Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦
@shallit43
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Grumpy old American mathematician and computer scientist. Erdös number equals 1.
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1. If you claim "no vaccine in history was developed/approved as rapidly as the Covid vaccines" without having examined the timeline for the Salk polio vaccine, nor the technological advances that made rollout so speedy, you might be a
#covidiot
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@MacFarlaneNews
@daveweigel
Then everyone who broke into the Capitol building needs to be charged with felony murder.
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@jeremycyoung
@roderickgraham
Rufo is a propagandist and self-admitted pathological liar. Nothing he says can be taken as true.
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Here are some of the most typical comments whenever I post a study showing mRNA vaccines are safe and effective.
Such high-quality argumentation!
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@SenTomCotton
Tom Cotton gets very upset when judges refuse to be corrupt toadies, and instead demonstrate integrity and independence.
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Remember all the anti-vaxers, radical libertarians, and conspiracy theorists who blithely assured us on twitter that Covid lockdowns were "just the first step" and would be "permanent"?
Did any of them, even a single one, admit they were wrong or apologize?
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@RepMTG
How right you are! As a resident of Canada I can testify that all my friends and neighbors are extremely worried about being invaded by Russia. In fact, it's all we talk about.
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@JenniferVEvans
@jeffjarvis
We have entirely failed as a society if the measure of the worth of a person and their work is the number of likes their tweets receive.
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@letshearthetru
@cmclymer
A good sign of derangement is always assuming other people do what they do (especially those that you disagree with) only because they are paid.
The notion of doing something because you believe in it is entirely lost on these sad, bitter, lonely idiots.
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@JamieSale
Calling a mask a "face diaper" is a implicit admission that you know what comes out of your own mouth.
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@TheEliKlein
What is it with these moral zeros who seem to believe it's actually a virtue to refuse to wear a simple mask to keep other people safe?
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@coolswife
@KiernanNadja
@simba80171
Translation: "I was too stupid to go to university, but I still enjoy making up ridiculous fantasies about what it would be like"
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I long for the days when the corrupt robber barons of the US endowed libraries and concert halls, instead of attempting to destroy democracy and getting deranged, evil people elected to the nation's highest office.
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@SlickTweetsSC
Did you know that in order to be a Trump delegate, they give you a test to see if you're a pathological liar, and you can only serve if you are?
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@LFPress
Students should certainly avoid this professor, who is spreading misinformation about the Covid vaccine being "experimental".
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@AlexBerenson
Translation: "I know no health care workers and have absolutely no idea about their desire to be vaccinated."
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Here is my new and improved list of Remarkably Stupid Anti-Vaxer and
#Covidiot
Responses. All these comments were actually made to me personally in response to posting data or peer-reviewed studies.
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@Ladies4Trump20
@DineshDSouza
@PreetBharara
So, Females for Trump, what is it that you like best aboout
@RealDonaldTrump
?
Is it his admitted sexual assault of women? Or grifting of poor students at Trump University? Or his pathological lying (over 3000 lies so far)? Which is your favorite?
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@JonathanTurley
I am still unclear why people dispute the existence of Bigfoot, when we have so many photographs and sworn testimony.
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@Pennuelsotonye
@benshapiro
Got news for you, jack, "marriage" isn't in the domain of biology. Frogs aren't celebrating under a canopy.
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@DBrodyReports
The infallible sign of a poor writer is that he always blames others for misunderstanding his words.
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Gonna try something different today. If you like it, join in and contribute some of your own. Warning: 25 tweets or more ahead.
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@JonathanTurley
Omigod this guy is such a shameless joke.
If it got approved right away, Turdley would have called it `rushed'.
But since it got carefully scrutinized, then he says it couldn't have been that important.
What is the exact amount of time that was appropriate?
Turdley won't say.
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@Hastes
@Cernovich
As a university professor for 40 years, I can tell you that Wikipedia is often a great way to get into the primary literature, and we use it all the time. I get my graduate students to create & improve existing articles.
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@GEGus23
@TeamFactsMatter
@KylieJaneKremer
@RyanSchmidt27
@KruseSocial
If your particular ideology requires you to support a rapist, admitted sexual assaulter, charity fraudster, tax cheat, insurrectionist, convicted felon, and pathological liar for the highest office in the land, then the only possible conclusion is that your ideology is corrupt.
