Yep, she sidestepped that one. She also sidestepped the question on her changing policy positions. Two occurrences from Trump that caught my...
I finished In my time of dying. Indeed it is stunningly well written, and I think it’s also fascinating. I didn’t know any of that stuff about...
Maybe I worded this poorly. What I meant was that I reserve some skepticism even for our most accepted theories of scientific knowledge. That is...
Of course. This is certainly how I view biologists’ acceptance of evolution. What I meant was that if we are going to open up the possibility that...
I think these are great tenets of skepticism for everyone to adopt. However, I do believe that they are fundamental tenets of all scientific...
If it is indeed a result of tribal affiliation, which I find plausible, it’s a problem that cuts both ways. If engineers are only skeptical of the...
Aging, @BLING’s was a reasonable post that didn’t deserve this personal insult, IMO. To your argument, I take @l_boy’s point that if a question...
And if I offered to inject you with not much more than an ass pimple’s worth of Ebola, you’d have no problem with that?
So Nate Silver is terrible + Nate Silver predicts Trump is in the lead = Harris is in the lead?
NPR analysis of the question of greedflation, suggests an unsatisfying but likely best answer: it’s complicated. The Biden administration has...
Determining precisely how much climate forcing comes from all environmental factors is a major scientific challenge indeed. In the 2010s, it...
If there is anything that drives political thought in 2024 America, it’s the relative corruption ratings of cabinet officials in 1998 Russia.
I think there certainly are many doomsdayers that have hurt their own mission by exaggerating the extent and speed of climate change. I also think...
Being that she’s not near as well known, I think Kamala’s in a slightly different boat than Hillary, giving her more upside in a debate. Of course...
Here we have two independent issues: are humans causing it, and what would it cost to fix it. On the first question, I am still wondering what...
And what happens when they are injected with bleach?
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A couple nuances here: First, Thiel is an investor in polymarket, but I’m not sure he’s rightly called “owner”. Second, Silver does indeed work as...
To your first point, indeed there is no reason to view the climate of 1900 as objectively than the one we have today or will have tomorrow....
This is actually a problem scientists completely acknowledge and have gone to great pains to control for. The BEST project was developed to...
