Jan Vrbik

Professor of Math&Stats

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@ArtsyChowRoamer @ChrisMartzWX For a freelance writer Artsy should know her English: whoM to see!

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@NicholasLissack @netanyahu @POTUS This would be it, if true (and I hope it is).

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@kevinnbass and the idiotic governments who went along without checking (breaking many of their own laws in the process)!

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@toobaffled Most likely government 'health' officials guilty of the same crimes!

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@MichelleLA1981 Pueblo idiota es seguridad del tirano (old Spanish proverb)

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@realdanfreeman Finally!

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

I cannot begin to describe how sick I am of the sanctimonious, “credentialed” types now emerging to tell us that no one really knew, that everything was messy, that it was the fog of war, and that everyone was simply doing their best under difficult circumstances.

None of that is true.

The evidence was there and the facts were known, it’s just that the public health establishment, the credentialed elites, and the institutions they control lied about the origin of the virus, the infection rate, lockdowns, masks, the “vaccines,” and everything else.

Many of us knew it at the time, and we said so at the time. That is the part I find hardest to accept. The people who lied, enforced the lies, or quietly went along with them will keep their jobs, their television contracts, their prestige, and their institutional power. Meanwhile, those of us who challenged them from the trenches were threatened with professional ruin, censorship, and permanent dismissal as conspiracy theorists. And many paid exactly that price, despite having been right all along.

We risked everything by telling the truth. They risked nothing by lying. We were punished, and they were rewarded.

[Nancy Mace @NancyMace]

Bill Maher read the DSA platform to a Los Angeles studio audience and they GASPED OUT LOUD.

Shocked by their own party's platform.

[Jonathan Cohler @cohler]

FOR THE WILDFIRE CRAZY AND
CLIMATE MENTALLY DERANGED

The last 150 years is the greatest improvement in the human condition in the entire history of our species. It is not close.

Fire is down.

US burned area peaked at 52 million acres in 1930. It runs 5 to 10 million now. An 80 percent collapse. Global burned area, measured by satellite since the late 1990s, is down 25 percent.

Africa’s savannas, which used to dominate the global burn, have gone quiet as agriculture replaced fire-prone scrub.
The planet is greening.

Satellite data shows a leaf area increase equivalent to adding one entire Amazon rainforest to the Earth since 2000. Zhu et al. attributed 70 percent of the greening to CO2 fertilization. Deserts are shrinking at their edges. The Sahel is greener than it was 40 years ago.

Crops are exploding.

Global grain production has more than tripled since 1961 on roughly the same acreage. Yield per hectare on wheat, maize, and rice has quadrupled. Famine deaths per capita have fallen by roughly 99 percent since the 1870s.

People live twice as long.

Global life expectancy in 1875 was about 30 years. Today it is 73. More than doubled. In the developed world it went from 40 to over 80. Doubled again.

Children stop dying.

In 1800, 43 percent of children died before age 5. Today it is under 4 percent globally, under 1 percent in the developed world. A tenfold reduction. An order of magnitude.

Poverty collapsed.

In 1820, roughly 90 percent of humans lived in extreme poverty. Today it is under 9 percent, and falling. Another order of magnitude, while the global population grew from 1 billion to 8 billion. More people, vastly less poverty, per capita and in absolute terms.

Everyone can read.

Global literacy in 1875 was around 20 percent. Today it is 87 percent. Four times higher across a population that grew six times larger.

Everyone got rich.

Real GDP per capita globally (Maddison data, constant dollars) went from about $1,200 in 1870 to over $16,000 today. Roughly a fourteenfold increase. In the developed world, more like fiftyfold.

Weather stopped killing people.

Deaths from climate and weather related disasters peaked in the 1920s and 1930s at around 5 million per year, mostly drought and flood in Asia. Today, with five times the global population, it runs under 20,000 per year. A per capita reduction of over 99 percent. Two full orders of magnitude.

Work got easier.

Average annual working hours in developed economies fell from around 3,000 in 1870 to about 1,700 today. Roughly half. Child labor collapsed. Leisure exploded.

The cause is not a mystery.

Fossil fuels. Coal, oil, and natural gas turned muscle labor into machine labor. They powered fertilizer production (Haber-Bosch alone feeds roughly half the humans alive). They powered refrigeration, sanitation, hospitals, tractors, transport, and every step of the industrial food chain. Cheap dense energy is what dragged our species out of the Malthusian trap where it had lived for 10,000 years.

