Follow up: “The winter COVID wave that wasn’t”
Despite projections the U.S. could see more than 100 million COVID-19 cases this fall and winter, the country did not experience a true winter wave for the first time. Source:…
Follow up: “Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right – The New York Times”
The NY Times relied upon a software engineer who retrained in sociology to study the intersection of technology and society to write columns on epidemiology topics. The NY Times gave…
Expert Follow up: Prof. Zeynup Tufekci’s 2020 Covid forecasts
By the time it was over, Slovakia had the 11th highest mortality rate in the world. But to her, in 2020, a low initial Covid count proved masks worked. This…
Follow up: Forbes says SVB one of America’s Best Banks
And did this just 3 days before the bank collapsed. Experts rule! Seems likely that SVB will be declared “Too big to fail” and taxpayers will bailout the bankers and…
Follow up, Economy: How to turn $320/share into $0/share using this one weird trick
The trick is to listen to Jim Cramer – who pushed SVB stock just a month ago. Today the company is no longer in business. Cramer is an investment clown…
Follow up: How public health fooled America
This column was published in November 2021. Looking back, everything said in the column proved to be true. Source: How Fauci Fooled America | Opinion
Follow up: “No Snow” California coming
A year ago: A year later: As of now, California has it’s 2nd deepest snow pack in their history records. It’s officially the snowiest season to date in Lake Tahoe…
Public health: Vaccinated and boosted, TV personality gets Covid for the third time
The TODAY co-anchor did not continue on the show on Feb. 28 after testing positive. Source: Savannah Guthrie Tests Positive for COVID-19 During Live TODAY Broadcast Do you remember when…
Experts: Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong
Source: Why Experts are Almost Always Wrong | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine Expert prediction accuracy is often worse than if random guesses were made. The reason they are bad is…
Follow up: “Forecasters predicted a trace of snow, then Portland set an 80-year record”
Yet another triumphant success of models: Forecasters predicted a trace of snow, then Portland set an 80-year record. What happened? – oregonlive.com As my son mentioned to me, “all models…