The puzzle to me is that, hypothetically, if one were a scientist studying viruses or the immune system (or if one were a medical doctor), wouldn't covid have presented the most exciting, intellectually stimulating opportunity of one's career? Shouldn't scientists be falling over themselves to design studies to test the hypotheses they (or people who call themselves scientists) have been treating as incontrovertible truths? Where is the curiosity and desire to innovate?
thanks for this article! just some thoughts from an epistemologist here:
"There’s no way we know of (yet) to be able to experimentally distinguish between these various interpretations/approaches to QM."
But would that even be a possible task? I mean, any experiment would already have to be designed from a standpoint of this or that specific interpretation, or not?
I think one must be careful not to mistake the interpretation of a theory for something that has the status of a hypothesis and can be decided empirically. (I think we would otherwise jump into a higher order meta-theory which talks about the application of models while at the same time wanting to be empiricist. Probably not possible)
"These are just some of the hypotheses we have been treated to. They are NOT facts."
They are descriptions/statements of possible facts (hypotheses are in our minds, facts are out there in the world), and probably proven to be wrong. I am just saying this because as a philosopher I can not help but strive for conceptual and terminological precision.
Re Polio vs Covid comparison, Polio vax testing was much more rigorous than testing for Covid jabs e.g. 1.84 million subjects in Salk Polio vax tests vs <0.05 million in Pfizer Covid jabs tests. https://cmw.news/index.php?t=1636437256
Mr. Riggery Pokery, you write very well and are skilled at extracting very high signal to noise ratio information, with a touch of humor, from the digital cacophony with which we are all bombarded daily. Thank you for that. I am now a subscriber.
The problem with elephants is that they get bigger...and they are squashing us to death.
Very good description.
Excellent! We Germans have grown up with talking elephants, so we should understand: https://ibb.co/s2HWYZm
Ah, another gem. Thank you.
The puzzle to me is that, hypothetically, if one were a scientist studying viruses or the immune system (or if one were a medical doctor), wouldn't covid have presented the most exciting, intellectually stimulating opportunity of one's career? Shouldn't scientists be falling over themselves to design studies to test the hypotheses they (or people who call themselves scientists) have been treating as incontrovertible truths? Where is the curiosity and desire to innovate?
Thank you!
Getting infected with SARS-Cov-2 in a quarantine hotel: "spooky action at a distance".
thanks for this article! just some thoughts from an epistemologist here:
"There’s no way we know of (yet) to be able to experimentally distinguish between these various interpretations/approaches to QM."
But would that even be a possible task? I mean, any experiment would already have to be designed from a standpoint of this or that specific interpretation, or not?
I think one must be careful not to mistake the interpretation of a theory for something that has the status of a hypothesis and can be decided empirically. (I think we would otherwise jump into a higher order meta-theory which talks about the application of models while at the same time wanting to be empiricist. Probably not possible)
"These are just some of the hypotheses we have been treated to. They are NOT facts."
They are descriptions/statements of possible facts (hypotheses are in our minds, facts are out there in the world), and probably proven to be wrong. I am just saying this because as a philosopher I can not help but strive for conceptual and terminological precision.
When you live in a corporatocracy truth can be the enemy of a successful sales campaign.
Re Polio vs Covid comparison, Polio vax testing was much more rigorous than testing for Covid jabs e.g. 1.84 million subjects in Salk Polio vax tests vs <0.05 million in Pfizer Covid jabs tests. https://cmw.news/index.php?t=1636437256
Mr. Riggery Pokery, you write very well and are skilled at extracting very high signal to noise ratio information, with a touch of humor, from the digital cacophony with which we are all bombarded daily. Thank you for that. I am now a subscriber.
It's passed on from Empire to Empire. From Constantinople to Istanbul to Bath. And now to GAVI.
I liked the image of the elephant tea party so much that I quoted it on my (German and mostly unread) blog.