TigerDoc

Indeed and main character syndrome is right. This baw, Pillow-man, and Candace could cook up some mighty fine CT's together.

I think a recurring problem of political discourse is our civics haven't absorbed a reasonable ethic of discussing conspiracies, so it descends into whataboutism like this. An alternative might be trying to distinguish conspiracies from conspiracy theories from conspiracism (conspiracies happen; conspiracy theories can be right or wrong; conspiracism is a worldview that overuses conspiratorial explanations at the expense of more likely causes of events).

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First term Trump was a phenomenal president. Second term Trump is a gigantic sack of shite.

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He's mostly the same and most of the difference is he had lots of people checking his worst impulses last time, but he's now surrounded only by enablers.

Interesting post. This LTV vs. surplus idea is interesting with respect to discussion culture (e.g. w/politics). Most people including myself don't know lots of economics, but we nevertheless acquire folk understandings that trickle down from trends in formal economic thinking and so we swim in water with relatively few structural accounts (doesn't have to be LTV), creating this space where our at-hand explanations for events tend to be agential (e.g. great man history, conspiracism, etc.), which isn't to say agents aren't highly consequential, but it skews things away from the systemic or random. Of course ironically you can come up with plenty of CT's for that trend. :lol:

They weren't a myth, but why the idea of liberty became a political force in the enlightenment (e.g. you don't really find it in the medievals) invites explanation.

ah, you must've seen Dos Mil Mulas. :lol:

He shouldn't just vaguely gesture at case reports, though, right? He should actually publish the data like was done when the J&J vaccine was pulled from the market for much less than this.

Yeah, he's old and he fears diseases that are dangerous to old people as he should.

He doesn't promote the vaccine anymore, though, because he doesn't want to upset his base who accept its dangerousness as an identity-badge.

Why do you think Trump gets vaccinated for covid every year?

People aren't wrong to be skeptical of pharma, but they have little awareness that the wellness industry is much bigger and has no guardrails, no professional bodies, no regulators, no ethical codes, no boards. Almost nada keeping them from making any wild-arse claim.

People accept it as folk wisdom, not as critical readers of scientific literature.