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Excited to officially announce my new book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty, out in March (UK) and May (US) and available now to pre-order: proof.kucharski.io

It digs into the ideas we can use to weigh evidence and converge on truth under pressure - and what happens when they fail... 1/

Do you know your 'Gish gallop' from your 'motte-and-bailey'? Or the difference between 'sea lioning' and 'well poisoning'?

New post on the bad faith argument playbook - and what we can do about it: https://blog.kucharski.io/?toxic-tactics

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@picardtips Thanks to AI it is now capable of doing neither. 👍
@icet
You misspelled *from now
@picardtips
@adamjkucharski
Thanks for the write up, Adam.
Particularly interested to find out the mechanisms behind the phenotypic differences among the subclades.
Do you know if any labs are doing that research?
New post on mpox, outlining how we got here – and where we might be going next: https://blog.kucharski.io/?how-we-got-here-with-mpox
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@clpkbc
That would be one of the world's leading experts on the history of autocracies, despite your "what about" ad hominem position.
Is that all you got?
@carl @ct_bergstrom
@carl
Autocrats have many similarities. Ideology is NOT necessarily one of them.
@ct_bergstrom
@carl
If you want elaboration in the topic read Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum.
https://www.anneapplebaum.com/book/autocracy/
@ct_bergstrom
Autocracy, Inc. – Anne Applebaum