And the byproduct of that cheap dense energy, CO2, is the same molecule that is regreening the Earth and boosting crop yields on top of the mechanical gains.

Every actual measurement of the human condition and the biosphere shows the same thing.

Fires down. Green up. Lifespans up. Child deaths down. Poverty down. Hunger down. Wealth up. Literacy up. Weather deaths down. All by factors of 2 to 100 in a century and a half.

The industrial civilization the alarmists want to dismantle is the single largest engine of human and ecological improvement ever recorded. The data are not ambiguous. They are not close.

They are not debatable.

They are simply denied.
By the mentally ill.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Physicist William Happer and MIT's Richard Lindzen recently went on the Joe Rogan podcast.

For once, real physicists, not activists, got mainstream airtime.

"The theory that CO2 is the climate's control knob doesn't work," said Happer, adding that Lindzen and others could have made far more progress "if they hadn't been forced to deal with this CO2 cult."

Most activists don't understand the science, they just repeat what fits their ideology and parrot the failed forecasts made by bad actors.

But the tide is turning.
And the science is finally being heard.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Peer-review is not a part of the scientific method. Period.

The peer-review system, as it exists in its current form, has only existed since the 1970s (maybe 1960s in some cases). It is a relatively modern academic gatekeeping process, it’s not an ancient pillar of science.

Issac Newton, Galileo, Charles Darwin, and even much of Einstein's work (specifically his four Annus Mirabilis papers in 1905) were published without “peer-review.”

Science advances with new evidence, replication, and falsifiability. “Peer-reviewers” typically do none of the above things when reading over a paper that is submitted to an academic journal. Reviewers are anonymous “experts” who often just stamp approval for any papers they happen to agree with and reject ones that challenge their own biases or research because they want to be right.

Just because something has been “peer-reviewed” does not necessarily mean it is accurate.

And just because something hasn't been subject to the academic circle jerk does not necessarily mean it is invalid.

Your peers agreeing with your ideas does not automatically make your ideas valid.

“Peer-review” approval not the arbiter of truth. It can be. Sure. But it can also be gatekeeping.

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@VividProwess Not 'leave' but be removed immediately!

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@McfarlaneGlenda Exposing Fauci gives me hope that the truth will also surface, sooner or later, with climate-change fraud, 'rebuilding Canada at unprecedented pace' claim, and similar (frequently absurd) nonsense.

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@dubsndoo Seeing Fouci on the stand gives me hope: it may take time, but the truth will always come to the surface, whatever the issue.

[Toby Rogers @uTobian]

Every step was designed to inflict maximum harm:
Splicing HIV into a coronavirus.
Blocking access to hcq and ivm.
Removing NAC from the shelves.
No early treatment.
Respirators that kill 90% of patients.
Seeding nursing homes with Covid+ patients.
Blanket DNR orders for the disabled.
"15 days to flatten the curve" that slowed the rate of natural immunity.
Closing schools for two years.
Masks that reduce oxygen.
Shutting down gyms.
Keeping liquor stores open.
Closing hiking trails and parks thus preventing people from getting vitamin D.
Remdesivir and Paxlovid that are expensive, useless, and deadly.
The most toxic and deadly vaccines in history on a new platform that will never work.
Billions of dollars spent on propaganda to convince people to accept every step of this nefarious plan.
Firings, censorship, and blacklisting of critical thinkers.

Covid is a world war, launched by the ruling class, against humanity.

[Overton @overton_news]

Watch Anthony Fauci’s body language closely throughout this exchange.

As Senator Josh Hawley ripped into him for a full minute and a half, Fauci appeared visibly uncomfortable.

He scratched his ear at the exact moment Senator Hawley said, “You’ve lied to the American people.”

When Hawley began talking about the alleged financial and power abuses, Fauci became restless, let out several sighs, looked down, and began fidgeting with his hands.

Interesting.

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@LichTamara The truckers lifted the spirit of many of us; one day soon they will be declared national heroes!

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@Roman_Baber @AnitaAnandMP @MarkJCarney Canadian fires help them maintain their 'existential threat' narrative

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@kanch7 You seem to be getting a lot of support for your statement!

[Jan Vrbik @vrbik_jan]

@RealAlexJones Alexander has succeeded!