Kevin Patrick Murphy @sirbayes · 12 Aug 2026
@sirbayes You do *not* need a mechanistic model to predict the outcome of interventions or even build good theories! Vaccines predate germ theory, the 2nd law of thermo was identified by someone with the wrong model of heat, and QM doesn’t even have a standard mechanistic model
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