Dan Dalthorp

Crisis? What Crisis?

Ecologist & statistician standing athwart the epistemic collapse of science, saying "🤔…very interesting."

[Dan Dalthorp @DalthorpDan]

@MarioNawfal Thank-you, Le Corbusier, for a century of grand blandness and rational ridiculosity.

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@LocasaleLab I recall *Scientific American* being great fun in my HS and undergrad days—excellent, accessible writing about all kinds of interesting science. But that was decades ago. It's almost unreadable garbage now—mostly just sanctimonious political spin on sciencey-sounding topics.

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@TradamWest @_Plac3_hold3r @politicalmath @varadmehta @KelleyKga Fauci did his reading and bent over backwards to put a camera-ready political spin on it to misdirect a compliant media a fawning public.

Birx did her reading but couldn't comprehend it.

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@dg001901 @RadioGenoa @grok 1. that's not what it says, and 2. literally no one ever uses that to justify dashing children against a rock.

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@mysteriouskat equal rights under the law
freedom of speech, press, religion
a hundred others

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@_A_khalifa 🤣

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@janey15408827 @hkakeya Most virologists study different things and would not necessarily know a lot or anything about statistics or logic.

It seems like few do. The ones who are the most sure & have the biggest microphones almost invariably know very little.

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@Kronykal Gerard Baker uses the word (e.g., check out the hilarious example sentence Miriam-Webster picked out for the word: https://t.co/T2eiV14lTG), but it's not clear he knows what it means.

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@ChucoBRWNkid "Come at me, leakers"

Yeah, right.

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Yes, it certainly "has been concluded…"

But please don't hide behind the passive voice. Who concluded that? And why?

[Hint: Not anyone credible and not because of solid evidence or reasoning.]

[David Young M.D. @davideyoungmd]

@quay_dr After much consideration, it's been concluded that COVID-19 came from an animal at the market. Traces of the virus were FOUND at the market.

As to the likelihood that a virus like COVID-19 would develop among bats? Extremely likely. Yes, extremely likely.

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@LamedBet @notcomplex_ No, it doesn't look bimodal. Small sample.

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@NiohBerg "A double rainbow! That's the only thing that's more powerful than evil," I once heard someone say.

I hope it works in Iran.

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@TelGlobalHealth @honigsbaum Yes, the study "suggested" that SARS-CoV-2 did not need "special adaptation."

No, their data and logic do not support the suggestion.

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@Bryce_Nickels It's sad to see young, energetic researchers like Andersen, Pekar, Crits-Christoph get sucked into this so early in their careers and then not be able to find a way out.

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@Rebecca21951651 @R_H_Ebright @carlzimmer @julianbarnes The Slack chats are a target-rich environment. Galling

"I hate when politics is injected into science - but [let's go all in and never give it up]."

He was thinking about the "circumstances," but once you sacrifice intellectual integrity for politics, it's hard to get it back.

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@R_H_Ebright @Rebecca21951651 @carlzimmer @julianbarnes Don't forget Andersen

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@RogerPielkeJr Only 176? Try harder!

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@CIDRAP Even if (and it's a big IF) the conclusion is true (namely, "spread directly…w/o adaptation"), it is not at all inconsistent with LL and, at the very least, provides ZERO evidence against LL.

This endless stream of crap does not help the "Trust the Science™!" trademark.

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@AncPhi The problem with being an autodidact is that your teacher doesn't know anything.

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@RogerSeheult Science lags perception. Perception beats imagination, but imagination trumps perception in the imagination.

People imagine they'll like year-round DST. When they see how it works in practice, they dump it immediately (cf. 1974).

Science cannot approach it in a meaningful way.