you need to “trust the science!’
We are indeed seeing “the death of expertise.” But it wasn’t a murder, it was a suicide. When an “expert” says something, I first ask whether that actually is within the realm of their competence. Then I look at what reasoning they have provided.
It’s easy when the direction is “You need to get these lab panels.” It is MUCH different when it is, “I know there has never been a been any problem. but you need to get rid of your guns and vote Democrat.”
to see this happening. mRNA is quite literally of the devil. It spreads death and misery. No thanks on my part.
And don’t give me any crap about just being “anti-vaccine.” Because I am most certainly not. I am just against mRNA vaccines! But I am amenable to data. Show me the data!
Besides, how amazing unlikely am I to ever come in contact with bird flu?
The terminated contracts include $590 million awarded on January 17, 2025 under the Biden administration “to accelerate the development of mRNA-based pandemic influenza vaccines and enhance mRNA platform capabilities” and $176 million awarded in 2024 to “complete late-stage development and testing of a pre-pandemic mRNA-based vaccine against the H5N1 avian influenza.”
… “The mRNA gene therapy platform, as demonstrated by the multiple toxicities of the COVID-19 shots, is fundamentally unsafe and should be removed from use altogether,” Baker said.
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.
It’s really good for you!
Oh, and they will also tell you how awesome solar power is, too…
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>
the truth!
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!
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.
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!
the scientific literature is unbelievable. And quite dangerous! The drive to get published and get tenure may quite literally get people killed.