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Gotta give him some respect for admitting he was wrong, and doing so several times. Everyone is wrong from time to time, but barely anyone can openly admit it.
99% of doing science is being wrong and being happy about it
99% of the time, I make up statistics
But do you put work into the fake?
I like to invent P-values and fabricate not only participants, but their consent waivers. I sprinkle around terms like Tasseled Cap, Eigenvector, ANOVA, MLR, Covariance Matrices, etc.
Some people make up stuff because they’re lazy. When my lies are complete, it would have been just as easy to do the actual work because I’m in it for the love of the game.
I do what most people say when they say “99%”. It’s still bullshitting. 🙃
I love this, I’m framing it somewhere
And also add to that that this is more like escaping from a cult than it is merely admitting you were silly and wrong.
Isn’t there a documentary flat earthers filmed in which they debunked their own beliefs?
Beyond the Curve! Great doc.
I would also highly recommend folding ideas "in search of a flat earth."
It covers the actual flat earth claims in depth, but is very much about the culture, and why that culture exists.
It’s a really good documentary because a lot of them actually want to be scientific about it.
But instead of following the scientific process of test->observe->draw a conclusion, they start with the conclusion and look for a way to prove it. And when the prof isn’t there, they simply say the test was flawed, and move on to the next test that will prove it.
It’s sad in a way. I don’t think, most of them anyway, are con man. They’re just misguided.
I will say, starting with a conclusion/theory is fine, but the next step is to do everything you can to disprove it. The more you and other fail, the stronger it becomes
You can tell their intelligence rises over the course of the series because they go from portrait to landscape videos.
We need more people like that in the world
Over just a few months makes me think it’s fake. But who knows. Things actually do happen.
What about the other, the subtle cons, like we don’t have to take immediate action against global warming? (Not mentioning the more controversial ones.)
Imagine what the world would be like if the con artists pulling this stuff were pushing people to build libraries and educate kids.
I wonder what Chinese flat earthers be like:
A: 地球是平的 (地球 is flat)
B: 但是你刚刚说了“地球” (but you just said “地球”) (地球 literally translates to: “ball of dirt” xD)
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In general, we’re not taught early enough, if at all, to question both what we ‘perceive’ and the mental blabbering that makes up stories about it.
Ain’t no Planet X coming cause ain’t no space cause ain’t no globe earth.
6 stages of denial.
