Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2/MYTHS BY CRANKS a- "Masks are not effective" (using "sounds scientific" biology argument) b- Measures carry economic costs: no, it's the VIRUS that's costly [See debate w/Ioannidis]. c- "Death numbers are low" w/o realizing it is BECAUSE of measures. https://t.co/io2eVXxznw — PolitiTweet.org

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Friends, there is a mob of "COVID is not serious" (even hoax) politicized attack dogs w/no notion of science nor interest in it who tag to the very few play-the-system risk-clueless academics like @BallouxFrancois carrying THE msg that fits them. Any other compromised academic? — PolitiTweet.org

This is an extremely INSTRUCTIVE thread. 1) Balloux makes statistical errors 2) Taleb points them out, calls him na… https://t.co/rfw7hcmUWn

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@Roshan_Karia @BallouxFrancois Balloux has NO idea how to calculate risk, but not my point here: he give fodder to a crowd of crackpots. — PolitiTweet.org

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