<div dir="ltr">Steve, you waded in further than I did. I stopped when it was about to go over the tops of my boots :-) </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:50 PM Steven A Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> The worst conspiracy theory I've seen is this TL;DR, which uses TL;DR as a *weapon* to blind the audience with "science":<br>
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> <a href="https://project-evidence.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://project-evidence.github.io/</a><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/Project-Evidence/project-evidence.github.io" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/Project-Evidence/project-evidence.github.io</a><br>
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> I'd be curious if anyone in this forum prioritizes that as something to slog through. 8^) It's pretty funny that, when their name "Project E.P.S.T.E.I.N." was too strong of a hint to demonstrate they were bullshitters, they changed their name to seem less conspiratorial.<br>
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I definitely made a good run at slogging through but only slogged in<br>
until I was over my head which was pretty quick. <br>
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The E.P.S.T.E.I.N. thing is a strange tangent... I don't know how to<br>
decode "backronym"... <br>
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I also felt they were bending *way* over backwards to claim absolute<br>
neutrality... I could measure that as a "doth protest too much" I suppose.<br>
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You probably have a lot more practice reading stuff like this. I feel<br>
blessed that *most* conspiracy-whackadoodle-doodle has grammatical and<br>
style hints (like listening to/watching Alex Jones froth) plastered all<br>
over it. <br>
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This is obviously more refined/subtle than that.<br>
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The lengthiness does seem to hint at trying to exhaust the reader with<br>
sheer volume. <br>
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Do you have a more elaborate analysis of what you think they are up to? <br>
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- Steve<br>
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> On 4/20/20 11:03 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>
>> With HIV there are people that can control the virus and have immunity for practical purposes. [1] Whether or not there are co-morbidities, if one has a strong signal like B*5701 for HIV, it should come out in the statistical wash. Not everyone with a particular HLA will have the same co-morbidity. Anyway, back to the whackadoodle topic: If that is the case, and one had a detailed knowledge of the genetics (e.g. ethnicity) of a target population, one could design a virus to hurt some more than others. But if one is a fascist, it is very easy as you point out: You make everyone sick and the people with health care or he means to stay isolated will tend to survive. I'm not saying that is the case here, I'm just saying maybe it isn't actually impossible. <br>
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