October 11, 2024
The Purpose of Studying Hisstory
"The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not
know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from
which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which
they are living. Without some such contrast or comparison, without some
such shifting of the point of view, we should see nothing whatever of
our own social surroundings. We should take them for granted, as the
only possible social surroundings."
G.K. Chesterton
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October 10, 2024
Inflation,Recession Dog U.S.Economy
Jerry S Rainforth
No surprise to most of us.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, cumulative inflation since 2019 has totaled nearly 25 percent. But inflation figures have been understated by nearly half, resulting in cumulative growth to be "overstated by roughly 15%,” say economists EJ Antoni and Peter St. Onge.
"Moreover, these adjustments indicate that the American economy has actually been in recession since 2022,” they wrote in a new study published in Brownstone Journal. Undercounting inflation has implications for economic growth because rapid price changes have bolstered the nominal values of a wide array of economic metrics "without resulting in any real change.”
TCN
No surprise to most of us.
According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, cumulative inflation since 2019 has totaled nearly 25 percent. But inflation figures have been understated by nearly half, resulting in cumulative growth to be "overstated by roughly 15%,” say economists EJ Antoni and Peter St. Onge.
"Moreover, these adjustments indicate that the American economy has actually been in recession since 2022,” they wrote in a new study published in Brownstone Journal. Undercounting inflation has implications for economic growth because rapid price changes have bolstered the nominal values of a wide array of economic metrics "without resulting in any real change.”
TCN
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Covid Vax Damages Hearts
James Doogue
Hidden Pfizer Interim Safety Report 5 shows that the mRNA Covid-19 vaccinated are 130% more likely to suffer from Myocarditis within 21 days, and up to 40% more likely to suffer serious arterial coronary heart disease, heart failure, or other cardiovascular injuries or damage at any time in the future.
See article and link to the Report here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/08/the-hidden-pfizer-report-that-shows-up-to-40-more-heart-conditions-in-the-vaccinated/
Hidden Pfizer Interim Safety Report 5 shows that the mRNA Covid-19 vaccinated are 130% more likely to suffer from Myocarditis within 21 days, and up to 40% more likely to suffer serious arterial coronary heart disease, heart failure, or other cardiovascular injuries or damage at any time in the future.
See article and link to the Report here: https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/08/the-hidden-pfizer-report-that-shows-up-to-40-more-heart-conditions-in-the-vaccinated/
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Without Peer Reviewed Scientific Research To Support The Catastrophist Claims Of Climate Activists, They Just Publish Press Releases And The Media Run With It.
James Doogue
Frustrated by the failure of the IPCC to detect and attribute most types of extreme weather including drought, flooding, storms and wildfires to human involvement, climate activist scientists just release unsubstantiated claims by press release. That's good enough for the Net Zero billionaire support group and the Leftist media who print the scary climate headlines.
'But for those who closely follow climate science and the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "such headlines can be difficult to make sense of”, observes the distinguished science writer Roger Pielke. In a hard-hitting attack on the pseudo-scientific industry of weather attribution, he states: "neither the IPCC nor the underlying scientific literature comes anywhere close to making such strong and certain claims of attribution”.'
Climate Activists Frustrated by IPCC's Refusal to Link Extreme Weather With Carbon Emissions – The Daily Sceptic
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Frustrated by the failure of the IPCC to detect and attribute most types of extreme weather including drought, flooding, storms and wildfires to human involvement, climate activist scientists just release unsubstantiated claims by press release. That's good enough for the Net Zero billionaire support group and the Leftist media who print the scary climate headlines.
'But for those who closely follow climate science and the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "such headlines can be difficult to make sense of”, observes the distinguished science writer Roger Pielke. In a hard-hitting attack on the pseudo-scientific industry of weather attribution, he states: "neither the IPCC nor the underlying scientific literature comes anywhere close to making such strong and certain claims of attribution”.'
Climate Activists Frustrated by IPCC's Refusal to Link Extreme Weather With Carbon Emissions – The Daily Sceptic
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The Return of Global Cooling
Andrei Piriutko
Last Sunday morning, a record low temperature was recorded in Paris: (https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/seulement-6-4-c-le-matin-a-paris-du-jamais-vu-depuis-30-ans-pour-un-mois-de-septembre_AN-202409290226.html) 6.4 degrees Celsius. But they don’t rush to tell you about this in every news broadcast.
In fact, it has been record low for the whole of September.
But this is only a "record for the last 30 years”. (The last time such a temperature was recorded was in 1994.)
Observations made in September promise an unprecedentedly cold winter. But this contradicts the forecasts of "weather forecasters”.
"Global warming" turns into "global cooling" in 10...9...8...7...