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4. If you believe masks can't stop the spread of Sars-Cov-2 because "the pores in masks are bigger than the virus", and as a kid you also played with water ballons that didn't leak, you might be a
#covidiot
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2. If you are still babbling about the distinction between "with Covid" and "from Covid", but never looked at a death certificate and can't say what the two classifications for causes of death typically listed on them are, you might be a
#covidiot
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@DrAseemMalhotra
Vaccines saved 20,000,000 lives so far.
Katalin Kariko will be revered for decades, while you are entirely forgotten or remembered only in the chronicle of grifters.
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@GoldwagNathan
The Atlantic is truly bad these days. I gave up reading it long ago. There are still some good writers there, like Ed Yong, but 90% of it is just ridiculous contrarian takes completely divorced from reality and crappy writing.
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6. If you claim that VAERS reports are proof that the Covid vaccines aren't safe, but you haven't read the prominent disclaimer on the VAERS database saying that its data CANNOT be used to infer causality, you might be a
#covidiot
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Link:
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7. If you claim that Sars-Cov-2 is "the same as the flu", without realizing that influenza viruses are in the family Orthomyxoviridae , while Sars-Cov-2 is in the family Coronaviridae, you might be a
#covidiot
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12. If you're still pushing Sweden as a model for how society should handle Covid, but can't admit
that Sweden's had twice the number of deaths per capita as neighbors Denmark and Finland, and 3
times the deaths per capita as neighbor Norway, you might be a
#covidiot
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3. If you claim CDC statistics about Covid deaths are lies, but don't realize these statistics are collected from many diverse jurisdictions with all sorts of political leanings, and you won't say what source of statistics you WOULD accept as valid, you might be a
#covidiot
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@DougJBalloon
"Pundit" is one of the only jobs where being wrong over and over and over again has no consequences.
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14. If you're still claiming that Covid could have been cured by Ivermectin, but "Big Pharma" tried to suppress it to make money, while not realizing that drugmaker Merck is one of the largest makers of Ivermectin, you might be a
#covidiot
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@ggreenwald
I think I finally understand what caused Glenn Greenwald to become so deranged: his cut-rate ethical compass was only designed to work in the Northern Hemisphere. Once he crossed the equator, it started pointing in the opposite direction.
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@patriottakes
Calling it a "face diaper" is an implicit admission about what she believes comes out of her own mouth, isn't it?
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@randyhillier
Electrician who cannot master the plural of "party" and doesn't know the fallacy of extrapolation from personal experience wants to expose yet more Canadians to a deadly virus.
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11. If you claim that "masks don't work" to help stop the spread of Covid, and you haven't read the dozen scientific studies that show that they actually do, you might be a
#covidiot
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link:
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@VP
@trumps_feed
@BetsyDeVosED
@POTUS
Translation: "We fundamentalists want to destroy public education, because we want to hide the truth about evolution and global warming."
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18. If you reply to the observation that the death rate from Covid in the US is 3221 per million, while in Canada it's only 1116 per million by saying "the US has more people", you're definitely a
#covidiot
who doesn't know what "per million" means.
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5. If you falsely claim the mRNA vaccines are "useless" for stopping Omicron infection and spread, you might be a
#covidiot
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Link:
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@joelockhart
@Harvard
Many (not all!) who go there are rich and entitled and have never suffered.
Great for making corporate lawyers and for preserving the status quo that got them there.
Not so great for making principled, thoughtful people who want to remedy the ills of society.
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8. If you insist that "viruses don't exist", but can't tell me what is displayed in the attached photo, you might be a
#covidiot
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10. If you're still blithely accepting the claims of an epidemiologist who guessed that "covid-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA", when the total number is now a factor of 25 higher, you might be a
#covidiot
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@conor64
Translation: "I had to become a fascist, because all those brown people said things I didn't like."
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13. If you're tweeting the opinions of Brownstone Inst. contributors, who have no obligation to reveal conflicts of interest, while simultaneously refusing to accept the verdict of experts who *do* have these ethical obligations and they state them, you might be a
#covidiot
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@RepMTG
Most of us here in Canada are currently taking Russian courses so we can be sure to be able to converse with our new overlords.
For example, Ты самая глупая женщина в мире.
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@sapinker
@SamHarrisOrg
I think one of the identifying characteristics of the "Intellectual Dark Web" is how concerned they are with self-congratulation.
