Still hate the journos more though, because they're trying to label a bunch of economists and zero career, single issue shills writing a pre-approval article for an agenda driven NGO as "a scientists' study"
Not that there aren't plenty of actual scientists who are shills for nonsense too, but I like to at least credit and acknowledge people who can actually carry out real experimental work as a different class than the useless fucks being paraded about here.
The only good study to come out at the height of the pandemic was by NBER because, for all their faults, properly trained economists can actually perform statistics. They concluded that masking didn't do a damn thing. It wasn't complicated to suss out: they looked at the rates of change vs overall case numbers. This is basic shit, but the average PhD is mathematically inept in ways that are shocking.
You need to hate these scientists too. This shit study will probably be used to prove the experts were right
Yeah, I hate the people who wrote that study too.
Still hate the journos more though, because they're trying to label a bunch of economists and zero career, single issue shills writing a pre-approval article for an agenda driven NGO as "a scientists' study"
Not that there aren't plenty of actual scientists who are shills for nonsense too, but I like to at least credit and acknowledge people who can actually carry out real experimental work as a different class than the useless fucks being paraded about here.
The only good study to come out at the height of the pandemic was by NBER because, for all their faults, properly trained economists can actually perform statistics. They concluded that masking didn't do a damn thing. It wasn't complicated to suss out: they looked at the rates of change vs overall case numbers. This is basic shit, but the average PhD is mathematically inept in ways that are shocking.