They say "may" because correlation =\= causation. The summary makes the same mistake that you do:

No. The authors have found a correlation between green spaces and IQ, and they say as much. To show causation would require a truly herculean decade-long longitudinal study involving somehow controlling where the children live.

This does not imply that attempting to censor Facebook about the subject is not a left/right thing. One can be outraged at Holocaust denial, and also be against enacting legislation that censors speech on that (or any other) topic.

We should stop teaching reading riting and rithmetic in elementary, middle and high school, too, and just go ahead and teach em to hook up an IV. Nurse doesn't need to know history. Why bother having a population that understands anything outside of their tiny bubble? Hate for them to figure out how to be able to do anything besides what they're told.

No. It's that evidence of absence cannot exist, even if "absence" is the true state of affairs. The way to study this problem would be to cough on a thousand pizzas, freeze them, then check them for presence of the virus. If none of them have the virus, you have "absence of evidence that the virus survives freezing". It's not weasel-wording, it's them being honest.

You seem to have misread "unseen" as "unseeable".

I think that the real crux of the distinction is that Goedel's theorems require infinity - an entity which, fortunately for the physicists of our sad finite observable universe, causes a most frightful insanity to any system capable of even basic arithmetic. As soon as infinity is out of reach, then all true statements are provable in the system. Not that the physicists would care, the deuced inductivists!

I have a *very* hard time working from home. I get distracted by the fridge, the game console, the tv, etcetcetc. Unfortunatley, the same thing actually applies to the office When I go into the office, I know I'm not gonna get a single thing done, because so-and-so, whatshisface and loudmouth are gonna talk at me the entire time. A coffee shop OTOH? I'm *way more* productive. Fortunately, I'm in a smallish town, and the coffee shops have literal yards with grass and tables outside with space between, so I can go during the pandemic. I think maybe the phrase "work from home" is just a misnomer. It's really "work where you want". Hell, my phone has wifi, so I make my own coffee and go work in the park sometimes. Also, you may be overestimating the entertainment value of slashdot and/or facebook a smidge.

If you say so. I only comment because your use of the term "statistically significant" in "Only when you will be near ( 10) for a prolonged period of time (> 1 hr) does the effectiveness of medical/surgical masks begin to become statistically medically significant for preventing transmission of COVID-19 from asymptomatic carriers." is nonsensical. It's not even wrong. See my previous comment for an explanation why.

Do you even know what "statistically significant" means? With a large enough sample size, essentially all effects are statistically significant. You heard right... ALL effects. Conversely, with a small enough sample size, no effect is statistically significant. What that means is that you need to interpret the results of any study in the context of the real world. Just because an experiment had people in a room for an hour to produce a "statistically significant" effect size doesn't mean f all for how useful a mask is for people just going in to order a latte.

And yet they are lining up out the door for the opportunity to work for cool points. If they want to get paid, there are plenty of regular soul-crushing uncool jobs out there. Some people would rather chase their dreams than sell out right out of the gate. Let em be.

NewsOutlets:"Mysterious new danger!"
Public:"Oh snap! Ask science, they'll know what to do!"
Science:"That's weird, we'll look into it."
Public:"But we need answers noooooowwwwww"
Science:"Well, [preliminary recommendations]"
*****
Science:"Hey guys, we looked into it..."
Public:"Don't care anymore"
Science:"... and now based on better evidence..."
Public:"Here the scientists go changing their minds again"
Science:"... [better recommendations]"
Public:*throws up hands in exasperation*

Every time. Literally every time. Y'all figure out the next thing on your own see where that gets you.