Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
What a bunch of armchair intellectuals. Remote jockeys. Bloviators. Excrementalizers.
What’s with all the precious fumbling to fit sophisticated models and statistics into third-grade arithmetic?
It’s like trying to count oranges by petting the dog.
Based on the average “content” maybe one or two you are able to read the abstract and write a synopsis that most of the rest of the posters can dimly understand.
Some of you require several explanations and still don’t get it.
Is that why you need the WSJ to interpret for you?
Newspapers are written barely above the level of functional literacy. That includes the WSJ.
Why aren’t you addressing other sources that conducted similar studies, following current research, and comparing the models, results, and methodologies?
Why aren’t you checking independent sources, such as aid agencies and NGOs?
Is it because you haven’t a clue where to start, and because what is required is THINKING and EFFORT and WORK — unlike the posts you pompous windbags can toss off between visits to porno sites?
As a last resort, when intellectually outgunned or bereft of facts, many of you fall back on every bad example to be learned in a Logic 101 class.
Which means that your arguments and opinions aren’t based on rational thought.
