Ivor Cummins has been wrong (or lying) almost entirely throughout this pandemic and got paid handsomly for it.

He has been wrong (or lying) so often that it will be nearly impossible for me to track every grift, lie, deceit, manipulation he has pulled. I will use...

... other sources who have been trying to shine on light on this grifter (as I have tried to do, time and again: https://t.co/bHYdxxmwp9)
Example #1: "Still not seeing Sweden signal versus Denmark really"... There it was (Images attached).
19 to 80 is an over 300% difference.

Tweet: https://t.co/36FnYnsRT9
Example #2 - "Yes, I'm comparing the Noridcs / No, you cannot compare the Nordics."

I wonder why...

Tweets: https://t.co/XLfoX4rpck / https://t.co/vjE1ctLU5x
Example #3 - "I'm only looking at what makes the data fit in my favour" a.k.a moving the goalposts.

Tweets: https://t.co/vcDpTu3qyj / https://t.co/CA3N6hC2Lq
Example #4 - "You need to look at all the varibles, but I don't"

Tweet: https://t.co/gQs2G0pFCF
Video: https://t.co/4mpZKXIgKQ
Final graph with all restrictions for Ireland @StuartDNeilson
Examples #5-#18 - https://t.co/G3MrMT7DMT

various goalpost shifting, ignorance of facts, logic, data, science

h/t @jocami_ca
Example #19 - "I'm going to include that study even though I don't know what it says" (see some of previous tweets examples)

https://t.co/JjvZfNAxgp
^ Ivor's theme of Lockdowns don't work, don't match the papers' findings.
https://t.co/CatJd5PV3H
https://t.co/7EcJnkfFXK ---
Example #20 - Spreading misinformation from a right-wing anti-vaccine group spokesperson

Ivor's widespread video debunked: https://t.co/7EcJnkfFXK
source video: https://t.co/Pq4u5RgMS7

Image source: https://t.co/ES3RwshHs5
Example #21 - "You're talking about selective lockdown. It doesn't work! / Let's do that thing that doesn't work! People dying never felt so good!"

Tweets: https://t.co/gNhNLOc5wB / https://t.co/m3o46KTH21

Great Barrington Declaration debunked: https://t.co/gP8fxSAvH2...
... #21 contd - https://t.co/a7HugHEqHN, https://t.co/dniFp8nMaS, https://t.co/ATrsr2ZBd2, https://t.co/EbwujUFmeg, https://t.co/B9joA2xUUz ---
Example #22 - "We are in a casedemic! / Uh oh! I was wrong... That was a creature of the Summer! / Uh oh! That still doesn't make any sense!"

Tweets: https://t.co/gNhNLOc5wB / https://t.co/DXJ3QzRj8G

h/t: @greg_travis: https://t.co/sfCKavwCbG ---
Example #23 - "I have never been debunked! Even when I was! I wasn't! Liar Liar Pants On Bloody Fire You Guys!"

Ivor really says that: https://t.co/SAQIrgD6t3

Tweet: https://t.co/cduViTcs3b

@DrDomPimenta debunking Ivor:
https://t.co/zohU0S4aFz,
https://t.co/Ate8UMOVqG ...
... #23 cont. - https://t.co/RzyyQCmx8Y,
https://t.co/HNlZ2o7VFR
https://t.co/GkDOY5PgX9
& as above.

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As the DeFi bull market continues, some brutally honest tips for new founders fundraising in crypto.

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1/ The discount you offer to strategic investors is both to account for the risk of an unlaunched product, but also as compensation for continued value add and support.

So make sure you know the investor will support you and not leave you on read once the docs are signed!

2/ Having someone on your cap table/ token allocation is as important as hiring.

You wouldn't hire someone just because they are influencers on Twitter- you do your reference checks and find evidence of value add from other companies the investor has invested in.

3/ Don't trust, verify.

Many investors will promise you the world when they're trying to get on your cap table.

Talk to founders they backed to see how much of it is bullshit. Ask them about how the investor was there for them during hard times.

4/ Don't just go for "name brand" funds because you want the brand.

Sure, it's great validation, but optimize for fit, not vanity.

However, I do think many well-known VCs are good actors, especially those with roots in successful trad VCs. They have a rep for a reason!

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1. IQ is one of the most heritable psychological traits – that is, individual differences in IQ are strongly associated with individual differences in genes (at least in fairly typical modern environments). https://t.co/3XxzW9bxLE


2. The heritability of IQ *increases* from childhood to adulthood. Meanwhile, the effect of the shared environment largely fades away. In other words, when it comes to IQ, nature becomes more important as we get older, nurture less.
https://t.co/UqtS1lpw3n


3. IQ scores have been increasing for the last century or so, a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect. https://t.co/sCZvCst3hw (N ≈ 4 million)

(Note that the Flynn effect shows that IQ isn't 100% genetic; it doesn't show that it's 100% environmental.)


4. IQ predicts many important real world outcomes.

For example, though far from perfect, IQ is the single-best predictor of job performance we have – much better than Emotional Intelligence, the Big Five, Grit, etc. https://t.co/rKUgKDAAVx https://t.co/DWbVI8QSU3


5. Higher IQ is associated with a lower risk of death from most causes, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, most forms of cancer, homicide, suicide, and accident. https://t.co/PJjGNyeQRA (N = 728,160)