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Originally posted by cdtm
What could they really do though?

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Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
Our economy has suffered a major hit because of the fear mongering and overreaction to the virus which led to these massive lockdowns and stupid rules. It is doubtful we will ever fully recover economically. China has crippled us and they need to pay. Period.

If it is ever confirmed that what China did was intentional then the next best thing besides making them pay in blood is refusing to pay our huge debt to them. That would really piss them off.


I wasn't for that before but now I am.

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Originally posted by dadudemon
Based on some of the extremely shitty published research out there in the "science" land, previously unpublished authors and the lack of a peer review means little to nothing to me.

Since we have a replication crisis where 50% to 90% of all research cannot be duplicated (meaning, it is shit science no better than arbitrary guesses), I have little faith in research. Instead, I look for good methodologies and intelligent data analysis. And then form my own opinion. While also acknowledging that they could have doctored their result values just to get the significance figure they wanted.



I've talked about this, before. The only place you're going to find super hardcore, unbiased, pure science, is in machining and consumer automotive. Even then, there is bias. But you'll get a set of scientists that will find a result that shows a failure at .003% of the time during specific stress tests. They will tell you, for sure, if the stress tests are legitimate to the vast majority of use cases in the real world. And if the stress test results are indicative of a safety concern. Business people then decide to accept the risk or reject it. If rejected, rework gets done. It gets expensive.

So if you see a car get recalled for a very deadly result, it is extremely likely that real science already found that risk but some big wig accepted the risk and they went to production, anyway.




Feels like we are getting off track. I'm not too concerned about the previously unpublished authors. I'd be concerned with the data, itself. And what exactly they are trying to claim from whatever research they did.

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Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Well you won't find good methodologies or data analysis in that paper.

You'll find the genetic equivalent of people saying Tabby's star was aliens.