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The Professor of Political science and former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul is another supporter of the foreign policy of Biden and Harris. He expresses this support in the substack that he writes and that is entitled "McFaul's World.' In reviewing the argument that McFaul makes I have discovered it to be based the cognitive error of mistaking a "complex" physical system for a "non-complex" physical system in the construction of a model of this system, where a "complex" physical system exhibits one or more "emergent properties'', each of which is a property of the whole system and not of the separate partis of this system whereas a "non-complex" physical system exhibits no such properties. A universidty student learns to make this mistake in studying mathematical statistics and not the altternative to mathematical statistics that is called "entropy minimax pattern discovery." Circa 1986, the late theoretical physicist published a sevent folume treatist on this topiic but it was evidently read by and acted upon by very fiew university professors.

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