Yes, I'm sure that there are long term consequences of all of this.
However, Geert, and Rintrah, aren't talking about this happening in ten years. Instead, they're talking about this happening, ""inescapably"", right now, or almost right now.
Ten years from now doesn't sound like it cuts it to me.
I mean sure, a new deadly pandemic will arise naturally, or will get created in some laboratory eventually, but if people don't start dropping like flies in the next couple of months, then I reckon Geert and Rintrah have probably backed the wrong horse.
Which isn't to say that what's happening isn't bad, and won't end terribly, or that they aren't partly right etc, but is instead just to say that it hasn't/isn't playing out how Geert and Rintrah thought it would and so something else is happening instead.
Which is fine. That's how science is supposed to work. You make a hypothesis, test it, and the results either support your hypothesis or they don't, and if they don't then it's back to the drawing board.
Nobody can say Geert isn't a scientist - he's happy to put his ideas to the test. I for one am going to take him up on that.
But if his ideas fail his own test, but are maintained anyway, then Houston, we have a problem.
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Re: Moving into Autumn
Date: 2023-09-01 03:06 am (UTC)However, Geert, and Rintrah, aren't talking about this happening in ten years. Instead, they're talking about this happening, ""inescapably"", right now, or almost right now.
Ten years from now doesn't sound like it cuts it to me.
I mean sure, a new deadly pandemic will arise naturally, or will get created in some laboratory eventually, but if people don't start dropping like flies in the next couple of months, then I reckon Geert and Rintrah have probably backed the wrong horse.
Which isn't to say that what's happening isn't bad, and won't end terribly, or that they aren't partly right etc, but is instead just to say that it hasn't/isn't playing out how Geert and Rintrah thought it would and so something else is happening instead.
Which is fine. That's how science is supposed to work. You make a hypothesis, test it, and the results either support your hypothesis or they don't, and if they don't then it's back to the drawing board.
Nobody can say Geert isn't a scientist - he's happy to put his ideas to the test. I for one am going to take him up on that.
But if his ideas fail his own test, but are maintained anyway, then Houston, we have a problem.
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