Yeah totally. He even goes so far as to ascribe the "winning" of unvaxed as getting lucky based upon their irrational suspicion of the government and institutions. It's like he can't admit that it wasn't about winning but it was about a rational evaluation of evidence and a healthy skepticism informed by the past.
They "just got lucky" seems so asinine. That alone pretty much eliminates my respect for Adams as an intellectual. I guess that for all that other stuff he said that I thought was so insightful, he "just got lucky.,
The other very common, "go to" retcon is: "Yeah, it turned out I was incorrect, but I was correct based on information available at the time." No, MFers, there's nothing in any "science" or reasoning that ever forces you to say something incorrect. Ever.
Yeah totally. He even goes so far as to ascribe the "winning" of unvaxed as getting lucky based upon their irrational suspicion of the government and institutions. It's like he can't admit that it wasn't about winning but it was about a rational evaluation of evidence and a healthy skepticism informed by the past.
They "just got lucky" seems so asinine. That alone pretty much eliminates my respect for Adams as an intellectual. I guess that for all that other stuff he said that I thought was so insightful, he "just got lucky.,
The other very common, "go to" retcon is: "Yeah, it turned out I was incorrect, but I was correct based on information available at the time." No, MFers, there's nothing in any "science" or reasoning that ever forces you to say something incorrect. Ever.