1. A perennial mistake that folks make is awarding an undeserved objectivity, trustworthiness and/or knowledge in some realm totally distinct from that one in which someone gained celebrity status, awarded by the state media.
Nowhere is this more evident that that awarded to politicians, economists, bureaucrats, and weathermen….and, it seems, doctors.
But awarding same to those nominally known as ‘scientists’ is surely a close second. Biases, preferences, politics and credit card debt all enter ‘scientist’s’ claims as do they any average citizen.
2. Yesterday, the FDA panel voted 17 to 0 to allow the vaccine to little children.
"The 18-member Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, a panel of experts connected to the FDA, was asked to vote yes or no on whether members believed the vaccine was safe and effective for children ages 5-11 based on the data presented to them by Pfizer, as well as the FDA and the CDC, during the nearly nine-hour meeting.
Several members expressed concern that they couldn’t give a more nuanced answer to the yes-or-no question they were being asked to vote on: Whether the vaccine is safe and effective for all kids ages 5 to 11.
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Some have likened them to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) statement that Congress had “to pass [Obamacare] so that you can find out what’s in it.” Others have suggested the authorization would be akin to turning children into guinea pigs."
4. And Eisenhower's warning has come to pass:
"During the 1961 address, in which the president famously warned of the danger to the nation of a growing armaments industry referred to as a “military-industrial complex,” he included a few sentences about risks posed by a scientific-technological elite. He noted that the technological revolution of previous decades had been fed by more costly and centralized research, increasingly sponsored by the federal government.
“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields… ,” Eisenhower warned. “Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”
While continuing to respect discovery and scientific research, he said, “We must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
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Nowhere is this more evident that that awarded to politicians, economists, bureaucrats, and weathermen….and, it seems, doctors.
But awarding same to those nominally known as ‘scientists’ is surely a close second. Biases, preferences, politics and credit card debt all enter ‘scientist’s’ claims as do they any average citizen.
2. Yesterday, the FDA panel voted 17 to 0 to allow the vaccine to little children.
"The 18-member Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, a panel of experts connected to the FDA, was asked to vote yes or no on whether members believed the vaccine was safe and effective for children ages 5-11 based on the data presented to them by Pfizer, as well as the FDA and the CDC, during the nearly nine-hour meeting.
Several members expressed concern that they couldn’t give a more nuanced answer to the yes-or-no question they were being asked to vote on: Whether the vaccine is safe and effective for all kids ages 5 to 11.
FDA panel recommends approval of the Pfizer vaccine for kids ages 5-11. Here's what that means for Texans.
The move opens the door to emergency use approval by the FDA. In Texas, about 2.9 million children would be newly eligible if that happens.
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3. "An FDA adviser said we need to give kids vaccines to fully understand their safety.
“we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is unless we start giving it.”Some have likened them to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) statement that Congress had “to pass [Obamacare] so that you can find out what’s in it.” Others have suggested the authorization would be akin to turning children into guinea pigs."
4. And Eisenhower's warning has come to pass:
"During the 1961 address, in which the president famously warned of the danger to the nation of a growing armaments industry referred to as a “military-industrial complex,” he included a few sentences about risks posed by a scientific-technological elite. He noted that the technological revolution of previous decades had been fed by more costly and centralized research, increasingly sponsored by the federal government.
“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields… ,” Eisenhower warned. “Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”
While continuing to respect discovery and scientific research, he said, “We must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
After 50 Years, Eisenhower’s Warnings Against a Scientific Elite Still Cause Consternation
At the dawn of the scientific revolution ushered in by the Space Age, was President Dwight D. Eisenhower wary of growing government influence over science and technology, seeing a potential danger this posed to future innovation? On the 50th anniversary of his farewell address to the nation...
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