Reminder that our Evidence-Based Science Response to Corona - involving denials of freedom & routine not seen since WWII - emerges from social media propaganda orchesrated by China & boosted by empty-headed Bay Area thinkfluencers like the narratologist Tomas Pueyo ...
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... Epidemiologists, virologists and public health experts, who before this propaganda onslaught advocated a balanced, minimalist mitigation response to the pandemic, were among the first to fall to the preference cascade. ...
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... Now all of them advocate indefinite lockdowns, forever masks, and constant testing, on the basis of nothing but press hysteria and whatever the neighbouring countries are doing. This is your Science, this is your Evidence Based Policy. ...
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systems that select for maximal agreeableness invariably lead to dysfunction seems powered by large scale demographic shifts in both academia & medicine
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Increased dependence of scientists on gov't grants, disappearance of independent gentlemen scientists, proliferation of committees in place of individual decision-making, shift in demo to more agreeable women, all work to disincentivize production by less agreeable geniuses.
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hard agree. turns out remaking academia into a conversational hugbox where everybody wins might have some disadvantages.
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