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Why Are All the Experts Such Dopes?
Townhall.com ^ | June 7, 2021 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 06/07/2021 3:32:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/07/2021 3:32:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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They aren’t. We see their results abs make the mistake of thinking they actually wanted what we do, and therefore, are dopes. The wars are not intended to end. They are designed to enrich the right crowd and advance careers. Fauci and his bizarre and evil research was designed to enrich the right people and increase control over people.

They are not dopes. They are evil.


2 posted on 06/07/2021 3:48:17 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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The experts on diet told us for decades we needed to eat processed carbs and eschew the meat our ancestors thrived on.

How right he is in this little aside. This dietary advice has caused worldwide deaths in numbers 1000s of time superior to the Wuhan plague.

3 posted on 06/07/2021 3:54:16 AM PDT by Blennos ( )
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See, today even alleged the experts in comedy are falling short.

Huh?!

Regards,

4 posted on 06/07/2021 3:56:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Kaslin

A corollary of Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

By the time they get to the top of the food chain, they’ve forgotten anything they ever knew, except how to backstab political opponents and how to lobby for bigger appropriations from Congress.


5 posted on 06/07/2021 3:57:17 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Eleutheromaniac)
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To: Kaslin
Clara said it best:



6 posted on 06/07/2021 4:18:57 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
The Peter Principle: up close and personal.
7 posted on 06/07/2021 4:22:32 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I learned something new, thanks.


8 posted on 06/07/2021 4:24:32 AM PDT by pingman ("I ain't in no ways tarred.." of WINNING!)
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To: Kaslin

Many of the experts are mentally ill.


9 posted on 06/07/2021 4:36:45 AM PDT by FreedBird (T)
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To: Elsie

The Peter Principle: up close and personal.
——compounded with the fact that many experts are thinkers, not do-ers.


10 posted on 06/07/2021 4:38:42 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: Kaslin

It is a mistake to believe our enemies are fools. They are not.

None of these are mistakes. They are deliberate efforts to obtain the societal change they desire.


11 posted on 06/07/2021 4:40:53 AM PDT by Renfrew
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Because CoupFlu was never about public health or science.

Duh.


12 posted on 06/07/2021 4:43:24 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Kaslin

The weakness is that somebody needs to deem these guys experts. And the people who select who the experts are, are people who will select those who advance their agenda.


13 posted on 06/07/2021 4:45:09 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: Kaslin

Most are well-paid party hacks who push its agenda first and foremost.


14 posted on 06/07/2021 4:46:19 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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I think a big part of this is the “soft science” aspect of much of this expertise.

Years ago I worked in an academic library. People would come in and do research and ask questions, and the library staff would do their best to respond and maybe we got it right and maybe we didn’t.

We hired a new person and she would get exasperated by the casual approach to knowledge. She said her husband was at MIT (just down the road) working on his PhD in Physics. He used math. He knew if he was right, or if he was wrong. He lived in a pretty well-defined world where opinions didn’t count for very much. But at her job, everything was “could be this, could be that, try the third floor, I don’t know, good luck”.

In a soft science world (politics being one aspect) experts may have opinions, but people should stop putting trust in them. They don’t actually know. Their world is not well-defined (though some of them seem to think it is). They kinda sorta think you might find an answer up on the third floor. Or not.

The whole concept of “expert” seems faulty to me. But the modern world seems to trust them.


15 posted on 06/07/2021 4:46:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Renfrew

People who blindly follow experts are “useful idiots”.

People who take on the role of Expert and blindly help our enemies to impose societal change, are perhaps “useful experts”.


16 posted on 06/07/2021 4:49:38 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Renfrew

A very old thread about an even older article (1939) about the New Deal. It is pertinent today. (This is a favorite of mine and explains so many things liberal even today.)

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts

Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern...

Its meaning was revolutionary and it had no other. For what it meant to do it was from the beginning consistent in principle, resourceful, intelligent, masterly in workmanship, and it made not one mistake...

Having passed this crisis, the New Deal went on from one problem to another, taking them in the proper order, according to revolutionary technic...

The end held constantly in view was power...”


17 posted on 06/07/2021 4:53:11 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: Kaslin

Expert: Ex means former, and a spurt is a drip under pressure.


18 posted on 06/07/2021 4:58:48 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: Kaslin
before the internet, the definition of expert was:

"someone with a briefcase that was more than 25 miles from home".
19 posted on 06/07/2021 5:04:34 AM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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Thomas Sowell is an expert on this subject, and outlined it in his excellent books, most notably in his work "Intellectuals and Society" which I highly recommend.

A quote from Edmund Burke (used by Sowell in his work) summarizes the most level headed attitude we should all adopt towards these people who overstep their intellectual boundaries. Burke said:

"I revere men in the functions that belong to them, but not beyond."

20 posted on 06/07/2021 5:26:55 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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