[FRIAM] whackadoodles go mainstream!

[Gary Schiltz]

Steve, you waded in further than I did. I stopped when it was about to go
over the tops of my boots :-)

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:50 PM Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

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