News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a stunning reveal, Dr. Fauci has appeared on camera in an ornate and funny hat, and is now declaring himself the “Pope of Science.”
“Look at my shiny hat! Woooo-ooo! I have been chosen by science to speak on behalf of science!” said Pope Fauci. “My very words are as infallible as the natural laws of the universe itself! If anyone doesn’t like me, or disagrees with anything I say, or makes fun of my glasses, they will be excommunicated—banished to everlasting darkness.”
Fauci’s eyes then rolled back in his head as he began uttering in a dead ancient Sumerian language.
Fauci has appointed Greta Thunberg as his high priestess of Earth, President Xi Jinping as his priest of infectious diseases, and 3,200 Pfizer lobbyists as agents to administer the sacrament of the vaccine.
Go here to read the rest. There is no greater sin against science than to attempt to turn it into a religion which may not be questioned. Fauci is a living testament as to much of what is being pushed as science in the public square is actually barely disguised scientism. Go here to read about scientism. When a method to discover facts about the natural world becomes an idol to which unquestioning obedience must be paid we are too close for comfort to Churchill’s dire prediction, —–will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.
I think he slipped. This is what he tells himself every time he looks in the mirror in the morning.
“I am the science…”
“I am the science…”
He is simply another cog in the “We Lie To You” oligarchy.
And, when they have to say it’s ‘science’ it ain’t science.
So, OBEY!
We don’t hear any science on climate, all we hear is narrative.
The oceans cover 70% of the earth’s surface, average depth 12,000 feet. What is the effective absorption of CO2 in the ocean?
Sunlight produces water vapor in the atmosphere which reflects heat back into space. What is the effective amount of reflection?
I haven’t heard any serious discussion, it’s all narrative narrative narrative narrative narrative.
30 Nov 2021, Instapundit; THE NU/XI/OMICRON SCARIANT – “Mass vaccination for an illness that causes fatigue and a slight cough for a few days seems a bit over the top if the current assessment holds. Still, the coverage appears to breathlessly hope that the new variant is still dangerous to the elderly to justify their authoritarian biosecurity state.”
“If you missed the news on natural immunity, you’re not alone. The news broke during the busy Thanksgiving holiday, allowing outlets like CNN to publish on Thanksgiving Day when many people (including Yours Truly!) don’t bother reading the news.”
With 70% to 80% of Americans having been administered ‘effective’ vaccines, as of 23 Nov 2021 US COVID-19 deaths (386,233) exceeded all 2020 COVID-19 deaths (385,814), CDC. During the 2020 election campaign, when 352,000 Americans had died of COVID, Biden [speaking at a rally with 8 nitwits attending] said Trump [AND why not Fauci, too?] should resign. Let’s go Brandon!
WS: Re: The China virus AND Climate alarmism.
The Green New Deal and mass vaccinations: The leftists’ plot to impoverish the middle class and enrich favored billionaires (environmentalism and big Pharma): “Nothing in American politics is more corrupt than the environmental movement. . . . It’s all about money. Money for the politically connected, at your expense.
Never Yet Melted blog, “How do you brainwash the poorly-scientifically-informed masses into accepting claims of imminent climate catastrophe for which we are all to blame by indulging in the various comforts and conveniences served up by modern industrial civilization?
“You do it by subjecting them to a continual barrage of entirely suppositious scare stories alluding to an endless series of untoward consequences that may, perhaps, possibly, arrive very soon if you fail to bow to the Luddite dismantle-modern-life-and-go-back-to-the-Middle-Ages agenda and surrender vastly more money and regulatory authority to International Statism.”
Take away “reason and accountability”…
Move over Fauci, somewhere there’s an Artificial Intelligence (AI) with mysterious holy algorithms achieving consciousness..
“I am the Climate Science.”
I got halfway through the Fauci video and stopped. The man has been a govt bureaucrat for a half century. Outside a 2 year internship in a hospital in Taxachusetts, he has had ZERO actual practitioner experience in medicine. All he can do is be a govt flunky. Another worthless useless piece of govt excrement, a leach on the public treasury, and after having financed the lab in Wuhan, China that made the Corona virus, a traitor to nation and humanity. He ought to be tried for treason and crimes against humanity, and when found guilty, given the punishment mandated in Genesis 9:6.
This isn’t even the first time that he’s said that any criticism of Fauci is criticism of “The Science.”
https://nypost.com/2021/06/21/fauci-attacks-on-him-are-actually-criticizing-science/
But given that he’s both a narcissist and a pathological liar, this shouldn’t be surprising.
Jesus christ, y’all have COMPLETELY missed that the Babylon Bee is a SATIRE website. Y’all need to check yourselves, because this is truly embarrassing. Nothing that the Babylon Bee reports is real news, it’s like the Onion, and they make that evidently clear. And it SHOULD be evidently clear from the actual text of the article, that this is all ridiculous. And it’s frankly astonishing to me that everyone on THIS website cannot fathom the slightest hint of satire! good grief.
Thanks DN for completely missing the point. Have any more burning insights like water being wet or fire being hot?
It’s science vs “Science.” And from my experience teaching pre-meds and as an MRI physicist at a Level 3 hospital, MD’s are engineers not scientists. They understand technology–i.e. medicine as a collection of data–but as a rule (i.e there are exceptions) they are foggy about the scientific method, statistics and probability.
As someone who has taught pre-med students, I would honestly be shocked if even 5% of the students completing such programs could explain the difference between the statements “A implies B” and “A is implied by B.”
they are foggy about the scientific method, statistics and probability.
One thing you learn if you go through the cancer treatment mangle is that physicians and surgeons are not actuaries and don’t think like them.
Outside a 2 year internship in a hospital in Taxachusetts, he has had ZERO actual practitioner experience in medicine.
My question would be when was the last paper published under his name on which he did any actual work? Some years back, Martin Peretz wrote a commentary on Nannerl Keohane, who had been president succesively of Wellesley College and Duke University. (It was Keohane who installed Wm. Chafe as provost, who used his influence to ruin the arts and sciences faculty at Duke). He noted that her last monograph had been published 26 years earlier. (“She’s a dignitary, not a scholar”). I come across precis of Dr. Atlas account of what it was like to debate Fauci, Birx, and Redfield and I wonder if he’s been an administrator so long he’s forgotten how to assess papers, if he’s an administrator because he lost interest in research, and if he’s been in the position he’s held for 37 years because he’s much better at office politics than anything else.
“They’re questioning the science”… well duh, that’s what you do with science. YOU ASK QUESTIONS. If you’re not allowed to question the science, then it’s no longer science!
Nekofanatic, lots of quotes from Richard Feynman (Physics Nobelist) make your point:
1. “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
2. “Don’t pay attention to “authorities,” think for yourself.”
3. If you thought that science was certain – well, that is just an error on your part.”
and many more from “The Quotable Feynman.”