Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The point is not that masks or oudoors eliminate the risk of Covid for INDIVIDUALS, but that they REDUCE the probabilities with compounding effects for the COLLECTIVE. We are talking about a multiplicative effect that implodes when probabilities change. — PolitiTweet.org

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Maalouf wrote back with an exceprt from his book: “Ma conviction profonde, c’est que l’on accorde trop de poids à l’influence des religions sur les peuples, et pas assez à l’influence des peuples sur les religions.” — @nntaleb https://t.co/0gJKPhffO6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Notes 1-Jesus didn't "speak" either; Hebrew & Aramaic were languages for the learned. Pple spoke (as today) dialects; Jesus prob. spoke a Galilean one. 2-Netanyahu did not call Jesus by his Heb. name יהושע (Yehoshua) or ישוע, but by ישו "Yeshu" used to stress foreignness. — PolitiTweet.org

Netanyahu: Jesus spoke Hebrew. Pope Francis: Aramaic. Scholars: this is a false binary; ancient Palestine was a m… https://t.co/OEeCIt3zpS

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