Category: Anti-scientific stance

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Anti-scientific stance Evil

Yeah, that is

pretty dang obvious! And some of us knew it early in the process. We knew after around four months, yet the crap went on for more than two years!

Cholan admitted he has chosen not to receive the latest COVID vaccine boosters, citing mixed evidence of their efficacy: “I haven’t gotten the latest COVID shots, and I’m not going to… there’s mixed evidence about if it really does anything.” He also expressed concerns over the risks the vaccine poses to younger individuals, saying, “For people that are 30 or under, it really increases your risk for heart conditions. The data does show that… I’m close enough to 30 to where I don’t want to have a heart attack.”

Cholan further questioned the vaccines’ effectiveness, stating, “I don’t even know if these vaccines stop you from getting COVID. They don’t.”

Huh. The more that time goes by, the worse and worse this all looks!

BUT, we need to recall just how punitive government was toward anyone or any organization that expressed even the mildest doubts about the “party line.” People were fired, threatened with jail, property seized, and so forth.

So MANY people and organizations had to make a tough decision: Resist and lose jobs and property, or reluctantly go along while resisting where possible and wait for this crap to subside.

Situations differ. What may have been the right call for one person or organization may not have been the right call for another. It was a dangerous time all the way around.

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Anti-scientific stance LOL!

Be a vegan!

It’s really good for you!

Oh, and they will also tell you how awesome solar power is, too…

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Anti-scientific stance Basic Economics Lefty Violence

The short answer:

Yes. And it shows in undeniable fashion how much better Conservative economic policies are to Leftist ones. And I think THAT is why Lefties hate Milei so much–he has proved them wrong, and it is just no longer deniable.

Despite these warnings, Milei delivered his “shock therapy” plan in the first few months of his presidency. Tens of thousands of state workers were cut as were more than half of government ministries, including the Ministry of Culture, as well as the Ministries of Labor, Social Development, Health, and Education (which Milei dubbed “the Ministry of Indoctrination”). Numerous government subsidies were eliminated, and the value of the peso was cut in half.

… Contrary to the dire predictions, the results of Milei’s policies have been better than even many of his supporters had dared hope.

The unquestionable FACT is that Lefty, Keynesian policies are just total crapola. They don’t work. In fact, they make things worse. The simple reality is that you can’t spin gold from straw, no matter how hard Keynesians “spin.”

Yet Adam Smith once noted that the formula for prosperity is surprisingly simple, and it doesn’t contain government “stimulus”: just “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.”

Why does Argentina get a Milei and we don’t? It’s just not fair! <stomps foot>

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Anti-scientific stance Bad Faith

Boy, ain’t THAT

the truth!

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Anger Anti-scientific stance Evil

REALLY!?

Oh, so NOW you admit?

Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top adviser to two presidential administrations during the COVID-19 pandemic, reversed course in a Tuesday interview and agreed that shutting down schools for more than a year due to the virus was a “mistake” — while also arguing the initial decision to close classrooms was correct.

“Keeping it for a year was not a good idea,” the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) told “CBS Mornings” co-host Tony Dokoupil while talking about his new memoir “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service.”

Yeah, OF COURSE he doesn’t want to use that word:

“I don’t want to use the word ‘mistake,’” Fauci told ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl in an October 2022 interview when asked about school closures after announcing his retirement as both White House chief medical adviser and NIAID director.

It was despotism all the way down, dontcha know!

In testimony this year before the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Fauci revealed that the six-feet social distancing guidelines had no scientific backing — and was “not convinced” they led to learning loss.

“It sort of just appeared. I don’t recall,” he told the panel in a January interview of the mandate that scrapped most in-person learning options. “Just an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data or even data that could be accomplished.”

Sort of just appeared? HOLY CRAP! “Empiric?” You’re using that word wrong! Deliberately. There is no such thing as an “empiric” decision not based on data! If it is not based on data, it is, by definition, NOT EMPIRIC!

This weasel should be in prison!

