https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/

Have your doctor selectively ignore the anti-vax and non-ionizing EM radiation ducks.

Probably not much consolation, but, hey...good luck

What's next? You going to assume my gender too?

It's comments like this that reveal the abject hypocrisy of the left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

There's some good (microbiome research, cracking down on influencers advertising drugs), some bad (anti-fluoride, autism scare, vaccine scare, EM radiation scare), some I can't evaluate (usefulness of non-animal models, usefulness of AI in cancer research and in diagnostic medicine), and some that depend heavily on implementation (prescription impact on mental health, building a general data platform, changing nutrition labelling).

It's certainly doesn't seem like a dismantling of the agency nor an attempt at corruption.

However, RFK Jr. and the rest of this administration has a lot of baggage, I heavily disagree with the idea that the bad ideas here are just a distraction duck.

But re. China, is that entirely true? I was under the impression that traditional Chinese medicine (which we westerners usually consider quack) is very much integrated into medical practice in China, although I don't know if that extends to medical research. I could be wrong though, I don't have a clear view on Chinese affairs.

I'm honestly tired of seeing all these AI wannabes bragging on Twitter and LinkedIn about how they've built a tool that does "10x better" than something else, and how they only hire people willing to work 80 hours a week, with no life and no need for money. They're trying to normalise tech sweatshops because their VCs told them that being a psychopath is the fastest way to get a return on investment. These founders are so driven and so dumb that I have more respect for flat-earth conspiracy theorists than for this new wave of brainless, heartless founders.

And I don't buy into their Mother Theresa's story either, that they'll exploit people for decades, cash out billions, and then magically turn into philanthropists to fix all the harm they caused.

This is the time to use technology to solve real problems. That's the mission, that's why we're here. The leading causes of death for American children are firearms and motor vehicle accidents. The Volvo engineer who invented the seatbelt is a hero because he saved millions of lives.

We need to stop these shallow founders from destroying the reputation of our industry.

(Sorry for the rant)

The conspiracy theory element is a heuristic for evaluating the crackpot theory: setting aside the particulars of the theory, does it also require an utterly enormous, vastly powerful group to keep that secret (but not quite powerful enough to keep you from having discovered the truth)?

That's a heuristic, not a proof. But it does give you a hint about which notions are worth your time to investigate further.

The lab leak origin of the SARS2 unpleasantness was called a 'conspiracy theory' and those who supported it were called 'crackpots' and 'science deniers'.

Those who voiced doubt on the efficacy and safety of the mRNA therapies pushed for the same were called 'crackpots' and 'science deniers' by the same crowd.

The same was true for those who were open to other treatments for the disease, things like Ivermectin and the like.

It has taken many years and the jury is still out on the efficacy of many 'alternative therapies' but by now it is clear that the virus did escape from the very same lab pointed out by all those 'conspiracy theorists' and 'science deniers', that the mRNA therapies lacked efficacy and that the lack of a targeting mechanism for delivering mRNA to the right locations - in this case mucous membranes - while keeping it away from organs which stood to be harmed if the mRNA were to be delivered there - ovaries, testes, heart muscles and more - radically changed the risk profile for delivering these agents to younger people who were unlikely to be harmed by the virus but were (and are) at risk of harm from those same agents.

And what happened to the reputations of those who labelled these dissenters 'conspiracy theorists' and 'crackpots'? Nothing happened, they just moved to whatever cause the current desired narrative dictates - we've always been at war with Eurasia after all?

It is remarkable how risk-free it is to label people 'conspiracy theorists' or any of the other epithets bandied around by the chattering classes. Where in the pas nobody ever got fired for choosing $brand nowadays it seems to be that nobody ever gets fired for labelling those who do not follow the narrative 'conspiracy theorist' or 'crackpot' or 'racist' or '${identity_group}phobe'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26540458

Do you want more? Most of hackernews was at worst disagreeing, at best supporting it, and most people were 50/50. I'd love, really love, to see an article were 10% of the comments or more were aggressively dismissive of people believing in the lableak, instead of engaging with them. The only dismissed theory was that the COVID was manmade, like I wrote before. But please find proof if this is a rewrite?

People seem to really love seeing themselves as victims, I hate that.

All this does for me is shows these people are in only for the kickbacks.

Outside of ignoring the constitution (ICE), giving/continuing a tax break worth billions to the top 1% and eliminating science nothing that will help the US in the future has been done.

If this is not stopped, all the US will have left is a weapon building industry. Remember, drug research, a huge growing industry that the US leads has just be killed by RFK jr.

These people don't care for you. You are just Menschenmaterial to them, something to be be used, abused, exploited, then discarded.

(In fact, I'm pretty sure the reason I know that smart meters use 5G is because of the crackpot theories about "smart meters use 5G, and we all know what that does!!11One!".

This is absolutely fine by me. There is nothing hyperbolic about the statement and it's quite literally just a research request. How did it got turned into this headline?