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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Wizards, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>God knows the general public HAS to know what science actually is. I am wondering, is <i>primum non nocere </i>a principle in science, as well as medicine? If not, then <i>caveat emptor </i>should be. But how do we “emptors” decide? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>N<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clark University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roger Critchlow<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 7, 2020 6:44 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Meanwhile, back on the troll farms<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Looks like a concerted effort to discredit the ICL Covid simulation for lack of adequate unit testing, all in a github issue:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <a href="https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165">https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/165</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Oh, of course, retract all policies based on it, too. via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/">https://news.ycombinator.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- rec --<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>