thomasjbevan

Thanks. I managed to see it as something of a blessing in disguise in the end but it took me a while to get there! Hahaha. Thanks for reading.

Interoperability is a dying concept sadly.

They say the devils greatest trick was making humanity believe he didn’t exists.

And advertisers greatest trick is making you think that ads don’t work on you.

We like to think we are above it all (I know I do) but why do I drink one brand of vodka as opposed to another. Objectively they are all identical. Clearly at some point some piece of branding breached my defences, you know?

YouTube refs are great for music, but awful for any kind of ‘content’

Thanks for this.

There is more than a hint of ‘They Live’ about the whole thing.

Yeah, how Musk is generally a hero in the popular imagination of the internet rather than a Bond Villain is beyond me...

Sadly it does bring to mind Pandora and her box.

Everything vaccine/ Covid related I get from the BMJ. Which seem more reputable and data-driven than most, and also more sceptical of the beliefs that the average ‘trust the science’ social media advocate takes as being gospel.

I’d also recommend Dr Malcolm Kendrick and Dr Sebastien Rushworth, in this vein also FWIW.

But what do I know? I’m just another stranger on the Internet.

Which is a great shame as I found the article itself to be very balanced and well written.

But just as Scientism has become a religion, so has anti-expertise (whether legitimate or not) become a countervailing, and as you say, equally as dangerous movement.

I have no idea what the solution is...

‘New research found that reduced food intake in roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans) has a detrimental effect on three generations of offspring’

And therefore IF is a bad idea?

Good old medical study journalism, hey?