Thank you! I agree that there’s a huge difference between deceit and a rare honest mistake. If there’s an H5N1 breakout, info from people like you will be of critical importance, especially since “info” from the incoming administration, like last time, is likely to be a mixed bag. Sigh.
There is being wrong and there is being negligent and there is being deceitful. Negligent and deceitful "wrongness" are characterised by the decision maker being unreasonable or reckless in arriving at the conclusion deceitful in having an element of purposefully misleading. The trouble with Trump and his followers is they fall into the negligent or deceitful categories of being wrong. The best example being the Great Orange Old Man's attempt to have millions inject bleach into themselves. Trying to treat these types of wrongdoers by ordinary principles is neither necessary or indeed prudent.
There's wrong and then there's breaking the laws of Maths wrong. i.e Whitty, Vallance, most of the media, politicians, researchers, etc.
Anyone who says that an epidemic grows exponentially should be asked what happens and when to move a finite variable off of a curve to infinity. Alternatively Occam's Razor says it was never on that curve and Dr Farr's 1840 paper concurs.
Thank you! I agree that there’s a huge difference between deceit and a rare honest mistake. If there’s an H5N1 breakout, info from people like you will be of critical importance, especially since “info” from the incoming administration, like last time, is likely to be a mixed bag. Sigh.
This is so applicable these days especially here in North America! Thank you Adam!
So true! Thank you for this.
There is being wrong and there is being negligent and there is being deceitful. Negligent and deceitful "wrongness" are characterised by the decision maker being unreasonable or reckless in arriving at the conclusion deceitful in having an element of purposefully misleading. The trouble with Trump and his followers is they fall into the negligent or deceitful categories of being wrong. The best example being the Great Orange Old Man's attempt to have millions inject bleach into themselves. Trying to treat these types of wrongdoers by ordinary principles is neither necessary or indeed prudent.
There's wrong and then there's breaking the laws of Maths wrong. i.e Whitty, Vallance, most of the media, politicians, researchers, etc.
Anyone who says that an epidemic grows exponentially should be asked what happens and when to move a finite variable off of a curve to infinity. Alternatively Occam's Razor says it was never on that curve and Dr Farr's 1840 paper concurs.