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In reply to the discussion: Richard A. Epstein behind the The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Admin. [View all]Botany
(70,501 posts)3. The problem with his "right model" is that he picked the outcome he wanted and then built a model...
... that gave him his desired outcome. In science you look at known and proven facts and or
data and then and then plug those into a viable model which depending on the quality of the
facts, data, and model you can predict an outcome.
Besides he is a right wing lawyer not an epidemiologist, a biologist, or a Dr..
This is no difference to Trump lashing onto using a medicine for malaria for C-19 which was
pushed on some wing nut web site.
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Richard A. Epstein behind the The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Admin. [View all]
OnDoutside
Mar 2020
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The problem with his "right model" is that he picked the outcome he wanted and then built a model...
Botany
Mar 2020
#3
That's the problem with this administration, refusal to believe true experts.....
groundloop
Mar 2020
#16
Damn "educated" people don't understand the simplest thing about "exponential growth". They
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2020
#10
So this fucking legal scholar Richard Epstein pretended to be a medical doctor and an epidemiologist
dalton99a
Mar 2020
#11
"Richard Epstein pretended to be a medical doctor and an epidemiologist" and so has Trump.
Botany
Mar 2020
#26
Even SCIENTISTS won't predict planetary dynamics like this more than ten days out.
ancianita
Mar 2020
#23
The amazing thing is he ends up shouting down the journalist about expertise
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2020
#34