‘Too stupid to see how stupid they are’ – The ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ is used all over the place to rub in people’s ignorance. Does the effect exist – and if it does, how big is it really?
Someone fucked up badly at MDPI Vaccines
The latest article that is promoted by anti-vaxxers and corona sceptics is published by Open Access publisher MDPI, where someone must have fucked up really bad.
Hanlon’s razor is a disposable one
“It is better to think of Hanlon’s razor as a disposable one. If you think you can to use it very often on the same person, you are being naive.”
Bayes Lines Tool is just another flawed attempt by the consortium to discredit PCR tests
The ‘consortium’ that’s attacking the Corman-Drosten PCR-test has published an mathematically flawed article on which they base the claim that number of false positives is huge in PCR tests for the coronavirus.
Some considerations on the retraction paper for the Corman-Drosten PCR test
A number of self-proclaimed PCR experts are attempting to have the first scientific article describing a PCR test for the coronavirus withdrawn. A look at their arguments and at their background.
Stanley Meyer, the inventor of the water-powered car, was not killed by Belgian investors
Soon after Meyer’s sudden death in 1998, rumours started. Were the Belgian investors he was dining with on that fatal evening actually killers send to poison him to make sure that his invention could not longer threaten the interests of the fossil fuels industry? Now more than twenty years later, one of these investors, Philippe Vandemoortele, tells what actually happened.
The Spanish Flu of 1918 was not Caused by an Experimental Vaccine Against Meningitis
A myth promoted by antivaxxers claims that an experimental vaccine was the main cause of pneumonia in patients with the 1918 influenza. This can’t be true as the vaccine was based on different bacteria than those found in the patients.
Debunking Fall Cabal by Janet Ossebaard – Parts 6-10
In parts 6-10 of her Fall of the Cabal video series Ossebaard mixes other conspiracy theories with Q-mythology. It gets even more far fetched and in the end reads like science fiction.
FLOGEN SIPS conferences, where Nobelists meet fringe scientists and frauds
The FLOGEN SIPS conferences use a interesting business model. Nobelist keynote speakers are given a nice holiday, and with their status other participants are lured in. And there are plenty of awards to caress everyone’s ego.
Debunking Fall Cabal by Janet Ossebaard – Part 5
Part 5 of the Fall Cabal series is mostly about #PizzaGate. It was removed by YouTube. Ossebaard just rehashes all QAnon nonsens that has been debunked a long time ago.