Let's talk religion

  No, and I am not RFK.  I do not make any sweeping criticism of all health care.   I have health care myself.   So far I have no cancer, but I am certain they will let me know if I ever get cancer.  If anything needs to be cut out, they will cut it out.   I have a relative who is profoundly concerned I am not being tested.  I am being tested.   I get regular checkups.

  I am not a Trump base bad boy.  I don't hate all authority.  I don't hate science.  I happen to have some talent for science, math, and computer programming. Over the many years I learned to program in C++, Perl, Python, Javascript, PHP, several of Microsoft's "Basic" languages, and several languages that are not as versatile as all those are.  I also have a handheld "programmable" calculator I usually use separately, but it can connect by USB to my desktop computer.

  I have little or no data on prior vaccines, maybe RFK does, but I did watch the news daily on covid.  I crunched the numbers as the expression goes.  I only criticize those specific numbers that do not fit the overall patterns in the numbers.  I have no confidence in RFK to do that.

  Some of the obvious errors I have found are ...

1)  That the temperature of the entire atmosphere of Earth can be measured to within 2 degrees.  The problem of getting that much accuracy is that there are 2.3 billion cubic miles of atmosphere and that is only counting the first 12 miles above the surface.  There will likely be a problem known as undersampling.  That does not mean the globe is not warming. That is so important I will say it twice.   That does not mean the globe is not warming.  It only means that some of the people arguing that the globe is warming are not using proper methods.  The globe could in fact be warming but they have no skill to show that it is.

2)  That reductions in polar ice mean the globe is warming.   Again the globe might indeed be warming, but reductions in polar ice are not certain indicators it is.  The water in the atmosphere is put there mostly in the tropical regions.  A cooling planet could mean less water is being put in the atmosphere. Polar ice can be sublimated by direct sunlight even if the planet is slightly cooler.

3)  That the levels of carbon dioxide on the entire planet can be measured long into the past.  The theory is that when air gets trapped in ice its level of carbon dioxide can be preserved for centuries.  The problem with that is the same undersampling problem with temperature, but far worse.  They only have one site, not thousands.   Much like temperature, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is very rapidly changing. There is a highly dynamic interchange between plants and animals.

4)  That people should drive electric vehicles that get their electricity from burning fossil fuels.  Using solar power makes some sense.  Driving electric vehicles that do not use solar power makes no sense.

   Are you seeing a pattern here? There is a push to "follow the science" by people who have no talent for science. Talk about control now.

5)  Covid is far more complicated. While is does take a doctor to determine exactly how sick a person might be, any child can see who is dead or not.  That is how we know the panic got out of control, was inordinate to the problem.  The "death toll" was really not especially high.   What clearly did happen was that the death toll dropped for decades because of improvements in health care.  Then about a decade before covid it started somewhat "dramatically" and steadily rising.   What does that mean?  It is important to know what it means.  It does not mean the quality of health care fell off.  It does mean the people who were living longer because of improvements in health care had to die eventually.   It was never believed they would live forever.  Improvements in health care might have slowed as science got all caught up.  Then those living longer eventually started dying. You can see the death toll rising in a somewhat straight line for a decade before covid then through covid.   The matter is complicated by the fact that the population in years between a census must be estimated.  Even so, there is no sharp rise in the death toll attributable to covid. In fact the deaths supposedly "from" covid were typically examples of comorbidity.   That is, people who were going to die from something else anyway.  They were very old and likely those people who lived longer because of earlier improvements in health whose time eventually ran out.

   Most people with an IQ over 85 understand that.  This board consists mostly of people with an IQ under 85. The evening news is dominated by people with an IQ under 85.

   By the way I believe that the list of errors in science I have presented here are mostly deliberate attempts to trap amateurs.  I can't prove that, but it is rather easy to dismiss people who believe those things.  You really should shut up, but if you don't then no sensible person is listening anyway.  See how we "stifle" anyone?  I think maybe there was no trap set with covid.  It might well be that the amateurs managed that one all on their own.