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I’ve peered reviewed this - All true
The key is the MSM - without it, their influence over our culture would vanish quickly.
I’d hit dat!
Original graphic by TheOatmeal.
Couldn’t agree more. Recently had a ‘disagreement with my S-i-L about the ‘gay gene’. I told her that the two studies that ‘found’ this were flawed. And the result has not been replicated by anyone, outside of the original two ‘researchers’. And seeing them in the early 90’s being interviewed on TV, I suspect they were both gay themselves. Agenda driven, for sure. People who don’t know how research projects are conducted don’t realize that the only way research is validated is for independent researchers to find the same results. I was in the medical community for several decades and in the early 80’s, I noticed the relaxation of standards.....it just seemed that studies were able to come up with the result that the ‘funding organization’ wanted. And then 6 months later, you would here the exact opposite from another study. Truth has been absent in many areas of our lives, for decades. Journalism is just the most visible example of this.
I also had noticed the galaxy is going to pot.
Special ping to two people who I respect.
Special ping to you so you can see me kiss ass. lol
The new (maybe not so new) lame stream media mantra:
A lie is as good as the truth, as long as you get someone to believe it!
I am published, laz, in a peer reviewed journal.
But, now?
We do not need that gatekeeper.
Do the research, put it on the internet.
And, let the real “peer” review start.
Newton did not publish in any peer review publications, neither did Galieleo or Copernicus.
Do you mean to tell me that the media is lying to us? /s
Pravda from the USSR days had more integrity and decency than the presstitutes we have here in the US today. At least Pravda was not kidding anyone.
This can go on your website. :)
Very nice. My comment would be that Asimov, for all his intellect would probably side with SJW folks today. In his love for liberalism, he was quite willing to let reason and science take a back seat for the current dem talking point.
I remember him panning Reagan’s Star Wars speech saying we could not reach for such technology. Imagine that! One of mankind’s biggest promoters of man’s ability to overcome obstacles of science belittling the speech because he didn’t like the speaker..
“It leaves us in a time of universal deceit, and as George Orwell once famously said, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Our Universities/Colleges are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades. These Intellectual Yet Idiots control our media and most of DC and many states down to the county/city level.
Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!
What we have been 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.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?, but their main skills is ability to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
What we have been 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.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) 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. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)
This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class
...telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Bingo !
I JUST realized ... there is a "they" and they don't believe people can be prescient.
It's a very good word and a valid state of some people.
pre·scient
ˈpreSH(ē)ənt/
adjective
adjective: prescient
having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.
"a prescient warning"
synonyms: prophetic, predictive, visionary;
"They" consider themselves the center of the universe and there is no room in the center for any other THAN the center of the universe.
I'll be dwelling on this thought today as I have some roof work to do, which is a great place to commune with God and yourself.
MANY here in FreeRepublic are indeed prescient.
THAT'S why we love this place.
Do you need this in HTML, or can you scrape the screen from the source?
Thanks.
I’ve come to the unfortunate conclusion that our time is not all that unique ... that truth has always been under siege. We just notice it more in our own time since we are right in the middle of all the lying.
Still worth fighting for truth though.
Good read Laz, thanks.
