Wednesday, August 19, 2015

beyond social

A media-focus on what nature is saying, rather than only what people are saying, might help.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

2-paddle solutions

All these "one oar in the water" narratives about regulation of antibiotics, climate-change, abortion, herd-immunity with vaccines, guns, population, etc. might be seen as classic model-selection problems. For instance, the need for a "smoking gun" e.g. to connect a specific individual pig to a specific individual microbe to a specific illness of a specific individual person may be organism-centric fantasy -- if you drop back to a robust data/model analysis strategy, like agreeing to focus on models that are least-surprised (in a technical sense) by incoming data, folks may be able to work together to tackle these problems understandably while moving their boat along with paddles on both sides of the canoe.