Well, okay, for starters they'll just say it's "climate change"... man-made, of course.
And of course, no one will cancel taxes on CO2, which causes global warming because of such a nuance as global cooling.
Scientists will simply prove that cooling is also caused by CO2. Stay tuned for announcements!
Last Sunday morning, a record low temperature was recorded in Paris: (https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/seulement-6-4-c-le-matin-a-paris-du-jamais-vu-depuis-30-ans-pour-un-mois-de-septembre_AN-202409290226.html) 6.4 degrees Celsius. But they don’t rush to tell you about this in every news broadcast.
In fact, it has been record low for the whole of September.
But this is only a "record for the last 30 years”. (The last time such a temperature was recorded was in 1994.)
Observations made in September promise an unprecedentedly cold winter. But this contradicts the forecasts of "weather forecasters”.
"Global warming" turns into "global cooling" in 10...9...8...7...
Well, okay, for starters they'll just say it's "climate change"... man-made, of course.
And of course, no one will cancel taxes on CO2, which causes global warming because of such a nuance as global cooling.
Scientists will simply prove that cooling is also caused by CO2. Stay tuned for announcements!
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Erasing the Temperature Data
Carl R Franklin
The media today ignores weather records of the past. The FB algorithm now blocks sharing some climate links from your "memories”. I had to copy and paste this link.
Erasing 1921
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The media today ignores weather records of the past. The FB algorithm now blocks sharing some climate links from your "memories”. I had to copy and paste this link.
Erasing 1921
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DEI Enshrined in Academia
Victoria Harris
The @AAUP has ruled that faculty can be evaluated by their advancement of DEI goals in their work & that this evaluation is compatible with free speech/research.
►American Association of University Professors @AAUP
· 9:00 AM · Oct 9, 2024
Today, the AAUP released a new statement: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Criteria for Faculty Evaluation, which holds that, when appropriately designed & implemented, DEI criteria for faculty appointment, reappointment, tenure, & promotion are compatible w/ academic freedom.
️The AAUP Continues to Discredit Itself: The new-look AAUP seems to have positioned itself as a combatant in the culture wars, defending an academy marked by intersectionali
The @AAUP has ruled that faculty can be evaluated by their advancement of DEI goals in their work & that this evaluation is compatible with free speech/research.
►American Association of University Professors @AAUP
· 9:00 AM · Oct 9, 2024
Today, the AAUP released a new statement: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Criteria for Faculty Evaluation, which holds that, when appropriately designed & implemented, DEI criteria for faculty appointment, reappointment, tenure, & promotion are compatible w/ academic freedom.
️The AAUP Continues to Discredit Itself: The new-look AAUP seems to have positioned itself as a combatant in the culture wars, defending an academy marked by intersectionali
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No, We Can't Create Hurricanes
Timothy Birdnow
On Facebook the weather control theorists are out in force and arguing the two hurricanes that struck the southeast were CIA plots. Sadly such folks just don't understand the amount of energy involved; we cannot possible create such storms. I doubt we can even move them slightly.
The winds of an average hurricane can easily pack some 1.5 trillion watts of power, which is equivalent to about half the world's entire yearly electrical generating capacity. Does anybody really think we can create such a system using radio waves or sound waves or cloud seeding? There is way too much energy involved. Even if conditions are right it is an enormous mass of rotating air that has tobe energized. We do not have the technology, nor the energy, to do it.
But most of the theorists don't understand the physics involved.
Yes, we can have a very limited impact of weather. Cut down a forest and pave it over and the temperature increases. Build a lake and the temperature decreases. Build wind breaks and you stop the wind-drive erosion of land like we had during the Dustbowl years. But to create or direct a hurricane? Fuggitaboutit.
On Facebook the weather control theorists are out in force and arguing the two hurricanes that struck the southeast were CIA plots. Sadly such folks just don't understand the amount of energy involved; we cannot possible create such storms. I doubt we can even move them slightly.
The winds of an average hurricane can easily pack some 1.5 trillion watts of power, which is equivalent to about half the world's entire yearly electrical generating capacity. Does anybody really think we can create such a system using radio waves or sound waves or cloud seeding? There is way too much energy involved. Even if conditions are right it is an enormous mass of rotating air that has tobe energized. We do not have the technology, nor the energy, to do it.
But most of the theorists don't understand the physics involved.
Yes, we can have a very limited impact of weather. Cut down a forest and pave it over and the temperature increases. Build a lake and the temperature decreases. Build wind breaks and you stop the wind-drive erosion of land like we had during the Dustbowl years. But to create or direct a hurricane? Fuggitaboutit.
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Big CME Coming
Lyle Hancock Sr.
