Framing and emphasis.
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Once again:
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Yes, the Chinese Uyghur community have legitimate and serious grievances
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The Uyghur narrative being promoted in the Western media is (a) heavily slanted, and (b) driven by imperialist motives that have fuck-all to do with human rights or democracy.
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Victory achieved, Beth finally changes her Twitter handle:
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Small silver linings:
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Idle musings:
Much police work is essentially pseudoscience.
In science, the idea is to begin with an unbiased collection of data, and to examine it impartially. A priori hypothesising is dangerous; experimental design is ideally constructed to test assumptions, not confirm them.
Police, OTOH, work the other way. They start with a guess as to what might have happened and then collect or manufacture evidence to confirm their assumptions.
The reason why scientists don’t work like police is because we know from experience that doing it like that is a recipe for maximising your false positive error rates.
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NYT pushing the naturalistic fallacy for wealth inequality:
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