Posted on 12/14/2025 4:42:50 AM PST by MtnClimber
There are so many lies and liars, it’s hard to know where to begin, but here are my takes on this week’s unveiling of them.
Let’s begin with science. Seems like just yesterday Dr. Fauci and his crew were promoting “follow the science.” Well, I follow what passes for it, and if you follow the direction it’s been heading in recent decades you’ll be trapped in a remote ditch.
SCIENCE
1) Neuroscience
Do you remember reading articles and books by Oliver Sacks? Perhaps the best known were Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. From 1992 to 2024, The New Yorker, which boasts a fleet of fact checkers, published 28 of his articles. This week the publication admitted in a biographic article that much of Sack’s accounts of patient treatment were narratives lacking in veracity.
“I have some hard ‘confessing’ to do -- if not in public, at least to Shengold -- and myself,” Sacks wrote in his journal, in 1985. By then, he had published four books—“Migraine,” “Awakenings,” “A Leg to Stand On,” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” -- establishing his reputation as “our modern master of the case study,” as the Times put it. He rejected what he called “pallid, abstract knowing,” and pushed medicine to engage more deeply with patients’ interiority and how it interacted with their diseases. Medical schools began creating programs in medical humanities and “narrative medicine,” and a new belief took hold: that an ill person has lost narrative coherence, and that doctors, if they attend to their patients’ private struggles, could help them reconstruct a new story of their lives. At Harvard Medical School, for a time, students were assigned to write a “book” about a patient. Stories of illness written by physicians (and by patients)
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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And it is usually the left spreading the lies.
Wow, that was a disconnected stream of consciousness column. She must have needed to get something out there.
It's an excellent thumbnail list of public liars in the news in the last few days. The Tucker Carlson item is particularly interesting, dissecting his claims of Qatar's positive treatment of Christians.
Yes.
I think there is a growing consensus (especially among the young) that the whole world is a scam. It’s built on lies. I view about 90% of the 20th century to have been a huge mistake, which has continued and increased into the 21st century. It’s not sustainable. I expect either a broad collapse or a global awakening that really changes everything. We’re either currently in a Dark Age or else we are heading toward a Renaissance. I’m an optimist.
Although I disagree with Nick Fuentes, I think his popularity is also part of this more widespread realization that thinking differently is now necessary. At least SOME of what the “experts” tell you about science, politics, and history is just made up to benefit the elitists.
Yup—now that I am retired I had the time to do deep research on a wide range of topics—including many that had nothing to do with politics.
Almost every mainstream narrative cannot stand up to rigorous scrutiny.
There are hidden assumptions and dubious analysis behind much of what average folks believe to be “true”.
For most “prominent” folks in any field the only way they can keep their jobs is by lying—or at a minimum not speaking the whole truth.
In addition all large organizations have public relations folks and/or designated spokespeople whose job it is to “spin” to make the organization look good.
Some of these topics remain “sacred cows”—where speaking about them in public guarantees social ostracism or even worse.
Many young people smell the rot—and are sick and tired of old folks who want them to sit down and shut up.
As they used to say in the 1960s “Never trust anyone over thirty.”
+1
Here was my first life “teaching moment”.
I was taught a lie.
I believed the lie.
I told others the lie.
I trained others and convinced them to believe the lie.
Then—only many years later did I find out it was a lie.
Part of the training for a newbie Census employee was the official creed of the Bureau—and one key element was the following claim:
“The U.S. Census Bureau information is confidential—and information about individual people (such as their name and address) will never be released to any other government agency.”
Many years later I found it was a lie.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-the-us-census-b/
As a naive young person I thought “never” meant “never”.
Apparently it meant “well hardly ever”.
Lol.
Yes. The author could have added the likely false claims of Oxford University credentials from Democrat Maryland Governor Wes Moore to her list.
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