I was going to start a two-part post on the Kimmel suspension, but given the news, I though I'd hold off

West Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more) 2025-09-22

I work remotely so this probably wouldn't be as effective.

Apparently on Christian tiktok they're predicting a rapture on Tuesday. So I'm going in to work early, laying out an outfit of clothing in my office and pretending it got me.

— Elle (@elleisanisland.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM

I share your inclination to be skeptical, but it can't be a coincidence that this comes exactly a week after Peter Thiel's “off-the-record” lecture where he suggests that Greta Thunberg is the biblical Antichrist. (You think I'm joking, but I'm not.)