Comment by Philipp Markolin

Now reducing human biases and providing aid to reasoning are certainly lofty goals one can and ought to agree with. But the devil is, as often, in the details and implementation. How it works: Rootclaim defines basically a set of hypotheses, then takes all available evidence and groups them into evidence clusters (evidence that is conditionally dependent on each other is in the same cluster, whereas independent evidence would be in a new cluster) and then runs the probabilistic numbers to “update their priors”. [...] Even for a scientific question such as to the origin of SARS-CoV-2, he believes his epistemological approach more reliable than anything else, including the scientific method. And that is where the trouble started for him.