Made partly by our old buddy Rick Delano.

A Concise Overview of the Media Barrage Against The Principle Documentary

http://www.theprinciplemovie.com/concise-overview-media-hoax-principle-documentary/

Copernicus and Galileo were wrong! The sun is the center of the universe!

We are laughing at you.

From Wikipedia: "The film is narrated by Kate Mulgrew and features scientists such as Lawrence M. Krauss and Michio Kaku. Mulgrew and many of the scientists who were interviewed have since repudiated the ideas advanced in the film and have alleged that their involvement was the result of being misled by the filmmaker."

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the chain of events that led to us could have been very very unlikely.

Yes, they could have been. There is much uncertainty. The relevant principles are called laws of probability for a reason.

Thank you, shucks, I hoped you had something juicy and relatively unknown about Dirac! He is still interesting reading though.
Good point: if I recall correctly, the Fermi thingie was originally the "Fermi Question", literally "So where are they?" while he was a guest at an observatory. It is only a paradox if you were expecting "them" to be more in evidence.

Typo: I meant to type "Drake prayer", a tongue-in-cheekery reference to the Drake "equation." I shall go back and correct it.

Your rephrase seems okay; though I would call it a paradox only insofar as you took the Drake "equation" seriously.

What theories may or may not apply, statistically or otherwise, cannot be determined until you know the nature of the data to which you wish to apply them, how that data was collected, what those data points ("the numbers") actually are, etc. Otherwise, NINO (nonsense in, nonsense out).
Or we might also say PMDCB ("purple monkey dishwasher cuz Bayes")

Not a problem, actually. Bayes's theorem can deal with nonrandom sampling.

As long as you have a probability distribution? Please give an example.
But that wasn't really my point. Any observation that we can make from earth on any of the probabilities will be biased. This whole discussion presupposes intelligent life (us), so the chain of events that led to us could have been very very unlikely.

YOS, I cannot find any reference online to "Dirac prayer". Perhaps you could post about that at tofspot for us?

Also, would you agree that the "Fermi paradox" could be stated something like "In the Drake equation, why does N seem to be observed as zero."