[FRIAM] whackadoodles go mainstream!

[Steven A Smith]

> The worst conspiracy theory I've seen is this TL;DR, which uses TL;DR as a *weapon* to blind the audience with "science":
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>   https://project-evidence.github.io/
>   https://github.com/Project-Evidence/project-evidence.github.io
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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.

I definitely made a good run at slogging through but only slogged in
until I was over my head which was pretty quick.  

The E.P.S.T.E.I.N. thing is a strange tangent...   I don't know how to
decode "backronym"...  

I also felt they were bending *way* over backwards to claim absolute
neutrality...  I could measure that as a "doth protest too much" I suppose.

You probably have a lot more practice reading stuff like this.   I feel
blessed that *most* conspiracy-whackadoodle-doodle has grammatical and
style hints (like listening to/watching Alex Jones froth) plastered all
over it.  

This is obviously more refined/subtle than that.

The lengthiness does seem to hint at trying to exhaust the reader with
sheer volume.  

Do you have a more elaborate analysis of what you think they are up to? 

- Steve

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> On 4/20/20 11:03 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> 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.  
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