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Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD.: computer algorithm was likely used to transfer 69,000 votes (Michigan

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Dr. Shiva to President Trump, via Twitter...

Our analysis in Michigan indicates a computer algorithm was likely used to transfer 69,000 votes. We are willing to subject our results to a critical & transparent review with your representatives

https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1326595796947656716?s=21

MIT is a place where that SCIENCE stuff happens, right?
 

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Dr. Shiva to President Trump, via Twitter...

Our analysis in Michigan indicates a computer algorithm was likely used to transfer 69,000 votes. We are willing to subject our results to a critical & transparent review with your representatives
https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1326595796947656716?s=21
https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1326595796947656716?s=21

MIT is a place where that SCIENCE stuff happens, right?


It appears that Mr Ayyadurai's reputation is a little suspect.

From his Wiki bio:

V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai (born Vellayappa Ayyadurai Shiva,[2] December 2, 1963)[3] is an Indian-American scientist, engineer, politician, entrepreneur, and promoter of conspiracy theories and unfounded medical claims. He is notable for his widely discredited claim to be the "inventor of email",[4] based on the electronic mail software called "EMAIL" he wrote as a New Jersey high school student in the late 1970s.[5][6] Initial reports that repeated Ayyadurai's assertion—from organizations such as The Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institution—were followed by public retractions.[5][7] These corrections were triggered by objections from historians and ARPANET pioneers who pointed out that email was already actively used in the early 1970s.[3]

Ayyadurai also attracted attention for two reports: the first questioning the working conditions of India's largest scientific agency; the second questioning the safety of genetically modified soybeans. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ayyadurai became known for a social media disinformation campaign about the coronavirus; spreading conspiracy theories about the cause of coronavirus; promoting unfounded COVID-19 treatments; and campaigning to fire Anthony Fauci for allegedly being a so-called "deep state" actor.
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Dr. Shiva to President Trump, via Twitter...

Our analysis in Michigan indicates a computer algorithm was likely used to transfer 69,000 votes. We are willing to subject our results to a critical & transparent review with your representatives
https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1326595796947656716?s=21
https://twitter.com/va_shiva/status/1326595796947656716?s=21

MIT is a place where that SCIENCE stuff happens, right?

This guy makes an offer of his analysis on his twitter feed to be "transparent" but doesn't even present that analysis. If it's ready and real, show it.

This is a pretty wild accusation and no evidence is presented.
 
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I don't want to pick on you personally, OP, but there might be an issue with how you are vetting this person before presenting him here as someone to be listened to because "MIT is a place where that SCIENCE stuff happens." Yes, yes it is, but that doesn't mean that everyone or anyone who has ever been there or been granted a degree there is therefore acting in their capacity as a scientific researcher whenever they say anything about anything.

There's science, and then there's conspiracy theory nonsense. This is in the latter category, whether or not a scientist is saying it. Scientists can be believers in conspiracy theories, after all, and/or (as seems to be the case here) overtaken by their political aspirations and biases.
 
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I don't want to pick on you personally, OP, but there might be an issue with how you are vetting this person before presenting him here as someone to be listened to because "MIT is a place where that SCIENCE stuff happens." Yes, yes it is, but that doesn't mean that everyone or anyone who has ever been there or been granted a degree there is therefore acting in their capacity as a scientific researcher whenever they say anything about anything.

There's science, and then there's conspiracy theory nonsense. This is in the latter category, whether or not a scientist is saying it. Scientists can be believers in conspiracy theories, after all, and/or (as seems to be the case here) overtaken by their political aspirations and biases.

I don’t know the man, I just know he is a PhD from MIT. That usually means something to the "trust the science crowd".
 
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I don’t know the man, I just know he is a PhD from MIT. That usually means something to the "trust the science crowd".

I believe there would have to be actual science involved before it could be trusted or not trusted. :)
 
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I don’t know the man, I just know he is a PhD from MIT. That usually means something to the "trust the science crowd".

When you get claims like this, especially from Twitter, it pays to do a little basic investigation into the background of the person involved. Anybody can claim anything on Twitter.

In this case it took me less than two minutes, searching via Google, to find out that this person had made a number of bogus/suspect claims in the past.

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It certainly should be looked into. If his results stand up to outside scrutiny, then we should examine the full scope of the impact.

At this point, he's made a claim and has not presented the evidence. I'll withhold judgement until evidence is provided. As another poster mentioned, he has made some absurd claims in the past.
 
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And Al Gore invented the internet.

He also helped invent Global Warming, Inc., which has been berry berry good to him (and pretty much everyone else who hawks it professionally). And yet he is highly trusted by many despite not having a PhD from MIT.
 
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But dude - he’s the INVENTOR OF EMAIL.

Don’t you trust the INVENTOR OF EMAIL?

Do not millions trust inventor of the Internet AND Global Warming, Inc., Al Gore? Curiously he does not have a PhD. from MIT.
 
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I don’t know the man, I just know he is a PhD from MIT. That usually means something to the "trust the science crowd".
See, that's the thing about science (and math) and what the "science crowd" thinks about it. It's ALL about the evidence, not necessarily the person discovering it or presenting it. Having a PhD from MIT doesn't make him anymore important than an amateur beach comber finding a new ichthyosaur on the southeast coast of England. It's ALL about the evidence in science (and math) and, so far, none has been presented.
 
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