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50 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Mar \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon
And when things were grounded in science, like decades of research showing that masks don't reduce spread of respiratory viruses or all the evidence of adverse effects of the vaccines, the "Follow the Science" people would flip out.
It really came as no surprise to me, since I had been doing work in climate science long before Covid and I was very familiar with these "Pro Science" folks.
I have come to the conclusion that the paid-to-play scientists are perhaps better classified as court jesters or court historians. They work for the nobles, not for the ”science”! We get better results from people working as far away from the state as possible, and not in state crony companies, either.
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That's not even remotely in doubt. Unfortunately, pretty much the entire science industry is closely tied to the state.
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I think there are a lot of researchers in private industry, perhaps more than in the state institutions like universities and three-lettered agencies. I also think that there is a big new paradigm coming that will make all of the state and many company researchers defunct due to impossibly incorrect theories. Somebody has been steering us wrong for more than 150 years!
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"Follow the science" was really just code for "Follow the three-letter agencies."
Not even "follow the experts" because there were plenty of experts, like Jay Battacharaya and Scott Atlas taking the other side during COVID.
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"Follow the science" was really just code for "Follow the three-letter agencies."
That is very clever as well as very true. I hope Trump does to the three-letter agencies what Kennedy wanted to do to the clowns in america.
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Literally the guy who invented mRNA vaccines was warning about the vaccines and the developers of PCR tests were saying they were unreliable when used the way they were being used.
It was a cartoonish display of subservience.
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Perhaps greed for the big money rather than just subservience! However, there was a lot of knee-bending going on, almost as much or, even, more, as the knee-bending going on by the universities to the administration, right now. I guess that there are congenital knee-benders all around us!
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