Tom Radcliffe
@tjradcliffe.bsky.social
Physicist, Breakthrough Prize Laureate (SNO), poet, engineer, writer, actor, sailor, canoeist, kayaker, boat-builder, businessman, philosopher (Bayesian), executive, entrepreneur (unsuccessful), consulting scientist, inventor, husband, father, grandfather.
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The conclusions were based on what the person who hired them wanted the conclusions to be.
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The conclusions were based on what the person who hired them wanted the conclusions to be.
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Haha classic: “the four citations noted below are incorrect; however they stand by the conclusions and findings"
If you find invalid references after spending 6 or 7 figures for a report, and get told "but it doesn't change anything", that raises the question of what the conclusions are based on.
If you find invalid references after spending 6 or 7 figures for a report, and get told "but it doesn't change anything", that raises the question of what the conclusions are based on.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Haha classic: “the four citations noted below are incorrect; however they stand by the conclusions and findings"
If you find invalid references after spending 6 or 7 figures for a report, and get told "but it doesn't change anything", that raises the question of what the conclusions are based on.
If you find invalid references after spending 6 or 7 figures for a report, and get told "but it doesn't change anything", that raises the question of what the conclusions are based on.
That sounds fascinating. There is a similar dynamic that happens at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale as well. Less so in the middle, I think.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
That sounds fascinating. There is a similar dynamic that happens at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale as well. Less so in the middle, I think.
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If your commander goes completely nuts and tells you to shoot a detainee who's not in combat, is in a detention center, and isn't posing any threat, a junior service member is supposed to recognize that as an unlawful order and refuse to follow it, not presume legality.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
If your commander goes completely nuts and tells you to shoot a detainee who's not in combat, is in a detention center, and isn't posing any threat, a junior service member is supposed to recognize that as an unlawful order and refuse to follow it, not presume legality.
This is the classic "urgent vs important": it's not urgent, but it is important, if you care about the waste involved that goes on decade after decade, pointlessly bleeding time and money.
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is the classic "urgent vs important": it's not urgent, but it is important, if you care about the waste involved that goes on decade after decade, pointlessly bleeding time and money.
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Last time the Russians pissed Finns off this much they didn't recover the bodies until Spring.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Last time the Russians pissed Finns off this much they didn't recover the bodies until Spring.
Flu C only undergoes slow antigenic drift, not the fast antigenic shift type resortment that produces pandemics of flu A, so most adults have pretty good protection against flu C. But it's rising at a time our immune systems are reeling due to covid. Which well might be coincidence. Still concerning
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Flu C only undergoes slow antigenic drift, not the fast antigenic shift type resortment that produces pandemics of flu A, so most adults have pretty good protection against flu C. But it's rising at a time our immune systems are reeling due to covid. Which well might be coincidence. Still concerning
Except me. I always suggest a European model. No one cares. I just find it frustrating that Canada refuses to learn from or even look at countries that do social democracy so much better than us, but instead insist on defending our so-so model because it's better than the worst country in the world.
November 24, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Except me. I always suggest a European model. No one cares. I just find it frustrating that Canada refuses to learn from or even look at countries that do social democracy so much better than us, but instead insist on defending our so-so model because it's better than the worst country in the world.
Sure, and without shame no principle of any kind can be socially enforced, becausethere is no other way. Shame is a tool. It can be used for good or bad thongs. And it does a job that we have no other tool for. Don't want shame? Find a *viable* replacement. I'd love to have one, but I don't see any.
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sure, and without shame no principle of any kind can be socially enforced, becausethere is no other way. Shame is a tool. It can be used for good or bad thongs. And it does a job that we have no other tool for. Don't want shame? Find a *viable* replacement. I'd love to have one, but I don't see any.
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also not only CAN you build your way out of climate change, it's the only way out, and not building our way out of climate change dooms hundreds of millions to misery and displacement.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
also not only CAN you build your way out of climate change, it's the only way out, and not building our way out of climate change dooms hundreds of millions to misery and displacement.