There is a huge range of quackery in medicine, and the 1970s claim that apricot pits cure cancer, or there is some compound extracted from them, persists to this day. It is similar and bigger than the quasi-physics that plagues the web. I tend to consider the source for claims and whether the claim is indeed a zombie. I am not sure if hydroxychloriquine is a zombie treatment for Covid, but it appears to be heading that way. The problem with zombies, is they can be killed, but they come back. It is a bit like shooting ducks in a carnival shooting gallery; they can be shot, but they pop back up. A person who promotes zombie science, such as Fred Singer who denies CO2 warming, just cannot be taken seriously. After somebody has demonstrated a history of this sort of thing you just ignore them.
LC On Friday, July 31, 2020 at 9:21:27 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 9:19 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > > it is invalid to say that A is false because P asserts it > > > There is more to intelligence than just deduction, there is also induction > which is at least as powerful. If everything P has asserted in the past has > been shown to be false and now P asserts A then you can conclude that A is > probably, although not certainly, also false. That's why most intelligent > people wouldn't accept medical advice from somebody who in the past has > asserted that vaccines are made from space alien sperm to make people less > religious, and ovarian cysts are caused by woman dreaming about having > sex with deamons. But Trump is fine with taking such advice because Trump > is not intelligent. > > John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/11925d39-763d-4c8c-a621-cdc9b0aec4d5n%40googlegroups.com.
