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| The Unscientific Attacks on the Science of Dr. Scott Atlas |
| 2020-10-05 |
| [NationalReview] The news media until recently had rarely criticized the medical advice of experts — especially those who worked for federal bureaucracies, international organizations, or elite universities. Yet the much-praised Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, has demonstrably weakened the effort to fight COVID-19. During the critical initial weeks of the virus’s spread, Tedros parroted Chinese propaganda. He falsely assured a complacent world that the virus was probably not transmissible between humans and did not warrant travel bans. The fact that Tedros was the first WHO director not to have a medical degree was seldom cited by the media. |
| Posted by:746 |
| #8 COVID is politics not a pandemic |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-10-05 08:13 |
| #7 it's just likely, like the lockdown mistake, that they're extremely wrong and intervention makes things worse. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-10-05 07:29 |
| #6 Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite. The man they always fall back upon concerning the "military industrial complex" also clearly, but largely ignored, warned about where we are now. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-10-05 07:28 |
| #5 True, not always, but with their ideas of global warming and al-Gore and that NYC should have been under water by now (their "science"), I know where I am putting my money. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-10-05 06:23 |
| #4 ^It doesn't even mean that they're always wrong. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-05 06:12 |
| #3 That's binary thinking Clem. Just because their side are a herd of pigs, doesn't mean your side is right. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-05 06:07 |
| #2 One look at what the Left pushes as "science" tells me all I need to know. |
| Posted by: Clem 2020-10-05 06:01 |
| #1 Atlas has had a distinguished career as one of world’s top neuroradiologists Why would anybody attack, say, a green beret - for telling admirals how to run aircraft carriers? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-10-05 02:39 |