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2020-10-05 -Land of the Free

The Unscientific Attacks on the Science of Dr. Scott Atlas

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Posted by 746 2020-10-05 00:33|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#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|| 2020-10-05 02:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-05 06:01|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-05 06:07|| Front Page Top

#4 ^It doesn't even mean that they're always wrong.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-05 06:12|| 2020-10-05 06:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-05 06:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-05 07:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-10-05 07:29|| Front Page Top

#8 COVID is politics not a pandemic

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-10-05 08:13|| 2020-10-05 08:13|| Front Page Top

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