What the Danish and European media misunderstand (and misrepresent) about America, and vice versa. And other stuff.
I know I said I’m busy and wouldn’t be posting, but courtesy of an Ace of Spades post I read this morning, I couldn’t ignore one of the greatest examples of fraudulent charting I’ve ever seen. Here’s the back-story: recently Twitter slapped “state-funded media” labels (and variants thereof) on the profiles of media organizations that…
According to DR, Statens Serum Institut (SSI) has promised “more precise numbers” for corona admissions after the New Year. The added precision will come in the form of a distinction between inpatient admissions of patients due to corona and admissions of patients with corona. “More precise,” in this case, appears to mean “correct.” SSI is…
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has compelled me to violate my own rule about not embedding tweets. Second time in a week that’s happened. Before we get to the tweet, let’s clarify a few things: the DCCC is an explicitly partisan organization. In their own words (from the “About Us” page of their website),…
The Post makes a pretty strong case with very few words: Given Americans’ general innumeracy, and their apparent amnesia (it was “two weeks to flatten the curve” back in March of 2020), this is probably a much more powerful bit of pro-liberty counter-propaganda than any amount of reasoned arguments. I’d humbly note, however, that asking…
Did you know 72% of Americans lack basic math competence, and the other 38% are below average? That’s obviously a joke, but following the news or browsing a social media feed these days it’s hard not to feel that a population that understood the basics of mathematics might be a little less… agitated. And then…
