Favorite Rejects 2022-01-26

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

Since when does China respect U.S. patents???

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD 🇨🇦 @EpiEllie

The main claim here👇🏼 is China’s vaccines don’t work well & it’s presented as China’s fault. But is it really? Or is America controlling who gets the better vaccines? Reframe: America’s vaccine patent protections are a pandemic that’s already happening. https://t.co/svOLazokzp

Peter Bonilla @pebonilla

tylercowen @tylercowen

In making predictions, don't put too much weight on the very recent past:

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

sam @sam_d_1995

The Korean left’s presidential candidate apologized for NIMBY policies driving up housing prices and is now pledging to upzone the city to bring prices down! Just trying to imagine a Bay Area NIMBY politician like @AaronPeskin or @DavidCamposSF doing this lol

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

Between this and the "sonofabitch" comment, Biden is reaching amazing levels of Based

Jake Anbinder @JakeAnbinder

Biden leaking that Breyer was planning to retire to force Breyer to retire would be the ultimate LBJ move https://t.co/MN3r30RcLN

DoNotCondescendToHat @Popehat

"Your Honor, Jesus already died for Rep. Cawthorn's sins. Including insurrection. So it would be double jeopardy to punish him."

Josh Marshall @joshtpm

I'm amazed that they're going this route. Cawthorn's lawyer: "Congress passed the 1872 Amnesty Act, which removed all persons whatsoever from the disability under Section 3 as a result of engaging in an insurrection or rebellion." https://t.co/IylVYgd6h0 via @TPM

Jamie Dissent @JamesDissent

@joshtpm @scalzi Imagine arguing that a statute enacted in 1872 to grant amnesty to those who took up arms against the country during the Civil War actually applies prospectively, such that anyone who ever goes to war against the U.S. also can run for office later, no problem!

Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇 @Noahpinion

Map of planned high-speed rail vs. map of actual high-speed rail

Eli Dourado @elidourado

The 2009 stimulus put $8 billion into high-speed rail, which hasn’t resulted in any high-speed rail after 13 years. It costs infinity dollars per mile to build high-speed rail in the US.

Julia Galef @juliagalef

2) The Lancet letter made an argument of the form, "There is NO reason to believe X!" ... whereas the global warming petition made an argument of the form "There IS reason to believe X!" I think scientists are more willing to mislead in the former way than the latter way