I was interviewed by Tom Nelson the other day on the subject of fixing broken science.
You can also listen at Spotify, YouTube, Google, Rumble, and a bunch of other places, all listed on Tom’s site.
I emphasized that it is too easy, as regular readers know, of finding “significant” results, and that there are too many scientists with too much money finding too many false things. Thie leads to broken science.
Here’s a prime example of what I mean: there is a new paper out claiming that vaccine “hesitancy” explains car crashes. Yes. Really. Those who didn’t want to have the vex had more car crashes.
Say Experts like these:
So @CTVNews actually put that ridiculous study linking unvaccinated to more traffic accidents on the news. The guy who did the study is featured, at the end he wonders if insurance companies should give 5% discounts for drivers with proof of vax. I can’t believe this is real life pic.twitter.com/3JwY8gMeW7
— Ryan Gerritsen???? (@ryangerritsen) December 14, 2022
I show why this claim is asinine—and it is idiotic on its face—in this thread:
Yes, that new "study" which claims "COVID vaccine hesitancy associated with increased traffic crash risk" is asinine.
Here's why.
Here's the propaganda (paper is linked within): https://t.co/kh8p7ye7R3
— William M Briggs – Statistician to the Stars! (@FamedCelebrity) December 13, 2022
My conclusion: “This silly study should show you how easy it is for smart people to go wrong. They excel at discovering evidence which confirms their theories, but they stink, like the rest of us, at finding contradictory evidence.”
Incidentally, before Musk bought Twitter, all my tweets sadly died of coronadoom after one week. This medical necessity was forced upon me after I landed in Twitter jail thrice, and was to avoid cancellation.
Since the woke still gain ascendency everywhere else, there thus remains the possibility that this thread will die of some dread disease in the future. So screen shot whatever you wish to save.
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“They excel at discovering evidence which confirms their theories, but they stink, like the rest of us, at finding contradictory evidence.”
Or, as Richard Feynman once said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
“This silly study should show you how easy it is for smart people to go wrong.”
I agree with all Briggs says about this idiotic study, except I don’t care what degree that clown has, or where it’s from, he is not smart.
The media people reporting this are generally the pretty party people from highschool – now desperate to show that they are every bit as smart the nerds they despised then. Combine their willfull ignorance with the editorial maximum that it leads if it bleeds and.. what you see is what you get.
Speaking of studies… THE SCIENCE(tm) declares that the unvexxed cause MORE traffic accidents!
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/new-study-claims-unvaccinated-canadians-are-a-traffic-risk/
This is why Klaus is taking our cars away from us…
^ Whoops, meant to post that in Otto Mobile’s talk back. But Briggs is already ahead of me! How embarrassing… It must be because I’m unvexxed! You make more mistakes if you’re unvexxed, future studies show… Government will make sure everyone lives just long enough to regret your mistakes!
Hey Briggs, listen to the podcast with Nelson after yours, where he interviews Corsi. It’s just simply brilliant.
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