How we’ve mischaracterized it.
I’ve noticed that in public-policy areas in which we do a crap job of risk assessment/tradeoffs, it is areas in which there are policy agendas independent of the actual issues.
Category Archives: Science And Society
Counting Calories Burned
This is interesting, and potentially useful research.
As the old saying goes, you can’t run away from a bad diet.
A Promising Life-Extension Drug
I hope that this is as good as it sounds.
We’re not making enough new people, so we’re going to have to keep the ones we have around longer.
Lileks
I haven’t linked him in a while, but he has a nice remembrance of PJ, and some tart commentary on the mask Nazis.
The Lie That Was Covid
Bob Zimmerman lays it out:
Since day one of the epidemic practically every policy decision by government and the largely Democratic academic community has been based on lies. And those lies caused the initial response to COVID to be wrong and misguided. It was panicked, thoughtless, based on very flawed models rather than the actual data, and did far more harm than good. The later and continuing mandates requiring the COVID shots and masks to keep one’s job, to fly on airplanes, to cross borders, to even go to school or attend public events, are even more insane, based not on the now long-known facts but on lies and fear and the urge by those in power to wield that power corruptly.
It is long past time for everyone to stop buying into these lies.
Indeed.
About That “SpaceX Rocket” That’s Going To Hit The Moon
It turns out that it’s probably Chinese.
But people wanted to believe it because SpaceX.