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I'm a fan of what I've started calling "harder data". Data that is harder than average to misrepresent, mis-filter, or game. As I mentioned in a thread about this over

I heard that Youtube (owned by Google/Alphabet) took down a video of Florida Gov DeSantis hosting a round-table retro on covid-19 with Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and others. That interested

Folks, censorship/deplatforming/suppression-of-alternative-viewpoints/"thought-suppression" is *already* rapidly metastasizing. https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1277667936782573568 https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/127761

The pseudoscientists who have dominated nutrition and food policy for half a century are pushing to take it to another level. They've been so successful that if you're a smart,

I think that a lot of people, during a time of crisis, when they feel scared, have a negative emotional response to someone questioning the dominant narrative — they get

Really encouraging! Good evidence and argumentation that a lot of us — maybe up to 10 million of us — have already had covid-19, recovered, and are now immune! Which

Dec 31: Taiwan public health officials warn WHO of potential human-to-human transmission of the new coronavirus: https://amp.ft.com/content/2a70a02a-644a-11ea-a6cd-df28cc3c6a68. Taiwan mobilizes its national health emergency office. Jan 14: WHO helps