{"id":7386,"date":"2014-12-23T18:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T02:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2014-12-23T18:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T02:10:06","slug":"the-villains-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/the-villains-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"The Villains of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Villains of 2014. (Harmful to the collective).<\/p>\n<p>+ GMO Lobbyists working for Monsanto or others, along with the &#8220;sponsored&#8221; scientists and, easy to buy\/influence, science journos. Likewise companies s.a. Starbucks financing lawsuits against states mandating labelling.<\/p>\n<p>+ EBOLA: Naive empiricists using bogus &#8220;empirical&#8221; arguments against worrying about Ebola (comparing a fat-tailed multiplicative process to a thin-tailed one). Typically journos or paternalistic &#8220;psychologists of risk&#8221; with misdefinition of &#8220;rationality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>+ WAHABISTAS: Saudis, Qataris and other Gulf people financing terrorism &amp; religious intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>+ NAIVE EMPIRICISM: Scientists ignorant of statistical methods making statements about an &#8220;evidence&#8221; they &#8220;discovered&#8221; that does not match the statistical statements in their own paper made by some statistician who processed data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152676917878375&amp;id=13012333374\">The Villains of 2014. (Harmful to the&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Villains of 2014. (Harmful to the collective). + GMO Lobbyists working for Monsanto or others, along with the &#8220;sponsored&#8221; scientists and, easy to buy\/influence, science journos. Likewise companies s.a. Starbucks financing lawsuits against states mandating labelling. + EBOLA: Naive empiricists using bogus &#8220;empirical&#8221; arguments against worrying about Ebola (comparing a fat-tailed multiplicative process to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7387,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}