protagonist_future, 10 months ago to random

"Another athlete mysteriously died... was it the #vaccine?" - you might have seen this before.

Media #manipulators constantly hunt for unexplained anomalies they can leverage for furthering their self-serving narratives.

This works because our brains do not deal well with #uncertainty; we tend to overfit unexplained datapoints into stories offered by others.

However, anomalies (fake or real) are just exceptional #anecdotes and almost always irrelevant to a #scientific #consensus on a topic.

cazabon, 1 year ago to science

I'm getting #tired of #people responding to my "here's the #situation here today, and how the #engineering works out for this #problem" with #hopes and #dreams about how they wish the world was, or #anecdotes about how that problem doesn't exist where they are (which is utterly unlike here) so it doesn't matter.

It's a "strong #misanthropic #principle kind of day, I guess.

Hint: if my #question includes #math, and your #answer doesn't, it's not an answer. 😂