123 Oops, turns out the ice in Antarctica is “slowly growing” not shrinking (twitter.com) posted 4 days ago by Ahaus667 4 days ago by Ahaus667 +125 / -2 35 comments share 35 comments share save hide report block hide replies
With 4 parameters you can fit an elephant, with 5 you can make it wiggle it's trunk. With 5 billion you can make anything say anything.
There's a fun demonstration of this for Ptolemy's epicycles on YouTube. His model can describe the movement of the planets from a geocentric frame of reference, but with enough epicycles it can describe any orbit no matter how contrived.