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"Imbeciles" on Twitter Continue to Distract Nassim Taleb

November 26, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in Uncategorized | 7 comments

Those of you familiar with Black Swan author Nassim Taleb know he has a formidable mind and an abrasive public persona. It is necessary to separate the two when analyzing his logic, which is what economist/writer Noah Smith does admirably in his Bloomberg column on Taleb’s controversial GMO paper. (More on Smith’s take in a minute.)… https://thebonehealthclinic.com/about-us/ Continue Reading…

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Why is Nassim Taleb So Venomous on Twitter?

November 1, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biotechnology, GMOs, science, science communication | 37 comments

https://tajschoolofhealth.com/about-us/ Watching Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and other books, engage on twitter, is like being ringside at a verbal boxing match with the intellectual equivalent of Clubber Lang, the snarling, contemptuous boxer played by Mr. T in Rocky 3. In the movie, Clubber Lang was so mean and nasty the performance was almost a… Continue Reading…

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The Precautionary Principle & GMOs

June 28, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in biotechnology, GMOs | 50 comments

Via Twitter, I learn that Nassim Taleb, author of the The Black Swan, a mega-selling 2007 book, has some interesting thoughts on biotechnology.