[FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Dear Wizards, 

 

Could somebody take a moment to explain this revelation to the “citizens” on the list, all one of me, so I won’t be completely out of it tomorrow morning at the Zoom meeting?  Which of the things I have had faith in is downstream of this corrupt code.  I assume this is all open source?  What exactly IS the policing mechanism in open source.  Darwinian? Reputational?  Does this HAVE to provoke a crisis of confidence in the general public?  Or could it be seen as a heroic thrown-together first step that is now being improved?  Inquiring “citizens” want to know. 

 

God knows the general public HAS to know what science actually is.  I am wondering, is primum non nocere a principle in science, as well as medicine?  If not, then caveat emptor should be.  But how do we “emptors” decide?  

 

N

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

 <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:44 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms

 

Looks like a concerted effort to discredit the ICL Covid simulation for lack of adequate unit testing, all in a github issue:

 

  https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165

 

Oh, of course, retract all policies based on it, too.  via https://news.ycombinator.com/

 

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