons of seed oils every day. They tell us to eat more than half of our calories as carbohydrates. This advice is squarely contradicted by rigorous clinical trials."
— Camus (@newstart_2024) March 25, 2025
"I… pic.twitter.com/fPDbsllLLl
“Fifteen Days To Stop The Spread”
Time flies. It’s been five years since one of the (many) big lies about the pandemic.
We had to fumigate the house for termites, and decided to take the cats up to Cambria for a couple days (their first, and so far, only road trip, which they probably think was some kind of weird dream), so we wouldn’t have to board them. We were supposed to meet some friends from Berkeley, but the lock down had just begun in the Bay Area, and they decided not to go. I wouldn’t say that the town was a ghost town, but it was decidedly weird. When we got back to LA, things just started rapidly deteriorating with all the lunacy from there.
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Jennifer Sey: “The five-year anniversary of the lockdowns is here, and I’m angry.”
So am I. So should we all be. And Deborah Birx (among many others) has never been held accountable for her (her word) “subterfuge.“
[Thursday-morning update]
Lileks remembers.
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