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It should always be the standard for public institutions. Just because we are not perfect does not mean we should not strive for perfection.

by water8 4y ago

astrange 4y ago
This is the cause of why NIH/Fauci said untrue things about Covid; he can't say true things, because new true information is too surprising and you'd lose trust in him due to it changing too fast. Instead, he can only say things that "sound like what a trustworthy person would say", which is why they have to stick with medical dogma even when it's clearly expired.
- water8 4y ago
  No people dont trust fauci because of his absurd sense of entitlement and authority on something that is not knowable literally. You cannot unequivocally state that there will be no 10 year side effects for something that has not existed for 10 years. It is logically and physically impossible to make that statement and say it is a fact. Fauci confuses his opinion with the word fact. his hubris is why people don’t trust him.
  - astrange 4y ago
    > You cannot unequivocally state that there will be no 10 year side effects for something that has not existed for 10 years. Sure you can. Vaccines aren't computer programs and their side effects can't be programmed to happen after waiting 10 years; instead, they'd happen very rarely at shorter times and then become more likely to happen over time. So you can catch them by very carefully observing a smaller population. https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1467855689531940867 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1467855689531940867 I'm in a study with a silly name (HERO-TOGETHER) which basically means Google emails you every other month to ask if you've died yet. So far I haven't.
    - water8 4y ago
      - dang 4y ago
        Yikes, you can't post like this here. I've banned the account. Normally we give established accounts at least one warning before banning them, but your account has been breaking the site guidelines so badly and so frequently that it's far over the line. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It should always be the standard for public institutions. Just because we are not perfect does not mean we should not strive for perfection.

by water8 4y ago

It should always be the standard for public institutions. Just because we are not perfect does not mean we should not strive for perfection.

astrange 4y ago

This is the cause of why NIH/Fauci said untrue things about Covid; he can't say true things, because new true information is too surprising and you'd lose trust in him due to it changing too fast. Instead, he can only say things that "sound like what a trustworthy person would say", which is why they have to stick with medical dogma even when it's clearly expired.

water8 4y ago
No people dont trust fauci because of his absurd sense of entitlement and authority on something that is not knowable literally. You cannot unequivocally state that there will be no 10 year side effects for something that has not existed for 10 years. It is logically and physically impossible to make that statement and say it is a fact. Fauci confuses his opinion with the word fact. his hubris is why people don’t trust him.
- astrange 4y ago
  > You cannot unequivocally state that there will be no 10 year side effects for something that has not existed for 10 years. Sure you can. Vaccines aren't computer programs and their side effects can't be programmed to happen after waiting 10 years; instead, they'd happen very rarely at shorter times and then become more likely to happen over time. So you can catch them by very carefully observing a smaller population. https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1467855689531940867 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1467855689531940867 I'm in a study with a silly name (HERO-TOGETHER) which basically means Google emails you every other month to ask if you've died yet. So far I haven't.
  - water8 4y ago
    - dang 4y ago
      Yikes, you can't post like this here. I've banned the account. Normally we give established accounts at least one warning before banning them, but your account has been breaking the site guidelines so badly and so frequently that it's far over the line. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.