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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 975 Views
Why is this important? Earnestly I am asking *NM* Roland00 - 27/05/2021 07:40:36 PM 231 Views
From the same NYT email: damookster - 27/05/2021 08:34:25 PM 498 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 255 Views
Well... entyti - 28/05/2021 09:54:01 PM 508 Views
Wow you are putting words into my mouth *NM* Roland00 - 29/05/2021 07:40:22 PM 208 Views
Nonsense.. I put your words in my mouth... entyti - 30/05/2021 05:57:53 AM 440 Views
I try to avoid if/then reasoning damookster - 29/05/2021 08:59:37 PM 481 Views
Agreed: Probably just most of it Roland00 - 29/05/2021 09:10:43 PM 459 Views
It is 44F and raining in Connecticut damookster - 29/05/2021 10:25:20 PM 443 Views
It has been raining for almost two weeks in Houston Roland00 - 29/05/2021 11:16:20 PM 478 Views
80s and sunny in New Orleans aerocontrols - 30/05/2021 05:26:05 AM 434 Views
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Ivermectin? aerocontrols - 29/05/2021 10:35:00 PM 453 Views
Re: Ivermectin? entyti - 30/05/2021 07:00:42 AM 451 Views
Ivermectin is the active ingredient in heartworm medicine aerocontrols - 30/05/2021 02:45:19 PM 483 Views
Are you saying LiterateDog is super-human? *NM* Roland00 - 30/05/2021 04:09:45 PM 213 Views
Surely not aerocontrols - 30/05/2021 07:31:49 PM 426 Views
Also, according to Donny my dog... aerocontrols - 30/05/2021 08:32:11 PM 500 Views
Link to a paper written in February 2020 damookster - 29/05/2021 12:16:34 AM 608 Views
Jon Karl says the quiet part out loud on The Week this morning. damookster - 31/05/2021 12:43:29 AM 615 Views
Re: Jon Karl says the quiet part out loud on The Week this morning. Vodalus - 31/05/2021 02:36:21 AM 552 Views
The CCP virus works just fine for me. damookster - 31/05/2021 03:10:26 AM 435 Views
Yes, it's racist to call it the China virus. Wtf fionwe1987 - 01/06/2021 07:59:45 PM 447 Views
half kidding, half serious damookster - 01/06/2021 10:30:31 PM 456 Views
I think you're looking at/focusing on the wrong distaste fionwe1987 - 02/06/2021 04:10:28 PM 513 Views
yes it always comes down to money, doesn't it? damookster - 02/06/2021 07:19:36 PM 477 Views
Yes. And that continues to be unacceptable. fionwe1987 - 02/06/2021 10:30:14 PM 448 Views
What happens if the CCP is not held accountable? Roland00 - 02/06/2021 11:59:14 PM 462 Views
What happens? Business as usual. *NM* damookster - 03/06/2021 12:37:33 AM 212 Views
Yep Roland00 - 03/06/2021 01:34:53 AM 435 Views
another thing... damookster - 01/06/2021 10:40:12 PM 446 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 202 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 210 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 415 Views
too bad damookster - 02/06/2021 06:39:15 PM 432 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 571 Views
2015 WHO Issues best practices for naming new human infectious diseases, aka not new Roland00 - 04/06/2021 07:27:33 PM 403 Views
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