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I try to avoid if/then reasoning damookster Send a noteboard - 29/05/2021 08:59:37 PM

Possibly because it is inherent in both Oracle java and SQL and I get more than enough of that at work.

To be serious for a moment, that's what was done to Senator Cotton - the Senator supports some unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. He also supports the possibility COVID escaped from a Wuhan lab. Therefore that must also be an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

Or not. Two things can both be true. Being wrong about one doesn't mean one is wrong about both, or everything. Sadly that is the level of current discourse.

Fact: everyone lies. Fact: politicians are a subset of everyone. Therefore politicians lie? Valid conclusion. Therefore everything they say is a lie? Not a valid conclusion. All it takes is one true statement to disprove it.

So the fact that WHO and the CDC spent a year disparaging the possibility that the Chinese might have been culpable in the release of COVID is a serious stain on their credibility. But that doesn't mean everything they maintain is bullshit.

Probably just most of it.

Mook

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Man bites dog, sun rises in the west, and they are playing ice hockey in hell damookster - 27/05/2021 05:14:34 PM 865 Views
Why is this important? Earnestly I am asking *NM* Roland00 - 27/05/2021 07:40:36 PM 192 Views
From the same NYT email: damookster - 27/05/2021 08:34:25 PM 411 Views
Shrug I feel that is motivated reasoning, I will respond earnestly at a later time *NM* Roland00 - 27/05/2021 08:50:42 PM 209 Views
Well... entyti - 28/05/2021 09:54:01 PM 409 Views
Wow you are putting words into my mouth *NM* Roland00 - 29/05/2021 07:40:22 PM 176 Views
Nonsense.. I put your words in my mouth... entyti - 30/05/2021 05:57:53 AM 347 Views
I try to avoid if/then reasoning damookster - 29/05/2021 08:59:37 PM 390 Views
Agreed: Probably just most of it Roland00 - 29/05/2021 09:10:43 PM 370 Views
It is 44F and raining in Connecticut damookster - 29/05/2021 10:25:20 PM 362 Views
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80s and sunny in New Orleans aerocontrols - 30/05/2021 05:26:05 AM 346 Views
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Ivermectin? aerocontrols - 29/05/2021 10:35:00 PM 368 Views
Re: Ivermectin? entyti - 30/05/2021 07:00:42 AM 370 Views
Ivermectin is the active ingredient in heartworm medicine aerocontrols - 30/05/2021 02:45:19 PM 397 Views
Are you saying LiterateDog is super-human? *NM* Roland00 - 30/05/2021 04:09:45 PM 181 Views
Surely not aerocontrols - 30/05/2021 07:31:49 PM 338 Views
Also, according to Donny my dog... aerocontrols - 30/05/2021 08:32:11 PM 409 Views
Link to a paper written in February 2020 damookster - 29/05/2021 12:16:34 AM 514 Views
Jon Karl says the quiet part out loud on The Week this morning. damookster - 31/05/2021 12:43:29 AM 503 Views
Re: Jon Karl says the quiet part out loud on The Week this morning. Vodalus - 31/05/2021 02:36:21 AM 440 Views
The CCP virus works just fine for me. damookster - 31/05/2021 03:10:26 AM 343 Views
Yes, it's racist to call it the China virus. Wtf fionwe1987 - 01/06/2021 07:59:45 PM 362 Views
half kidding, half serious damookster - 01/06/2021 10:30:31 PM 371 Views
I think you're looking at/focusing on the wrong distaste fionwe1987 - 02/06/2021 04:10:28 PM 420 Views
yes it always comes down to money, doesn't it? damookster - 02/06/2021 07:19:36 PM 389 Views
Yes. And that continues to be unacceptable. fionwe1987 - 02/06/2021 10:30:14 PM 365 Views
What happens if the CCP is not held accountable? Roland00 - 02/06/2021 11:59:14 PM 379 Views
What happens? Business as usual. *NM* damookster - 03/06/2021 12:37:33 AM 180 Views
Yep Roland00 - 03/06/2021 01:34:53 AM 358 Views
another thing... damookster - 01/06/2021 10:40:12 PM 360 Views
They're now introducing a system with Greek letters - that variant is now the Delta variant. *NM* Legolas - 02/06/2021 12:15:24 PM 167 Views
Yeah that is something new that happened this week that should have happened months ago. *NM* Roland00 - 03/06/2021 12:01:21 AM 173 Views
The location of the rise of a variant serves no scientific purpose in it's naming fionwe1987 - 02/06/2021 04:12:04 PM 329 Views
too bad damookster - 02/06/2021 06:39:15 PM 339 Views
Re: The location of the rise of a variant serves no scientific purpose in it's naming aerocontrols - 04/06/2021 03:26:04 PM 476 Views
2015 WHO Issues best practices for naming new human infectious diseases, aka not new Roland00 - 04/06/2021 07:27:33 PM 321 Views
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