A fast coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun the evening of 8 October 2024, and is likely to arrive at Earth on 10-11 October. This CME has been analyzed, and speed estimates are 1200 to 1300 km/s. There is potential to reach G4 (Severe) upon arrival of this CME and throughout its passage.
While the solar flare was an X1.8, lower than the two previous flares, the associated CME was fast and considerably more energetic. We won't know the characteristics of the CME until it reaches the DSCOVR and ACE satellites, approximately 1 million miles from Earth.
If it reaches a G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm as expected, auroras may be seen as far south as Northern California and Louisiana -- much further south than normal.
A fast coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun the evening of 8 October 2024, and is likely to arrive at Earth on 10-11 October. This CME has been analyzed, and speed estimates are 1200 to 1300 km/s. There is potential to reach G4 (Severe) upon arrival of this CME and throughout its passage.
While the solar flare was an X1.8, lower than the two previous flares, the associated CME was fast and considerably more energetic. We won't know the characteristics of the CME until it reaches the DSCOVR and ACE satellites, approximately 1 million miles from Earth.
If it reaches a G4 (severe) geomagnetic storm as expected, auroras may be seen as far south as Northern California and Louisiana -- much further south than normal.
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Inflated Wind Speed
Roy W. Spencer
Hurricane Milton wind speeds at landfall: Another case of exaggerated estimates? I went through all of the highest sustained wind speeds the Hurricane Center listed for several hours around landfall time: The average observed by stations was 67 mph, and the average of the NHC official value was 114 mph. That's a 47 mph difference. The best positioned station was just offshore of Venice Beach, which measured 78 mph at landfall, which was 42 mph lower than the NHC estimate (120 mph). The same thing happened with Helene: our UAH storm intercept team measured only 60 mph at landfall, whereas the NHC value was 140 mph.
Tim adds:
With precision like that is it any wonder why we doubt the temperature records as provided by NASA and NOAA? I mean, if they can so inflate the wind speed of a hurricane, why do we not think they would inflate the historical temperature record?
They always seem to round up - and sometimes WAY up - to make it more dramatic, it seems to me. Or for a more nefarious purpose (like getting carbon taxes or new government regulations of the economy).
One more reason not to trust any alphabet agency when they tell us the sky is falling if we don't pay them more money.
Hurricane Milton wind speeds at landfall: Another case of exaggerated estimates? I went through all of the highest sustained wind speeds the Hurricane Center listed for several hours around landfall time: The average observed by stations was 67 mph, and the average of the NHC official value was 114 mph. That's a 47 mph difference. The best positioned station was just offshore of Venice Beach, which measured 78 mph at landfall, which was 42 mph lower than the NHC estimate (120 mph). The same thing happened with Helene: our UAH storm intercept team measured only 60 mph at landfall, whereas the NHC value was 140 mph.
Tim adds:
With precision like that is it any wonder why we doubt the temperature records as provided by NASA and NOAA? I mean, if they can so inflate the wind speed of a hurricane, why do we not think they would inflate the historical temperature record?
They always seem to round up - and sometimes WAY up - to make it more dramatic, it seems to me. Or for a more nefarious purpose (like getting carbon taxes or new government regulations of the economy).
One more reason not to trust any alphabet agency when they tell us the sky is falling if we don't pay them more money.
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Mad Mothers
Diane Kimura
Tim adds:
And these women are raising children, whom they are messing up substantially. A study showed that half of the mothers of transgendered kids have mental/personality disorders. This bodes very ill for our society as these crazy gals are reproducing and making more madness.
Of course there is a desperate move to disavow this study. There are also multiple claims that "gender affirming" fixes all the problems of the kids so afflicted. I call total bullshit on that. Transgenderism is a political movement and not a medical or psychological upwelling. It is being pushed by powerful people for reasons that are somewhat unclear (although one can guess; it is destroying the fabric of society where we cannot even define a man or woman.) But it has no medical basis at all, despite what some bogus studies paid for by advocates have shown.
~50% of liberal women under 30 say they have a mental health condition. (Pew)
There’s an entire demographic who take antidepressants
Tim adds:
And these women are raising children, whom they are messing up substantially. A study showed that half of the mothers of transgendered kids have mental/personality disorders. This bodes very ill for our society as these crazy gals are reproducing and making more madness.
Of course there is a desperate move to disavow this study. There are also multiple claims that "gender affirming" fixes all the problems of the kids so afflicted. I call total bullshit on that. Transgenderism is a political movement and not a medical or psychological upwelling. It is being pushed by powerful people for reasons that are somewhat unclear (although one can guess; it is destroying the fabric of society where we cannot even define a man or woman.) But it has no medical basis at all, despite what some bogus studies paid for by advocates have shown.
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October 09, 2024
Electric Chainsaws for Helena Survivors
Timothy Birdnow
Tel me this isn't a government operation.
