Hot Stiff Bias

The news event of the week so far, apart from all the other news events of the week so far, is yesterday’s release by ONS of weekly deaths for 2020....

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Safetyism

Happenstance, coincidence and enemy action, the doctrine of three developed by Dr No’s colleague Goldfinger, is as good a guard as any against the risk of over-reacting to chance events....

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Nefarious Coviddery and Death Inflation*

...by drugs and alcohol - to Lockdown/Covid despair. https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2021/08/alcohol-related-deaths-rose-sharply-in.html dr-no "Well, what caused the 29,000 non-Covid excess deaths?" Not forgetting the 29,000 is an estimate - the problem is the...

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The Cavalry Narrative

...propos the joys of sailing - which I have tasted only briefly, a couple of times - I am reminded of Arthur Ransome's brilliant telegram (from "Swallows and Amazons", I...

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42

...spotted and even better commented! Now corrected. dr-no Tom - ' I still cannot for the life of me see how someone who freely admits to being ignorant and clueless...

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Another Day, Another Perspective

...when you see it". - Dr Malcolm Kendrick https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2021/04/24/covid19-taking-stock/ dr-no Ed P - "would've been worse if X not done" is pure post hoc ergo propter hoc to the nth...

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