by orchaeus | Jun 21, 2021 | Shared Link
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-sun-is-stranger-than-astrophysicists-imagined?utm_source=pocket-newtabWe’re about to discover that a lot of what we call science is actually just bias, + hubris, + failure to examine our own bias and hubris…...
by orchaeus | Jun 20, 2021 | Status Update
I f I were to simply say, on facebook, FFS… I wonder what those who read it might make of it…
by orchaeus | Jun 20, 2021 | Shared Link
https://youtu.be/uagBr-Dds3II am seeing more and more claims in the media that begin or end with “There’s no evidence that (append some concern or assertion about something here)”. But absence of evidence != evidence of absence. This is a rhetorical...
by orchaeus | Jun 18, 2021 | Status Update
“There is no evidence that [ insert question or concern here ] is true.” I am seeing a lot of headlines like this about vaccination these days. There’s a rhetorical error here, because an absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence and cannot...
by orchaeus | Jun 17, 2021 | Status Update
In Re Some Idiots vs Obamacare: “It was an audacious ask of the Supreme Court — requesting the justices strike down the entire law despite only claiming that a single provision of Obamacare is unconstitutional. Especially since the provision that the plaintiffs...
