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"Worstall’s Acuity says that if someone’s talking bullshit to us on one subject we know about then they’ll also be talking bullshit on the things we don’t know about. "

See also: Gell-Mann amnesia effect

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A fuller formulation of Worstall's Acuity would have -"We all know what Gell Mann Amnesia is, here's my reaction to the same situation"

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Quick rule of thumb: anyone quoting or relying on "the Precautionary Principle" is either lying, stupid, or both. These bozos cite it several times.

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Bullshitus in uno, Bullshitus in omnibus

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Brilliant analysis. I'd just add: "One recent estimate has it that to perform that task for England would cost £260 billion" - I've seen (back of an envelope with some hand-waving) estimates of £600 billion for segregating human waste from rainwater disposal. Meanwhile HS2 says "Hold my beer" …

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For me, the question is never the insane compulsion, the question is who's on the other side of that tax spend and how come they're not in jail?

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Haha, and, to take them on their own terms, they seem, from what I can make out - I'm reading Ulysses at the moment and some of their ramblings seem not dissimilar to Joyce's verbiage - to have overlooked the creation of stuff that is going on at the bottom of the oceans in those deep trenches.

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