Got that mask, and vax passport???
1.It certainly reduces your burden when you simply allow others to do your thinking and decision making for you.
During the 19th century, progressivism was born in academia, which posited that there is a sort of individual of a higher level, who would guide the great unwashed.
This is the idea of the ‘administrative state.’
" ... there’s a tendency among bureaucrats, politicians, academics, and other members of the New Class to convince the people to hand over the major decisions of their lives to the “experts.” These experts aren’t all in the government, but they all collude with government to convince people that the experts have all the answers and that the people need to hand the reins over to them. They will tell us what to eat, what to drive, what to think.
It’s an approach that puts politics before economics. Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives.”
Nazis: Still Socialists, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review
It is the doctrine of the administrative state, one run by unelected experts, bureaucrats, technocrats who know what is best for everyone else. These ‘special’ individuals would never make choices designed for their own aggrandizement.
You buyin’ that?
2. Tocqueville warned of it: government- “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
Today, more than ever, it is important to recognize the mistake that folks make in awarding an undeserved objectivity, trustworthiness and/or knowledge in some realm totally distinct from that one in which someone gained celebrity status.
Nowhere is this more evident that that awarded to politicians, economists, bureaucrats, and weathermen. 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.
In a new opinion piece in The BMJ, Richard Smith argues that “the time may have come to stop assuming that research actually happened and is honestly reported, and assume that the research is fraudulent until there is some evidence to support it having happened and been honestly reported.
…data from studies that never actually took place.
“They all had a lead author who purported to come from an institution that didn’t exist and who killed himself a few years later. The trials were all published in prestigious neurosurgery journals and had multiple co-authors. None of the co-authors had contributed patients to the trials, and some didn’t know that they were co-authors until after the trials were published. When Roberts contacted one of the journals the editor responded that ‘I wouldn’t trust the data.’ Why, Roberts wondered, did he publish the trial? None of the trials have been retracted.”
” BMJ: 20% of Health Research Is Fraudulent - Mad In America
While it is far more difficult for the layman to recognize the fraud in science….there is no excuse for still voting Democrat.
1.It certainly reduces your burden when you simply allow others to do your thinking and decision making for you.
During the 19th century, progressivism was born in academia, which posited that there is a sort of individual of a higher level, who would guide the great unwashed.
This is the idea of the ‘administrative state.’
" ... there’s a tendency among bureaucrats, politicians, academics, and other members of the New Class to convince the people to hand over the major decisions of their lives to the “experts.” These experts aren’t all in the government, but they all collude with government to convince people that the experts have all the answers and that the people need to hand the reins over to them. They will tell us what to eat, what to drive, what to think.
It’s an approach that puts politics before economics. Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives.”
Nazis: Still Socialists, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review
It is the doctrine of the administrative state, one run by unelected experts, bureaucrats, technocrats who know what is best for everyone else. These ‘special’ individuals would never make choices designed for their own aggrandizement.
You buyin’ that?
2. Tocqueville warned of it: government- “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
Today, more than ever, it is important to recognize the mistake that folks make in awarding an undeserved objectivity, trustworthiness and/or knowledge in some realm totally distinct from that one in which someone gained celebrity status.
Nowhere is this more evident that that awarded to politicians, economists, bureaucrats, and weathermen. 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.
3. “BMJ: 20% of Health Research Is Fraudulent
Richard Smith: "The time may have come to stop assuming that research actually happened and is honestly reported, and assume that the research is fraudulent.”In a new opinion piece in The BMJ, Richard Smith argues that “the time may have come to stop assuming that research actually happened and is honestly reported, and assume that the research is fraudulent until there is some evidence to support it having happened and been honestly reported.
…data from studies that never actually took place.
“They all had a lead author who purported to come from an institution that didn’t exist and who killed himself a few years later. The trials were all published in prestigious neurosurgery journals and had multiple co-authors. None of the co-authors had contributed patients to the trials, and some didn’t know that they were co-authors until after the trials were published. When Roberts contacted one of the journals the editor responded that ‘I wouldn’t trust the data.’ Why, Roberts wondered, did he publish the trial? None of the trials have been retracted.”
” BMJ: 20% of Health Research Is Fraudulent - Mad In America
While it is far more difficult for the layman to recognize the fraud in science….there is no excuse for still voting Democrat.
