Comment by angoragoats

> Many people are in fact claiming the thing you are saying they are not - even if you are not.

My original comment said “no one here.” Please show me where someone in the comments here is claiming that.

> Why the desperation to hang onto the word "prediction"?

No desperation here. It’s just a word that conveniently describes (especially to laypeople) what’s going on, even if it may not be the most mathematically correct or rigorous word to describe what’s going on. I think you’re being needlessly pedantic.

Why the desperation to refute it?