Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Use and Misuse of Science
American Thinker ^ | 18 Oct, 2026 | Clarice Feldman |

Posted on 10/18/2026 5:16:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Elon Musk has made engineering the heroic, progressive enterprise we once thought it was, not the diddly work of guys in short sleeves with pocket protectors.

In the same week that Elon Musk demonstrates his latest innovation -– a flying car -- Jeffrey Tucker examines Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary entries.

These entries cover the period December 2021 to May 2023, which Tucker calls “the darkest months of the Covid era.” In the case of Musk, we see science in action, opening new and exciting possibilities. As for Fauci, we see a disturbing pattern of misusing his position to hide his role in the lab creation of COVID-19. Tucker compares the Fauci efforts to Lady Macbeth’s attempts to erase evidence of her role in murder.

Fauci first hoped COVID-19 would get lost in a bad flu season, but a Chinese businessman blew the whistle on that attempted cover-up. Then he denied the lab leak and undertook to begin a “nationwide inoculation to make it go away.” Although he knew this virus would mutate so rapidly that inoculations would be futile, he supported lockdowns while the inoculations were made ready for distribution. “His hope was to take the energy out of the pace of mutation by reducing the infection rate as low as possible.” Just as the shots were available for distribution, however, a new mutation “disabled their protection” and “mutations appeared faster than repeated boosters could catch.”

His next step was to demonize the opposition. (In this, as we know, social media biggies like Twitter and Facebook joined the perfidious effort to limit real information about the virus and its treatment.)

Two weeks before this tranche begins, Biden had gone on TV to declare the following: “We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; elonmusk; fauci; musk; neuralink; spacex; tesla
Message from Jim Robinson:

Dear FRiends,

We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.

If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:

Click here: to donate by Credit Card

Or here: to donate by PayPal

Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794

Thank you very much and God bless you,

Jim


1 posted on 10/18/2026 5:16:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

One a truthful conservative and one a leftist liar.


2 posted on 10/18/2026 5:16:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

I will give Fauci credit for putting his AIDS research to use.

He did learn how to make diseases, if not cure them.


3 posted on 10/18/2026 5:23:35 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Fauci just followed the “second-hand smoke” playbook.


4 posted on 10/18/2026 5:27:28 AM PDT by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
Elon Musk has made engineering the heroic, progressive enterprise we once thought it was, not the diddly work of guys in short sleeves with pocket protectors.

Those guys with short sleeves and pocket protectors gave us interstate highways, made muscle cars, automated food production, water and sewage treatment, heavy machinery, skyscrapers, semiconductors, and took us to the moon.

That was plenty heroic. If Clarice wants "progressive" beyond that, she can go to hell.

5 posted on 10/18/2026 5:36:46 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Empire_of_Liberty

Yup

He wetted his taste for death on 80+child wards of New York state by force feeding them his experimental aids drugs till they died and were literally buried in a mass grave .

( Read Dr.kennedy’s book THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI )

Then he expanded his sadistic tastes with beagle dogs.

And when he realized the real satisfaction, and profit, could be found by taking his poisons global , hooked up with a CCP PLA bioweapon lab and oversaw the creation of a Frankenstein, found nowhere in creation, virus and it’s equally if not more deadly “ vaccine” and gleefully watched it facilitate the

maiming and death on an Industrial scale across the whole earth.

Jmho


6 posted on 10/18/2026 5:50:25 AM PDT by cuz1961
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

bfl


7 posted on 10/18/2026 5:51:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Some people want to control their own life, others want to control the lives of others. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Carry_Okie

I assure you Clarice is advocating for progress in the true sense of progress, not as an alternate term for collectivism as it has been hijacked to mean. Much like “liberal” has been hijacked by the same types, who have to continually run from their policy failure by manipulating language.


8 posted on 10/18/2026 5:58:51 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Carry_Okie

I’m sure Clarice already wishes she could take that one back. As for me, I wasn’t smart enough to rate a pocket protector.


9 posted on 10/18/2026 6:23:13 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Carry_Okie

Elon Musk has made engineering the heroic, progressive enterprise we once thought it was, not the diddly work of guys in short sleeves with pocket protectors.


Yes, I always thought the “guys in short sleeves with pocket protectors” were plenty heroic. She could have included slide rules, but she is probably ignorant of such.

“guys in short sleeves with pocket protectors” are one of the foundational groups of people who built the petroleum age, which raised us above animal powered farms and into the space age.

I place Elon Musk at the top of that group, along with being the genius of the age.


10 posted on 10/18/2026 6:33:52 AM PDT by marktwain (----------------------)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: FreedomPoster

The word “Liberal”, isn’t even hijacked, really. It means “Free Person”, as opposed to “Slave”, and was used in the ancient, Greek Democracies.


11 posted on 10/18/2026 6:36:05 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber
I'd like to see AOC do something similar:

F6D6E83C 2E40 4C0F AE99 E061DB797C67

12 posted on 10/18/2026 6:47:48 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bon of Babble

She was amazed and afraid at the presence of a working garbage disposal.


13 posted on 10/18/2026 6:58:41 AM PDT by Kudsman (Obama: Fraud-American. Omar: Fraud-American. Mohamed: Fraud-American. Fauxahantas: Fraud-American)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

$cience.


14 posted on 10/18/2026 7:16:38 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Fauci is symbolic of the bureaucratic state which assumes the bureaucracy is the solution and not the actions or inactions of that bureaucracy.

The best example bureaucratic failure is Funeral Homes. They are licensed (allegedly) precisely because they must be properly conducted for public health. But here in GA, and nationwide, in Jan 2020 the elderly were dying of SARS-2 later to be named COVID-19. The elderly friends of the dead came to the funerals. Those funerals in Jan 2020 did more to spread COVID than anything else.

Those elderly returned from the funeral to their church and elderly facility and spread the disease fast.

If licensing and government regulation worked, those funeral homes would never have been allowed to spread the contagion to other elderly.

This is just one example. Repeatedly we see where the “good intentions” of the bureaucracy and licensing and regulation just do not work. There are 2 options:

1) Double down and what doesn’t work.

2) Teach personal responsibility in school and everywhere and not trust the bureaucracy.

The main message of the media and the bureaucracy was TRUST THE SCIENTIST.

IN GOD WE TRUST is the alternative. We emphasized IN GOD WE TRUST post WWII precisely not because we became more Godly but because we learned that we cannot trust “scientific socialsim” or Nazi scientists.


15 posted on 10/18/2026 10:42:58 AM PDT by spintreebob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber; lightman; Navy Patriot

Stupid biden called public officials who ignored his mask and vaccination mandates “Neanderthals”.

......Sen. Marsha Blackburn suggested it was actually a good thing to be called a Neanderthal.

“Neanderthals are hunter-gatherers. They’re protectors of their family. They are resilient. They’re resourceful. They tend to their own,” the GOP senator said. “So I think Joe Biden needs to rethink what he is saying.”

Shortly after she made the comment, fellow lawmakers and members of the public mocked Blackburn and pointed out that her use of the present tense was incorrect given that Neanderthals are extinct......

On average, we are 2% Neanderthal! And we share most of our Homo sapiens sequences with Neanderthals! Umgawa to biden and the bidenites!


16 posted on 10/18/2026 10:58:39 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson