Nassim N. Taleb: Everything these idiots, frauds, and assholes don't understand
Decoding the Gurus
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The World Health Organization's Contribution to Fighting the Chronovirous Pandemic
The world health organization's contribution to fighting the chronovirous pandemic is summed up by the delay in advocating widespread milsquaring for the public. The majority of their advice was good, and remains good - it is just stuff like social distancing, good hygiene practices or not gathering in large groups. I think what you're sensitive to is that martin baley dynamic that manygars seemt o have, which is that if you take the reasonable version of what they're saying, it's perfectly fine, but it's also rather platitudinous. They get famous for the broad sweeping thing of all experts or idiots don't bother with any statistics. Ok, thisis not democracy
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