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49: The Power of Serendipity. Happy Accidents by Morton A Meyers

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Google Health Trends

We said in some episode that google data could predict disease outbreaks and spreads, ind everything. That has been since falsified. There was not further evidence that they could predict epidemics before they happened. It's just from people gogling its. Ifels like still a thing in the us, apparently. We got to send that to a our buddy. You've all as well let him know that e made a mistake spreading fake news.

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This is north korea. They'r prob just bluffing because we sold em to them. Someone sold em. Clinton did. Oh o, i didn't know that. I don't think he sold them a functional nuke, but he sold them, like, some of the technology. Let me look it up, for what purpose? Like, what would we get at of that? All right, i'm immediately retracting what i said about clinton helping them build nuclear reactors. So he struck that deal where, and you can listen to the full explanation of my investigation of this in the bonus material im patrion, clinton had a deal going where he was going to give north carea five billion dollars and two light nuclear reactors. But the whole deal fell through. It never really came to fruition, because it turned out north korea was continuing to enrich uranium, which was in direct kind of contradiction with the deal. And so the whole thing got cut off when george w. Bush became president. So never ash the end of happen. And that that is all it was fake new. So be careful. And, you know, this is why, this is why you can, you know, hopefully trust us a little bit, is that we we try to correct or our fake news. Ye, actually, youknow it, somebody else, somebody else called us out for fake news. Hold on, we got to go find it right now. Because while we're on the fake news a train, we got a, oh, i remember what it was, the the google health trends. When do we talk about ita? But we said in some episode that google data could predict disease outbreaks and spreads, ind everything. And it turns out that is not true. That has been since falsified. That was in one of the books we read. I think it was in merchants of doubt, maybe. I see. Was it that episode? When did somebody tell you about this? They posted it on the patriot. So shout out. Er on is really poorly organized for seeing what people have message to you about. It's, like, hilariously poorly organized. Here we go. The google flue trents thing mentioned in episode 35 has been disproven. There was not further evidence that they could predict epidemics before they happened. So thank you, bill may for pointing that out. Episode 35 was, let's see, a homodaus. Ah, interesting. Oh, i think that was in, that was deaftly in the book. I think it was in the book yet. So we got to send that to a our buddy. You've all as well let him know that e made a mistake spreading fake news. So i found it. I did find an article that they, they tried to do it for sas and for influenza. I dont know if it worked, but thete was an effort to do it, at least at google. It might not have worked, right? So that's probably what was disproven. They might have tried ye it. It might have not workedtheymight have goten lucky once with influenza or something, and then they tried to generalize it, and it didn't work. Yes, i believe that there was an article from this year, actually, like three months ago, talking about how google can predict where syphilus outbreaks will happen. How interesteg. I don't know, againido know if it was actually done or if, from this article, it looks like they made like, an announcement about it, but i don't know how accurately can be done. It's just from people gogling its. Ifels like still a thing in the us, apparently. I'm sure nobody dies of it. No, it's probably not asad as it once like. Imean from this book, they were even talking about syphilis, yes, 28 thousand cases and 20 16. So not alot? Yes, deffly not that much. But y i said they were using search data trye to do thatrsting. But in a one week time frame there were seven thousand, 750 people who goggled it in a geographically similar area.

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