Ben Hardisty, PhD
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Ben Hardisty, PhD
@TomHardyofmath
Data mining on a scale you can't begin to fathom at Unknowm. Lover of 🥐☕️🐶 #useR #Rstats #maths #T1D @UofUmedicine

When Copernicus proposed heliocentrism in 1543, it was actually less accurate than Ptolemy's geocentric model - a system refined over 1,400 years with epicycles precisely tuned to match observed planetary positions. It took another 70 years before Kepler, working from Tycho Brahe's unprecedentedly precise observations, replaced Copernicus’s circles with ellipses - finally making heliocentrism empirically superior. Terence Tao's point is that science needs a high temperature setting. If we only fund and follow what's most state of the art today, we kill the ideas that might need decades of work to surpass some overall plateau.

COVID, measles, meningitis… can we skip to the part where we clean the air we breathe?






American Civil War (1861 Colorized)

We’re honored to announce MLB has named Polymarket as their Exclusive Prediction Market Exchange Partner. Polymarket 🤝 MLB

BREAKING: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski just filed to change the SAVE America Act exempting anyone born before 1961 from proving their citizenship.

Iran publicly executes a teen champion wrestler for participating in protests against the Khamenei regime. tmz.me/S0UJCid

Iran executes 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings trib.al/E63jG1q

1/ A researcher spent 2 years studying liver cancer biology. Published 3 papers. Then discovered the "liver cancer" cell line was actually HeLa -- a cervical cancer line that contaminated their stock decades ago. Those papers? Retracted.

IF I COULD GO BACK… I would NEVER vaccinate my kids. I knew the COVID shot was dangerous. I refused it. Dr. Peter McCullough says the exact same: He wouldn’t vaccinate himself or his kids. “A healthy child today is better off with ZERO vaccines."














