The Villains of 2014. (Harmful to the collective).

+ GMO Lobbyists working for Monsanto or others, along with the “sponsored” scientists and, easy to buy/influence, science journos. Likewise companies s.a. Starbucks financing lawsuits against states mandating labelling.

+ EBOLA: Naive empiricists using bogus “empirical” arguments against worrying about Ebola (comparing a fat-tailed multiplicative process to a thin-tailed one). Typically journos or paternalistic “psychologists of risk” with misdefinition of “rationality”.

+ WAHABISTAS: Saudis, Qataris and other Gulf people financing terrorism & religious intolerance.

+ NAIVE EMPIRICISM: Scientists ignorant of statistical methods making statements about an “evidence” they “discovered” that does not match the statistical statements in their own paper made by some statistician who processed data.

via The Villains of 2014. (Harmful to the… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.