(This was posted by Patrick Sullivan Jr.)
How many Pat Sullivan Blog readers know how much Pat and I dislike Orac/Dr. Gorski? I just found someone who may like him even less -- RandomJohn, aka. John Johnson a PhD in statistics.
One of RandomJohn's comments to Orac:
Please, oh Orac, saint of medical scientific research, tell us what proper weight should be given to anecdotal evidence and clinical trial evidence. If thou wouldst but give us thine formula, that we may follow it.
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More on the “my health care system will kick your health care system’s ass” syndrome
You probably have to wade through all the threads for it to really be funny, but personally, I'm ROFLMAO at those two comments! Go read the rest of it here and here.
UPDATE 9/30 5:33pm: RandomJohn writes a few more clever things on this topic in Hornets Nest and Thimerosal.
Funniest line from Thimerosal:
Even more confusing is why people are defending thimerosal so vehemently. I mean seriously, it’s just a compound. It’s not somebody’s son, or a production of literature, or prototype of the next generation flying device. It’s just thimerosal.
Most powerful line from Hornets Nest (emphasis mine):
- [Skepdic's say,] "Your experience doesn’t matter in science"...Read about it here, under the fancified name “pragmatic fallacy.” While it is fallacious to assume that what works for me works for you or anyone else, it’s equally fallacious to assume that what doesn’t work for me will not work for you.
Funniest line from Hornets Nest (no emphasis needed): "This may make Orac barf, but that’s probably for the best."
Runner-up: "And now we know what Orac knows, the view of the world from the ivory tower."
I like this guy. He's definitely funnier than me! Blog-roll him! :)
