Scientism Versus Honesty
Models of anything, unleavened with judgment forged in honest and open debate, are not “science” at all. Unfortunately, we have of late had very little honest and open debate, and that is a huge problem.
Modeling panic in Austin
We do not have the data science skills to answer a question that troubles us, to wit the extent to which epidemiological models have over-estimated risk of Covid-19 and thereby influenced suppressi…