1. A short thread about science reform, based on a conversation I've been having with several wonderful colleagues. As people push to insert more and more bureaucracy into the practice of scientific research so as to police a few bad apples, Iâm reminded of a FOX News piece Iâve written about.
In this example drawn from a Fox News story, we demonstrate how Fermi estimation can cut through bullshit like a hot knife through butter.
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âRoughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husbandâs last name. Roughly 90 percent of married female voters have different name on their ID than on their birth certificate. 34 percent of women could be turned away from polls unless they have precisely the right documents.â FUCK THESE FUCKS.
Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And thatâs where the GOP sees an Achillesâ heel.
Maybe you've heard of the #BirdsArentReal movement, but here's an equally wild idea that is nevertheless true: TREES DON'T EXIST (phylogenetically). By which I mean "trees" aren't a distinctive group or 'clade', they're a shape that plants grow into, like how animals tend to evolve into crabs.
. @OurWorldInData provides a lot of valuable information. Nevertheless, this article by @cketchamwild makes some astute and important points about its ideological framing of this data, false explanations of certain trends and selectivity. A must-read. www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/t...
How billionaire elites help fund an Oxford statistics lab that makes the destruction of Earth look just great. Roughly a decade ago, a