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Daniel Dvorkin

@danielmedic.bsky.social

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Bioinformaticist / biostatistician, veteran USAF medic and Army infantryman, armchair paleontologist, occasional science fiction author, long-ago kickboxer, oldbat goth, vaccinated liberal patriot.

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Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 7h

I like lists. Checking off ... items ... is deeply satisfying.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 7h

Nobody deserves to die of an easily preventable disease. If anyone did, though, the people pushing this insanity would be at the top of the list.

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Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 7h

I laughed. But more and more people believe this dangerous nonsense. Our ability to prevent and treat disease is under full-scale attack, and millions—tens or hundreds of millions—will die because of it. 🧪 ⚕️

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Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 1d

#seemslegit

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 1d

Checklist time!

Good food: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌
Good beer: France ❌ Olympus Mons ❌
The Louvre: France ✅ (kind of) Olympus Mons ❌
High peaks: France ✅ Olympus Mons ✅
Highest peak in Solar System: France ❌ Olympus Mons ✅
Cool fossils: France ✅ Olympus Mons ❌ (probably)

Hard decision, really.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 1d

Gee, Bernie, how many tours did you serve?

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 1d

How about that.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, I'm sure it's licensed meth. They're *professionals*.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

I think my direct deposit paperwork got screwed up.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

Could be. Mostly I'm seeing it presented as a parable about how foolish we are to think we can control nature. Which is indeed foolish, but this isn't really an example of that.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine thinking that sumd00d calling himself Bronze Age Pervert will ever have anything worthwhile to say, on any subject.

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 2d

Imagine thinking that the triumph of the city, an ideal habitat for modern humans, is a bad thing.

Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

“A good Bronze Age Pervert tweet..”-Ross Douthat, NYT’s resident intellectual conservative

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine thinking that sumd00d calling himself Bronze Age Pervert will ever have anything worthwhile to say, on any subject.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

I love how when you open the listing, the description ends with, "Listing broker will arrange with city for licensed meth".

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

The HOA board is notoriously unresponsive to resident concerns.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 2d

That meme going around about how #rattlesnakes are evolving to lose their rattles because humans keep killing the ones that rattle? It's a just-so story. I get why those are often satisfying, but they're just as often nonsense. 🧪

Are rattlesnakes evolving to rattle less, or losing their rattles? - Rattlesnake Solutions

Nope. But the topic is interesting, regardless. This is a relatively new myth that’s something to watch, where those of us who regularly work to dispel rattlesnake mythology see spread and grow across...

rattlesnakesolutions.com

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Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 4d

#seemslegit

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Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 4d

STG. He was super-enthusiastic and really couldn't understand why I didn't jump at the chance to get in on this exciting business opportunity.

We were standing right next to the grill, and I think he had no idea how close I came to grabbing his head and pushing his face down on it.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 5d

[climbs out of acid bath] You mean I've been doing this wrong the whole time?

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 6d

This reminds me of the guy I met at a party years ago who, upon learning I was a web developer, wanted to hire me to get around spam blockers so he could advertise his Brazilian sex-tour business.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 7d

"Making fun of #antivaxers isn't the best way to educate them."

"It is very difficult to educate mass murderers as to why mass murder is bad."

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Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 8d

So I stand by my statement: climatologists, for as long as that job has existed, have never had a consensus prediction of cooling. Warming, though, they picked up on quite early.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 8d

That's interesting, and thanks for the link. But as the paper says, climatology as a field only goes back to the mid-19th century—by which time the Industrial Revolution was well underway, and establishing the link between CO2 and heat retention was a major step in its development.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 8d

If there's something here I'm missing, I'd appreciate you pointing it out. Otherwise you're just, you know, blowing hot air.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 8d

Climatologists generally agree that we *would* be in a cooling phase absent GHG emissions, but since we're happily pumping out CO2 and other GHGs, that's not what they're *predicting*. This has been the case ever since climatology existed as a field of study.

Daniel Dvorkin @danielmedic.bsky.social · 8d

It looks to me like you're saying there was a time that climatologists *did* predict cooling instead of warming. And I'm saying there was no such time.