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Now the claim that posting data and reasoned argument gets you in trouble here on Metabunk is one I don't believe. (Feel free to PM me.)

From the AF report:

Didn't see the rising sun just now, therefore can't expect to see the moon

Since the camera is pointing at the surface, you'd need to find the moon rising or setting for it to be near the horizon. For that, you need the camera pointing east or west; right now it seems to be looking northeast. This may be done so the camera does not look directly at the sun; does it do...

I searched the USAF report for the word "tape" and found various witness statements corroborating the excerpts below: I'm not really surprised they couldn't recall the name of the company or produce any tape 50 years later.

plastic-coated foil won't crinkle like plain foil does. or metal-coated plastic foil. greek? handwritten alpha, beta, gamma symbols? (Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Example-of-Isolated-Handwritten-Greek-Characters-from-the-Proposed-Data-Base_fig2_327986248 ) If parts of the foil...

Could you please elaborate on the first part of that quote?

I confirm that in Schneider's paper, equation (1) makes the crushing front faster than the roofline by a constant factor based on the crush-down. Yes. Schneider's theory departs from reality at that point, because the floor collapse happened differently from the column collapse. (We've both...

Well, one is accusing AZ of making false claims, and the other is not; to me, that's a consequence of honor and integrity.

Your statement suggests that AZ said something that is no longer true, my statement does not. As far as I know, everything AZ said (with one of my interpretations of "safe", either 1) compared to placebo, or 2) per government regulations) is still true. That quote is from Monday, and that's...

That wikipedia paragraph is supported by a 2008 article. However, further down on the wikipedia page, we see this: An experimental investigation of this effect, published in 2007, reported producing "luminous balls with lifetime in the order of seconds" by evaporating pure silicon with an...

We're getting some lab data in on how well existing antibodies work on omicron; the answer is "not well". It looks like vaccinations won't help most people not get infected, but they may still help make symptoms less severe - we don't know that yet because you can't find that out in the lab...

In addition to my previous post, please consider this: Let's assume we have 100 UFO sightings, and we know 1 of these sightings is genuine, while the 99 others are not. Does the "circumstantial evidence" for those 99 non-sightings contribute to the evidence for the 1 sighting? None of the...

The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a debater attempts to overwhelm an opponent by excessive number of arguments, without regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments. The main problem with your suggestion is that it's one-sided: if we do as you suggest, we need to...

Find a PDF of that report, post it in the "Open Discussion" subforum, that should do a lot of what you want.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases allows comparisons on a free selection of countries and many different data sets.

The slope on that wave looks scary. With a vaccination rate <30%, your medical system is going to have an intense next two months.

The FAA has confirmed the concerns. The FAA ruled on Tuesday that those thousands of US planes (and some helicopters) won’t be able to use many of the guided and automatic landing systems that are designed to work in poor visibility conditions, if they’re landing at an airport where there’s...

I don't trust the soundtrack at all.

What I am arguing is indeed that the safety of the AZ vaccine never changed (because neither the vaccine nor the dosage or the manufacturing process changed), we simply know more about what that level of safety is than we did initially. Even with the new knowledge, calling the vaccine "safe"...