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Mark Wauck's avatar

I read the original paper this morning but didn't feel competent to summarize. It's pretty big, although in a sense confirmatory--most scientists were pretty sure of this.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

She does a very nice job making it intelligible.

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dissonant1's avatar

What's with the D+ weightings all the time? D+14 a lot of the time for the 2016 and 2020 presidential races, give me a break!

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Mark Wauck's avatar

It's entirely possible.

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chuck99z28's avatar

We're going to have to shutdown the fear mongers. May take another visit from Jesus to do that.

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Hemsley Hawes's avatar

It seems to me once the appropriate scrutiny is put on the high-ups in this criminal cabal, it will be very easy to sort the lying criminal fraudsters from the contemptibly compliant.

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Lawrence L.'s avatar

I'm about 1/3 the way through Bobby Kennedy's book. It is amazing how the sharp (defamatory) knives have come out for him on the left:

https://twitter.com/barnes_law/status/1471179640156786688

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Dec 17, 2021
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Lawrence L.'s avatar

He's been a bete noire of the right forever. His moment of hate from the left is what's amusing. But we've known forever that: "All within the narrative, nothing outside the narrative, nothing against the narrative."

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Storms69's avatar

“Contemptibly compliant” — love that phrase. Perfect description.

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Dec 17, 2021
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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I had a hard time finding his biography. Seems degrees from Stanford. Probably has to parrot the party line so he is not cancelled.

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Dec 17, 2021
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dissonant1's avatar

The willingness to re-examine past positions, admit mistakes, and formulate new positions accordingly is indicative of a mature intellect, a truly scientific approach, and humility. Although GR isn't perfect, those qualities are in short supply nowadays and we need to take them where we find them.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

That's good on him. Hey, I had my hair on fire for a while, too--mostly because I thought this might be an escaped bioweapon. I still think it came from a lab, but probably as part of a vaccine research project of some sort. Possibly as an antidote. But I think he's also right that people want to move on.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

You left this key part out:

"It is. And now that it’s over, we need to claw back all the power seized by various institutions in the name of emergency. And when that’s done, we need a searching inquiry into how the power was exercised — an inquiry with consequences."

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Dec 16, 2021
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dissonant1's avatar

It is clear the CDC (that is, the CDC Director) trumps the FDA advisory panels these days. How and when that was legally enabled I don't know.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Left hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing? Or something?

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