I found this interesting: "The science might suggest that in matters of hate crimes—if society insists on focusing on the race and ethnicity of the attacker and knows the motive—it should then compare relative percentages of the population to determine who is inordinately, or not inordinately, committing such crimes."
The left definitely does not want to do this math.
[Science] == [whatever helps the left promote its agenda]
Political ‘science’, that is.
Political ‘science’, that is.
“while targeted wearing of masks and social distancing and quarantining of vulnerable populations are necessary”
Nice piece, however, I take issue with Hanson in his statement above. I think we can also follow the science (ie. data) to show that the wearing of masks has had little effect in slowing the virus. States without mask mandates have fared as well as those which had them. They are mildly effective at stopping the virus, but very effective in turning people against each other. That was also one of the desires of the left.
The Lefties follow the science fiction. They are big fans.
It is not the "Science"; it's The Science™.
Nearly all of the strident appeals to Science in the media come from people with journalism degrees who wouldn't recognize scientific methodology if they tripped over it. These are, on the contrary, thinly-veiled appeals to authority (the left is particularly fond of authority) onto which they have conferred godhead. Damn the data, up the narrative!
This doesn't work in science. As Richard Feynman said,
If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are who made the guess, or what his name is… If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.
Hence the most basic requirement of peer review: show me the raw, unfiltered, untweaked data and describe your statistical methodology. Or give up on "Science".
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Those who follow the science do not quarantine healthy people.
This guy is the best