Re: remember covid?

On 18/03/2025 6:10 am, john larkin wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:13:54 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 3/16/2025 10:26 AM, john larkin wrote:

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https://archive.is/CQzbl
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It's a click-bait title, she mostly just talks about what she wants to
talk about (seems to be catching the "I am being silenced"-bug as many
people with an audience of millions tend to) and uses weasel words like
"Some public health officials..." without actually naming names or
calling anyone specific out.
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Likely because the evidence "we were badly misled" doesn't amount to
much and so if she puts what she wants to say too late in the op ed
nobody's going to read that far.
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Soooo she's still an Ivy League academic. NYT is still the NYT

 "Trust the science" actually means "Trust the scientists" which is not
at all the same thing.

It doesn't. Scientists disagree quite a lot, and people trained in science are trained to read the literature and make up their own minds about the relative merits of what has been published.
John Larkin is notorious for trusting what the climate change denial propaganda machine has to say about the science involved.
The "scientists" who can be bribed to say what suits the climate change denial propaganda machine, aren't even vaguely trustworthy, and Anthony Watts - who John Larkin quotes a lot - hasn't even had any kind of scientific training.
The people who like to push that lab leakage theory about the origin of Covid-19 don't know much about science, but do have a political agenda.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney