Not only does the actual Chinese government disagree with their measurement, the actual source of the data (Moatsos 2021) used to make that plot calls the 0% poverty rate data in 1990 unrealistic!
They used the lower bound of a data set with huge uncertainty and claimed it was the real poverty rate
September 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Not only does the actual Chinese government disagree with their measurement, the actual source of the data (Moatsos 2021) used to make that plot calls the 0% poverty rate data in 1990 unrealistic!
They used the lower bound of a data set with huge uncertainty and claimed it was the real poverty rate
There seems to be an identical second version of this account that started posting at the same time, just with a different misspelling of Saeed in the handle.
May 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
There seems to be an identical second version of this account that started posting at the same time, just with a different misspelling of Saeed in the handle.
Doctors at the time thought it was revolutionary, doctors today talk about how incredibly lucky we were to discover it. But because random chance was an obvious factor in its discovery, the opinion of medical doctors and researchers can be completely ignored. They prefer an alternative history.
April 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Doctors at the time thought it was revolutionary, doctors today talk about how incredibly lucky we were to discover it. But because random chance was an obvious factor in its discovery, the opinion of medical doctors and researchers can be completely ignored. They prefer an alternative history.
The discovery and mass production of penicillin at the specific time and place that it occurred (WW2, on the Allied side) radically altered history. What would the baby boom generation look like in a world with a much higher infant and maternal mortality rate from infection?
April 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The discovery and mass production of penicillin at the specific time and place that it occurred (WW2, on the Allied side) radically altered history. What would the baby boom generation look like in a world with a much higher infant and maternal mortality rate from infection?
Penicillin was discovered because a specific species of mold spore drifted onto a bacterial culture plate that was left open by accident. The first successful uses of penicillin depended on luck about what impurities were present in the solution.
Millions of lives were saved by random chance.
April 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Penicillin was discovered because a specific species of mold spore drifted onto a bacterial culture plate that was left open by accident. The first successful uses of penicillin depended on luck about what impurities were present in the solution.
Shouldn't the "capitalists own the media" model of society predict Capitalists using that power to elect a corporate manager type (e.g. Mitt Romney) and not a lunatic who wants to invade Greenland and destroy international trade because email jobs make you trans.
April 8, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Shouldn't the "capitalists own the media" model of society predict Capitalists using that power to elect a corporate manager type (e.g. Mitt Romney) and not a lunatic who wants to invade Greenland and destroy international trade because email jobs make you trans.