Posted on 05/06/2016 8:14:51 PM PDT by dennisw
What we are seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking "clerks" and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think... and 5) who to vote for.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30y of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, microeconomic papers wrong 40% of the time, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating only 1/5th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren't even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. I have shown that most of what Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types call "rational" or "irrational" comes from misunderstanding of probability theory.
Dead on. Also true with scientific studies in other fields:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/08/27/trouble-in-science-massive-effort-to-reproduce-100-experimental-results-succeeds-only-36-times/
Over educated and terminally stupid people without commons sense or real work experience are making laws and rules that are weakening or destroying people around the world.
Wonder if they’ll ever wake up to the climate change scam.
They are after their own grand finale, a cosmic happy ending. That is fine if their views are true, but they are not. More importantly, their flawed "truth" do egregious damage to the human society they claim to save. They impose the wrong solution and make people suffer.
pharmaceutical trials replicating only 1/5th of the time
, microeconomic papers wrong 40% of the time,
people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
The Black Swan
#BlackSwansMatter
I’d say it’s more likely they’ll burn you for heresy.
We are suffering from the higher education systems drones
Bump for later
I’ve read three of his books.
Something he has repeated a number of times is that the less he listens to the popular press, the more he knows that is true. The more he listens to them, the less he knows.
So he doesn’t listen to them. So what do you read? Books. So how will you know if something important happens? I’m sure I’ll hear about it.
“”””If you dig deeper into their “expertise,” you will find that they are not telling us how the world really works, but what they think the world should be. They are after a clean-cut idealistic conclusion, while the reality is complex, uncertain and frequently depressing. It is more about satisfying their psychological needs than getting at the truth.
They are after their own grand finale, a cosmic happy ending. That is fine if their views are true, but they are not. More importantly, their flawed “truth” do egregious damage to the human society they claim to save. They impose the wrong solution and make people suffer.”””
If you really dig you’ll find that what they really want is control - total control. It stems from their inner fears that they may fall prey to human nature and lose their sense of superiority. As long as they are in control they can continue to feel superior.
That is exactly right. The left’s great oversimplification causes suffering because reality is not simple.
I’ve come to the same conclusion.
these policymaking goons.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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monkey boy!
Oh...but “they” are soooooo much smarter than you. Just ask them.
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