Friday, November 16, 2018
Curing Github Syndrome
Via Guardian:
A group of scientists is trying to end the “diet wars” raging over how much fat and carbohydrate we should eat, arguing that what matters for most people is quality. “We have diet wars,” said lead author David Ludwig, professor in the department of nutrition at Harvard Chan School of Public Health. “There are many topics in nutrition in which various colleagues take polarised positions."If you really want to regain public credibility, if you want ANYONE TO LISTEN TO YOU EVER AGAIN, you'll need to go way beyond this nice musing. Here's what you need to do. 1. Figure out the truth, if you can. (Of course you can't, so this is just silly fantasy.) 2. Hire people who know how to talk. Send them on a year-long APOLOGY TOUR, hitting all the TV shows and local "news" programs that typically carried your contradictory nonsense. 3. Make a solid enforceable WARRANTY. Pay some reliable insurers like Prudential and Allstate to set up a TRUTH-INSURANCE POLICY for each and every US taxpayer. The TRUTH-INSURANCE POLICY promises to pay each taxpayer $1000 if you EVER CHANGE one word of the truth, or if anyone can ever reliably prove your statements wrong. A similar approach would resolve the Github and Newspeak problems in other areas. Won't happen. The only permanent fact in Sorosian lands is accelerating dizzying truth-reversal and accccccccccccceleratatatatatating lunalunalunalunalunalunacy.
Labels: modest and stupid proposal
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