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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
He’s getting more views on the “I was wrong” videos so I have doubts about his real motivation. I know, I’m very cynical.
99% of flat earthers are just trolling, I refuse to believe anything else
I don’t know the percentage, but I’ve been to a flat earthers/variety conspiracy convention. Unless all of them are pretty good actors, they’re all were very serious about their batshitery. It’s scary, really.
So did you set up a pendulum during the convention?
I was there with the pure anthropological interest
99% of them are in it for the community. The other 1% is in it for the views and followers.
This is a dangerous mindset. People can and do seriously believe in utterly stupid things like flat earth. The thing is, being a flat earther kind of ruins your life. Everyone you know who isn’t a flat earther (so, most people) thinks you’re a complete moron and have gone off the deep end, and good luck getting a job at a normal company if your entire online presence is promoting a belief in flat earth. It’s not really something you can do casually- it’s all or nothing.
That’s not a given, and the human brain has very strong aversions to admitting fault.
You’re right, I was wrong.
I wouldn’t say you’re wrong necessarily, just that prevailing indications suggest the opposite.
you can both be wrong
And also add to that that this is more like escaping from a cult than it is merely admitting you were silly and wrong.
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)
There are two kinds of reality: the first is in the human head, the second is what it really is.
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.
