Propaganda, or, “Poor Methods Get [Apparent] Results” - Bill Black and Gresham May Recognize This ... As A Familiar Analogy

(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

“Poor Methods Get [Apparent] Results” - aka, “A Lot Of What Is Published Is Incorrect”

Richard Horton richard.horton@lancet.com

Actually, any honest student of orthodox economics, political science and "government studies" may recognize the same. Not just researchers in biomedical sciences.

The key questions?

1) What is to be done?

2) How long do we have? What's the half-life of feedback-based agility recovery in a network expanding faster than its inter-connects?

Does this remind you of ...

a) Innocent Fraud?

b) Control Fraud?

c) Gresham's Dynamic?

d) Responses to Paradigm Shifts?

There are so many possible outcomes, that we have to focus on methods and emerging perceptions of outomes, not just milestone goals.

Aggregate Methods drive aggregate results.
Aggregate results drive aggregate awareness.
Aggregate awareness demands coordinated action.
Coordinated aggregate actions drive aggregate outcomes.
.....;Aggregate outcomes demand changing aggregate methods.

All this allows us "to make a [continuously] more perfect union" ... among our aggregate parts.