People often try to derail debates by arguing about the definition of a word. I'm not interested in such.
The government tries to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand all the time. Unsuccessfully. A while ago, a good friend of mine asked me what would happen to jobs if the minimum wage was raised. I said the number of jobs would go down. He said "aha! here's a study that proved that the jobs increased!" I said I don't need to read it, because the researchers goofed.
Some years later, the study was retracted because it was flawed.
It was like a story on HackerNews some years back that made a claim that electric cars were 90% efficient. I knew that was hokum right off the bat. But I still had people with PhD's in engineering saying it was true.
The car loses 10% just in losses in the battery, let alone anything else.
So I did some research on the author. Seems it was a person without a degree in physics or engineering who worked at a ski resort.
The government tries to repeal the Law of Supply and Demand all the time. Unsuccessfully. A while ago, a good friend of mine asked me what would happen to jobs if the minimum wage was raised. I said the number of jobs would go down. He said "aha! here's a study that proved that the jobs increased!" I said I don't need to read it, because the researchers goofed.
Some years later, the study was retracted because it was flawed.
It was like a story on HackerNews some years back that made a claim that electric cars were 90% efficient. I knew that was hokum right off the bat. But I still had people with PhD's in engineering saying it was true.
The car loses 10% just in losses in the battery, let alone anything else.
So I did some research on the author. Seems it was a person without a degree in physics or engineering who worked at a ski resort.