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Anti-scientific stance Barbaric! Epistemology

Amazing!

Just amazing! And not in a good way, either.

All the paper’s authors agreed to retract, save Lesné, who has been under investigation for manipulating data. 

What makes this retraction so significant is that it has driven research into Alzheimer’s treatments for nearly two decades, and treatment approaches based on its conclusions have failed to yield results. 

If the hypothesis that amyloid protein buildups cause Alzheimer’s symptoms is wrong, Lesné is responsible for perhaps billions of wasted research dollars and two decades of scientists following a false lead. 

And immeasurable human suffering. I mean, is my dad dead because of what she did?

MANY bedrock social psychology studies have recently been shown to be fraudulent–the foundational studies we all learned. Milgram. Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. More currently, the “scientists” at the CDC and elsewhere who totally fabricated data in order to push a political agenda. And now this. Wow. 

Folks, we need reliable data upon which we can base decisions! And to find out that this fraud runs so amazingly deep is more than a bit discouraging. It means that we don’t actually know what we think we know. 

It is a crisis of epistemology. And it is head-spinning. 

I think we are seeing now how important morality is in Science. Because without morality, there actually is no knowledge. 

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Anti-scientific stance DUH! Evil Clown

Oh, you don’t

say!

Dr. Anthony Fauci said in congressional testimony that he reviewed no scientific evidence behind the specific recommendations for masking children or maintaining 6-foot social distancing before advocating these policies during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

… Fauci also acknowledged in the interview that vaccine mandates during the pandemic have contributed to diminished trust in vaccination overall.

Let’s just be clear: The 6-foot distancing crap was a coercive pipe dream, and the COVID “vaccines” were not vaccines at all–they neither prevented getting the illness, nor did they prevent transmission. And there were catastrophic side effects. The arrows on the floor at Walmart were a sick and coercive joke.

Look, don’t get me wrong–I am a fan of real vaccines. But I think the evidence is quite clear that the clot shot is NOT a vaccine at all! At best it is a failed and dangerous attempt at a vaccine. And the motives of some behind this are highly questionable!

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Anti-scientific stance

The fraud in

the scientific literature is unbelievable. And quite dangerous! The drive to get published and get tenure may quite literally get people killed.

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Anti-scientific stance Bad Faith Dishonesty

Oh!

Is that so?

“Rather than journals being a wealth of information and opinions about the novel virus, of which we knew so little, they helped establish a party line that literally put a chilling effect on scientific research” on COVID origins and scientific communication, Wenstrup said.

It’s long. Read it all. And weep. Or get angry. Or both.

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Anti-scientific stance Epistemology

See, I think Academia

is in some serious trouble. Once people start honestly fact-checking, there is very likely to be many, if not most, researchers who are in fact guilty of Academic fraud. And THAT scares the crap out of Professors!

So Academia as a whole is scared, and rightly so. Because so dang many of them took a scientific shortcut to fame and fortune. Leaving epistemological squalor in their wake.

And it’s not a new thing. No, not by a long shot. I am a psychologist. And MANY of the seminal, ground-breaking experiments at the very heart of psychology were… faked. I learned about them as a student, and taught them myself as a professor. And they were faked–the Stanford Prison experiment, Milgram’s electric shocks, lots of it. And these were bread-and-butter staples of psych 101!

But suddenly people are (rightly) becoming very skeptical. They are (again, rightly) less impressed by credentials, soi-disant expertise, and “scientific findings,” etc. MANY famous studies just can’t be replicated–and you wonder why. Well, I guess we know why now…

And it’s NOT just psychology–that is just what I personally am most familiar with. Nutrition is another area that is more than a bit sketchy in that way. Even some medical “science” is more wish-fulfillment, hide-bound-ness, fear-mongering, and profit-seeking than fact (see: COVID “vaccines”).

The solution? Honest science. Show your work. Independent replication. Time. True peer review. These things are actually in place, it’s just that they have been bastardized, bowdlerized, and corrupted.

I trust reviewed and replicated science. Humans? Not so much…