This is another great example of “a lie has already made it to the other side of the world before the truth has finished putting on its shoes”.
By academic standards this study was lightning quick, and yet it’s like three months behind the original lie by those two fraudsters.
Sounds like an interesting read, got a link to said post?
I am partially convinced he started the war with Venezuela specifically because he felt slighted by her winning the prize. Just so he can be petty and deny her the reason she was awarded the prize in the first place.
Often transparently so. I remember the whole “toy bus” thing he pulled at one point during an interview.
Seriously, he’d look so much less like a clown if he dropped the bronzer habit and horrendous comb-over that I am certain he does this on purpose to deflect criticism for his actions by drawing all the attention to how he looks. It’s like a diversion tactic, and sadly it’s working.
This is getting dangerously close to no longer being satire. I am still appalled we got here within a year and I shudder to think where things go from here.
Thanks for sharing that story. This is the kind of stuff that makes me miss the old internet (personal stories about interesting stuff, told in blog format without any kind of social media hype-train angle) and gives me a great appreciation for the kind of nerdy shenanigans engineers used to do.
Always upvote RATM. If only people actually woke up when they first started yelling at us to Wake Up, we could’ve avoided the current mess.
Holy shit this is hard to read, what a grotesque dystopia the US has become.
I am at a loss for words to describe just how completely fucked this situation is.
The parallels with the SS are striking. In more than one way.