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Folta, GMOs, Friedman, Charlatans | Twitter

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Shameful. Let us clean up science. This is not about smalltimer Folta but about corporate control of science. https://t.co/dhhF4jhjXU

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 5, 2015

FAA should manage GMOs https://t.co/pZDZI175T8

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 4, 2015

GMOs Facts and Fiction: a cheat sheet (Revised). (Added the “consensus” needed for plane safety.) pic.twitter.com/09SmfaK3ck

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 5, 2015

OK, OK, after 10 years, I take Tom Friedman out of the dog house. https://t.co/Vu3QJvtQND

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 4, 2015

No, I don’t *talk* about refugees. Why? Because I am housing 6 Syrian refugees in Lebanon. #Skininthegame.

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 3, 2015

A Wonderfully Simple Heuristic to Recognize Charlatans | Farnam Street https://t.co/c3cKhrqQsv via @farnamstreet

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 3, 2015

GMOs , Joseph Traub, Emanuel Derman | Twitter

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Got the GMO renormalization result in closed form: Renorm(n):=1-(1-p)^{4^n}… was too obvious.

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 29, 2015
RIP Joseph Traub. In 1996, at a conference, I used his name tag. Someone:”Thought Traub is older”. R:”I eat healthy” http://t.co/yHuN44rV54

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 29, 2015
With @EmanuelDerman before our lectures making snide comments trying to confuse the speaker while looking serious. pic.twitter.com/rGTJK4i81s

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 27, 2015

Folta, GMOs, Khaled Asaad, City State, Regression,

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Before the Folta Affair, was debatable. Today it’s the public’s only protection. Why it’s OK to ‘snoop’ on scientists http://t.co/BgrTU3iNa1

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 21, 2015
The New Engl Jour of Medicine is truuuuuuuuuly independent. Great antiBS article: GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health http://t.co/UhxESMWSE6

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 20, 2015
RIP, Khaled Asaad, man of honor. Beheaded by ISIS. Skin in the game to the end. http://t.co/wNklL7REQR

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 19, 2015
Mike Bloomberg uses our framework on fragility, governance, and advantage of municipal-based systems vs centralized https://t.co/gz2jUTMkzO

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 19, 2015
Regression Shmegression: How regression fails under Fat Tails. pic.twitter.com/S2FaUQolsQ

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 19, 2015
Think slowly, act quickly. [The only Latin proverb that translates better than original. “Deliberandum est quidquid statuendum est semel”.]

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 17, 2015
Gamble; but never gamble with the wrong dice.

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 14, 2015

Researcher finds himself center of battle over GMOs and corporate support | InsideHigherEd

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In case you’re wondering what all the hoopla is about.

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The Nature article is based on thousands of pages of Folta’s emails, which were recently obtained by the anti-GMO group U.S. Right to Know via an open records request. Although Folta vehemently denies having “close ties” to Monsanto, he readily admits to another detail in the article: that in 2014 he accepted an unrestricted $25,000 grant from the company to further his active outreach agenda on scientific communication.Folta said that he visits colleges, universities and even elementary schools to talk a

Source: Researcher finds himself center of battle over GMOs and corporate support | InsideHigherEd
See Also: The Fight Over Transparency: Round Two

Lindy Effect, GMOs, Shills, Solar Energy, Pope Francis |Twitter @nntaleb

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NNT has been VERY busy on Twitter lately. This is just a sampling from the last few days. Usually but not always, I select Tweets that include links to additional information.

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ANSWER: Every loss of crop raises total ruin 100 fold. Halving crops raises total ruin by 100 quintillion 10^20 (assuming independence).

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 13, 2015
@nntaleb you will like this onion article on GMOs http://t.co/1m2TtHFTqG

— Ben Hayes (@benhayesnyc) August 12, 2015
Relgious heuristics have played in role in intergenerational risk management http://t.co/FFY7OTbe8c @Streitapfel

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 12, 2015
The pope is reciting a version of our Precautionary Pple: Pope Francis Joins Battle Against Transgenic Crops http://t.co/Z9LsDsZdog

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 12, 2015
Additional aphorisms added to INCERTO https://t.co/NNpAtYK9N5

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 11, 2015
Deep down,thrilled to see political established annihilated by Trump whom I can’t stand. Prefer stupiddemocracy to fakedemocracy @ianbremmer

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 10, 2015
The value of solar energy is in the optionality: raw material is free AND doesn’t change in price, with no of negative optionality (waste).

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 10, 2015
A new scholarly article on the fake “consensus” on GMOs and the travesty of science by corporate interests. (Gated) http://t.co/PqEDT5U3dr

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 10, 2015
We are witnessing the prostitution of science: Like Monsanto, Coca-Cola Funds Shills to Distort Science. http://t.co/U5bMx7mwRF

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 10, 2015
Wrong to evaluate a statistical concept (unconditional life expectancy) from (conditional) exceptions. #LindyEffect https://t.co/cUQvM72ANx

— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) August 9, 2015