Ah these are the dudes with the unbelievably cringe Reddit dating history.
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[Grace's] grandfather, a British scientist at GlaxoSmithKline, found that poppy seeds yielded less opium when they grew in the English rain, so he set up an industrial poppy farm in sunny Australia and brought his family there.
To grow opium???
(OK I guess for medicinal purposes but maybe point that out)
Thanks for the link, I figured as much.
I decided there was no point in engaging the person in polemic on this matter (it's the kind of forum where that kind of behavior will just get the comment deleted) so decided to just add the person to my (literal) shitlist, only to discover they're already on it! Correlation or causation something something.
Jacobin is proof that being Terminally Online is its own fucking ideology.
Every day I learn something new and terrible, thanks internet.
OK my knowledge of Bayes is rusty at best, but isn't the idea that the occurrences should be relatively common, and/or not correlated?
So far, there has been zero or one[1] lab leak that led to a world-wide pandemic. Before COVID, I doubt anyone was even thinking about the probabilities of a lab leak leading to a worldwide pandemic.
Also, ideally, if there was a lab leak, then people running labs would take note and ensure that that particular failure mode doesn't happen again. Thus the probability of an occurrence would be less than the first time it happened, because people actually take note of what has happened and change stuff.
Scottyboy could have used something that has occurred multiple times, like a nuclear powerplant accident, but his audience loves nuclear power, so that's a non-starter. Also it's a given that the mainstream press is the big bad in the fight against nuclear, just because serious accidents with widespread death and economic destruction happen again and again with nuclear power.
Raising the lab leak "hypothesis" is just signalling to his base.
[1] depending on where you stand in current US politics
I remember this... wasn't this on old Sneerclub?
I think the consensus was, you still need to brush your teeth to avoid gingivitis, which is at least as big a deal for dental health as caries.
It's sad when people pretend to have read some great piece of literature (like War and Peace), but at least it's understandable from a social perspective - the pretender wishes to conform to an ideal of a cultivated person.
It's hard to say if it's sadder or just more pathetic to pretend to have read a piece of dreck like HPMOR.
A variant of this organism was first created in 1985, and volunteers deliberately inoculated themselves with the modified strain. This has, to our knowledge, caused no ill effects since.
Who needs the FDA when you have vague hunches?
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