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25. If you believe the VERY SAME EXPERTS who were able to detect myocarditis as a very rare adverse effect in some Covid vaccines would NOT have also detected a huge rise in vaccine-caused cardiac deaths, if it existed (it doesn't), you might be a
#covidiot
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@DineshDSouza
Imagine the chutzpah of a convicted criminal campaign finance fraudster believing anyone takes him seriously.
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@brownstoneinst
Just another unqualified person playing amateur epidemiologist. "PhD in educational psychology", but no training in epidemiology, data analysis, or statistical methods? Clownstone says "Let's publish that sucker!"
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@srkraaijeveld
@rachelgurarie
@ID_ethics
I am more and more convinced, by nonsense like this, that the single largest barrier to having better medical ethics is medical ethicists.
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@nhannahjones
What are the chances that
@JohnHMcWhorter
will devote a NYT column to this?
Pretty small, I'd wager.
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15. If you're still pushing hydroxychloroquine as a remedy for Covid, when study after study showed no benefit, you might be a
#covidiot
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link:
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@JonathanTurley
The case is clear, unless one is deliberately determined to ignore the evidence.
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17. If you're still claiming the IFR for Covid is 0.1%, when so far 1,061,000 Americans died from Covid, meaning that if every single American were already infected, the IFR would be 0.322%, you might be a
#covidiot
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@Cernovich
@mattyda_12
I looked up "projection" in the dictionary and there was a picture of Cernovich.
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22. If you're babbling about the "Nuremberg Code" and fantasizing about violence against public health officials, you might have antisocial personality disorder and also you're a
#covidiot
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Link:
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@SteveKingIA
@realDonaldTrump
And if honesty and integrity and competency were the measures by which we evaluated Congressmen, you wouldn't be in power, nor most of your peers.
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@letsgomathias
@mmfa
@AlKapDC
The only tactics right-wing Christians have are threats and intimidation, and the only argument they know is the argument by promissory note.
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@atrupar
@RepSwalwell
Anti-abortion people like
@cateici
in this clip have to lie shamelessly, because they know they cannot win with truth.
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20. If you say "What other vaccine did we need four of in less than two years?" as if it's some kind of gotcha, and you don't know what the DTaP-IPV-Hib vaccine is or why you get 4 in less than two years, you might be a
#covidiot
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Link:
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@CaitlinPacific
Translation: "Actually, I have simply no idea whatsoever about what goes on at universities today."
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19. If you're happy to quote scientific results from loony partisan political sources---left or right---without looking up the original papers themselves to ensure their results have been summarized correctly, you might be a
#covidiot
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@JDVance1
That's a remarkably stupid argument. Surely the takeaway is that we need to improve our social services, not refuse to admit more immigrants.
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23. If you're claiming that everyone who gets a Covid vaccine these days is "part of a clinical trial", but can't produced a signed form where you agreed to be part of that trial, you might be a damned liar and also a
#covidiot
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16. If you're quoting stuff from the site "Swiss Policy Research",an anonymous website that doesn't reveal its authors,contributors, or funding, while ignoring results in the peer-reviewed literature where all three are stated, you might be a
#covidiot
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24. If you're quoting early scenarios on mortality by Covid modellers that stated they were based on "no mitigation efforts", while deliberately ignoring the ones that were based on various levels of mitigation, you might be pathologically dishonest and also a
#covidiot
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@randyhillier
...because there's a deadly worldwide pandemic that has already killed over 15,000 Canadians.
But some people are too selfish to take the smallest action to keep their neighbors healthy.
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@MicrobiomDigest
I once proposed a talk entitled "Why this conference is a scam and the people running it are corrupt and incompetent"
but unfortunately it was not accepted.
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the recommendations of actual experts in virology, epidemiology, and public health, you might be a
#covidiot
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@dorothy1961
@TomCottonAR
@redrivergrl
@nytimes
Morons who cannot even spell "lose" correctly cannot be regarded as authorities on the subject of education.
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@JDVance1
The same jingoists who beat their chests about America being the greatest country in the world, and can overcome any challenge, also insist it's entirely impossible to increase the amount of renewable energy that America uses.
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@randyhillier
@SanderD001
And that, in a nutshell, is the insane argument of Hillier and his followers: "people die every day".
Then why have seat belt laws, air bags, guard rails? Why have hospitals and doctors at all? After all, people die every day.
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@SharylAttkisson
@trumps_feed
Because before there was new info coming out almost every week before, and now there's not. Everyone is awaiting the next Mueller indictment.
You'd think a real journalist would understand basic journalism.
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