Many of you will already have heard of Nate Silver. He is an “American statistician, writer and poker player who analyses baseball, basketball and elections. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and held the position of Editor-in-Chief there, along with being a special correspondent for ABC News, until May 2023.
According to Wikipedia, “Silver was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time in 2009… Much of Silver’s approach can be characterised by using probabilistic and statistical modelling to try and understand complex social systems, such as professional sports, the popularity of political platforms and elections”.
However, you probably haven’t heard of Sander van der Linden. He is introduced on Wikipedia as “a Dutch social psychologist and author who is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He studies the psychology of social influence, risk, human judgment and decision-making. He is particularly known for his research on the psychology of social issues, such as fake news, COVID-19 and climate change”.
I started following Van der Linden after reading about a couple of his lectures at Cambridge University. Not only does Van der Linden want to stop misinformation (which I’m sure we all want), he wants to go further and actually ‘protect’ people from it via ‘inoculation’. Inoculating people to misinformation involves exposing them to weakened doses of fake news and then telling them which bits were fake. This apparently produces future psychological resistance.
The duo’s X/Twitter spat began when Van der Linden excitedly tweeted that the World Economic Forum ranks misinformation and disinformation as the number one societal risk in the next two years.
Even Elon Musk laughed at this, saying “by ‘misinformation’, WEF means anything that conflicts with its agenda”. To this, Van der Linden called Musk the “Chief Conspiracy Theorist”.
Nate Silver responded to Van der Linden’s post and I present their argument to you below:
Van der Linden then turned his attention to Professor Jay Bhattacharya from the Stanford School of Medicine and co-founder of the Great Barrington Declaration, after Bhattacharya tweeted the following:
Unsurprisingly, after the reaction Van der Linden received to his ‘fight’ with Silver, he has turned comments off on his response to Bhattacharya.
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“PM confirmed that Covid contingency measures exist for the autumn/winter”.
Freedom my arse. Don’t these crooks understand we cannot carry on with life as normal while these threats hang over us?
“Healthy 13 year old dies after getting ‘jab’ “.
I hope they will tell them about that in these primary schools too (” ‘Wow what a year’ vaccine propaganda in primary school”).
Lockdown is only on ‘pause’. It will only end when the bogus ‘Public Health Emergency’ is acknowledged. We have safe, effective and cheap treatments for covid-19 now and the emergency is no longer legal. Neither was it legal to start with, because covid-19 had just been removed from the list of ‘High Consequence Infections’. Add to this the fraud of faulty mass PCR tests and coerced jabs, the whole corrupt edifice must collapse under legal scrutiny..
Push back against medical tyranny…
A sign of the times…..
British Tennis sensation 18 year old Emma Raducanu retires from Wimbledon with on court breathing difficulties.
What is the first thing the on court doctor does?
Tells her to put a mask on. Well, stuff my old boots…….
And the medical profession hopes for our confidence……….?
Wow. Bit like the “current” first aid advice which is to BLOCK the patient’s airway when when performing CPR, as demonstrated and recommended by the good tv doctor, Shillary Jones.
I so hate him smug shill cunt
Has anybody asked the professor of psychology why people believe masks are helping others when actually it says “I believe I’m infectious but I was too selfish to stay in bed”
What’s the mindset behind the Niqab of the Self-centred?
Spot on.
The only explanation for their totally senseless behaviour is, that they now do actually also believe that wearing an unsuited, mishandled and dirty piece of cloth actually protects themself too.
That, or it’s solely down to virtue signalling and identifying as a cult member hereby now.
Same with the jabs, of course: instead of sticking to what they say on the label, that they might protect yourself a bit better, they have swallowed the big propaganda lie solely sown to create division, increase uptake and establish the apartheid, that taking them also protects others, and that as such not taking them must endanger others.
In both cases, you cannot reason with fanatics, least of all if they have an IQ below 50, as it surely must be the case now with those 2 factions.
Some of us will NOT be returning to medical house arrest.
I think some anti-lockdown business owners should take measures to extremes, like ban anyone who has AIDS etc.
The news report of the headteacher backs up a rumour going around. Seems kids are doing the OJ trick so the family can get away on a cheap break, before the prices rise.
It’s clear the ATL compilers don’t read the articles they link to. The apparently anti-Turdgeon piece is actually castigating the goblin witch for not locking the Scots up tightly enough.
I picked up on Pfeffel hinting at another lockdown in autumn during yesterday’s ‘briefing’. While people on here were singing and dancing with joy that we’re supposedly coming out of lockdown, I was in no doubt that the fake freedom day where businesses take over administering the ‘rules’, that we’re simply transitioning from one lockdown to another.
How long ago was it Pfeffel last said that the easing of lockdown is irreversible?
”Lawyer Adam Wagner suggested firms are likely to retain mask mandates and social distancing measures ”
This is how they outsource the controls. Its very similar to the way ‘climate change’ has been forced through, by getting insurance companies to include relevant clauses in all policies. Once that is done it takes a very brave ( or foolhardy) company to do something which leaves them open to no insurance cover.
You don’t need constant government edicts, the ‘system’ incorporates the restraints.
Beth Rigby, who has infamy for breaking all the rules with her colleagues for Kay Burley’s 50th birthday party during peak lockdown and being one of few journalists that sounded almost opposed to lockdown, showed yesterday during the presidential-style briefing that she is fully on board with the pro-lockdown fanatics when she described ‘freedom day’ as the “big bang”.
She was in full scare-mongering mode, calling Pfeffel irresponsible for lifting “all” restrictions, claiming doing so will cause an explosion of positive cases. Interestingly, Pfeffel will always comment to Beth that she knows he has respect for her.
Why the covi-comatose public can’t see that this is theatre is beyond me.
“Asking vaccinated New Yorker’s why they’re wearing masks outside” –
Unbelievable video.
This is what susposedly educated human beings have become; frightened, illogical, virtue signalling husks of their previous selves.
God knows what all these people’s ancestors would make of them; people who in all probability faced hunger, war, REAL disease, predudice, and a whole host of other hardships that would put this false pandemic in it’s proper context.
I’m astonished these people can look at themselves in the mirror each morning.
News out of Germany that many people do not turn up for 2nd injection.
According to the NDR, this has several reasons. The date for the 2nd is created by the computer system. Some people want to bring it forward, so just register for a new 1st date.
Some people will have trouble cancelling it, or are too ill (or dead) to go through the complicated system to cancel the 2nd. Some people now can get it at their GP, and do not cancel with the central system. Some people had such a bad experience they do not want a 2nd dose.
Authorities are now scratching their heads what to do with the refuseniks and time wasters. Apparently they have a database (civil servants) of people to rush to the vaxx centres at the end of the day to get rid of the drugs.
It kind of tickles my bone, that the efficient Germans can NOT get this sorted!
Dingwall on face masks.Best wrtiten twitterthread for a long time.Recommended
https://twitter.com/rwjdingwall/status/1412330359996432387
I loved that video from NY asking people why they still wear masks. The interviewer said to the: What’s your thought process? (what arguments were so convincing for you to conclude to keep wearing a mask?)
A lot of people could not answer and brabbled something. Obviously there was no considered thought process.
The Dan Astin Gregory interview with Dr McCullough is not on there – any other links?
BBC R2 (don’t ask!). Some Covidiot parent gets in touch to cheer that their child has received it’s jab. The response from the mindless host? ‘Excellent parenting skills!’. We are truly in deep sh1t!
As a committed socialist, I despair of the Labour Party and the trade unions with their wimpish, cowardly, pathetic attitude to restrictions being lifted.
It seems to me that they would rather live forever on their knees than try and stand on their feet.