fake data and a quarter were purely fabricated. Purely fabricated, meaning that there wasn't any data at all. They literally just made it up. Sometimes they faked some data on top of the real data and other times they just made it up.

And so how many of you have made the mistake that I have and I would like to flog myself and throw myself at the mercy of the court? Because I too am a person who has said in public, "Well, this one's a randomized control trial, so I guess you can trust that one, huh?" I apologize for ever misleading you. A randomized control trial is only as good as the data you put into it, and they don't check the data. I mean, typically nobody's checking the data. Even if it's a peer-reviewed study, they're only going to check the reasoning. They're not going to reproduce the data and see if they use the wrong data. That's not part of the peer review.

So if you believed that science was a little bit sketchy, if it's just anecdotal, you know, just people looking at stuff, it's a little bit sketchy if they do a meta-analysis where you take all these bad studies and you see if there's any kind of weird average that you could conclude. That's not the best way to know what's true. And so you're thinking, but if only we could have more randomized control trials. Well, then we'd know what's going on, right? Nope. It turns out the science is so corrupt that you can't even trust a randomized control trial.

And the fact that only this year is when I first started to suspect this because I saw an example of it. I think it involved the vaccinations. There was a case where there was a randomized control trial, but they decided to throw away the data from the first two weeks or something. Now, if you're the peer reviewer, you just say, "All right, this matches the data. It's an analysis. Good enough." But if you knew that they had to throw away the first part of the data to get the result that they wanted, you would say, "Wait a minute, there's a way to game these randomized control trials just by where you start the data and what data you put in there." And you get to use your assumptions. Oh, well, I should take this data out because there's a reason that only I understand why it should not be included. And then you can reverse the outcome of the study. So don't trust your randomized controlled trials.

Well according to Interesting Engineering the world's first laser armed tank has been produced out of Turkey and it's a tank that can jam drones and then use its laser to zap them. So I think the jamming is only half the job. They also want to laser them out of the sky. So I told you that we're heading toward a robot only war in Ukraine and Russia on the front lines at least just the front lines would be the robots only. And this might be part of that. So there's going to be this neverending race between the drone superiority and the anti-drone defenses. So that's getting interesting.

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