FEMA sends hundreds of electric chainsaws to North Carolina town without power.
Tel me this isn't a government operation.
FEMA sends hundreds of electric chainsaws to North Carolina town without power.
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Let the Cheating Begin!
Timothy Birdnow
It's already begun.
7 Charged With Voter Fraud in Michigan Weeks Before Election
It's already begun.
7 Charged With Voter Fraud in Michigan Weeks Before Election
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Republicans Way Ahead in Registrations
Timothy Birdnow
Republicans beat the Democrats in registering voters in September in North Carolina and Pennsylvania by a margin of 2 to 1.
61,000 to 36,000 in Pennsylvania.
Of course it's not who is regisgered but who counts the votes. The Pennsylvania supreme court rejected a lawsuit by Republicans to guarantee addresses and names match on returned mail-in ballots. The sole reason for this is to make cheating easier.
We need to have a tidal wave in all these states and so overturn the power of the courts that the left has given them to help fix elections.
Republicans beat the Democrats in registering voters in September in North Carolina and Pennsylvania by a margin of 2 to 1.
61,000 to 36,000 in Pennsylvania.
Of course it's not who is regisgered but who counts the votes. The Pennsylvania supreme court rejected a lawsuit by Republicans to guarantee addresses and names match on returned mail-in ballots. The sole reason for this is to make cheating easier.
We need to have a tidal wave in all these states and so overturn the power of the courts that the left has given them to help fix elections.
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Tolkien's LOTR About ClimateChange?
Warner Todd Huston
Showrunner for Amazon’s Woke ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Says Tolkien’s Masterpiece Is about ‘Climate Change’
Showrunner for Amazon’s Woke ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Says Tolkien’s Masterpiece Is about ‘Climate Change’
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Evangelicals on Board with 1619Project
C Greg Carroll
Evangelical Christians today have become full fledged participants in the 1619 Project, the reorganization of society on the basis of identity and "equity.” All facts are siloed and filtered through a lens which attempts to correct injustices, real or perceived, which date back to the alleged complicity of Christianity in the arrival of slaves.
But who would have thought that Russell Moore, editor of the flagship Christian organ, Christianity Today, birthed by Billy Graham and Carl F. H. Henry, would lend his name to a Rob Reiner backed project to destroy wonderful Christian organizations? The movie, "God and Country,” in a screenshot below, expressly labels CBN and the Family Research Council "white Christian nationalists.”
"When do we consider how truth-telling in a Rob Reiner film might affect our neighbors or family or the people we sit next to in the pew every Sunday,” said religious historian John Fea in a column for Religion News Service.
Tim replies:
"white Christian nationalists.” We are ordered to be good citizens and to support the laws of our country and to love our country. The "white" part is just their way of accusing us of racism, the one unforgivable sin to the Left. But in the end "christian nationalism" is not just accepted but approved by God. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's! If Russell Moore doesn't like that he needs to resign from his post and edit some Internationalist rag.
Greg responds:
I want to comment more on this because this morning’s Virginian Pilot has a local story on the 1619 slave arrival in Hampton Roads. Historians should mark the event but, "never wanting a serious crisis to go to waist,” the left’s new shiny object (which every Virginian discovered in 4th grade) is manipulated to reorganize society with peculiar notions of identity and "equity.” Moore is all in, even recently attributing Jackson’s terrible municipal water to racism. (Jackson’s water was just as terrible 45 years ago when the city was majority white. I know I lived there and we couldn’t drink the water.)
Tim replies:
Oh good grief!They just don't let up!
I bet they don't know that slavery only existed in American because a black man went to court to force his servant into perpetual slavery. Anthony Johnson, a free planter in Virginia, sued in colonial court to prevent his indentured servant, a man named John Casor, from being freed, arguing Casor was not his servant but his property. That made Johnson the first slaveholder in north America. He was a black man. Funny how these people simply brush that under the rug.
And records show that blacks were brought here first as indentured servants. But they were often taken unwillingly to fill a quota (sold by African warlords) and so were poor workers, hence they got longer and longer periods of indenture until those became "in perpetuity". Slavery was driven by economics, not racism. And it was hardly unique; it existed in the Caribbean, in South America, etc. Brazil had a much larger percentage of the population in slavery than the U.S. So did Haiti, and Jamaica. And slavery was ubiquitous in Africa, which is why these people were sold in the first place; usually they lost a war.
That "bad water because of racism" thing is stupid beyond words.
BTW I saw that sort of thing when Ferguson Mo. exploded; they claimed it was "majority black"and "ghetto" when in fact Ferguson had been majority white until about a year or two before it erupted. It became black because the city of Kinloch was bought out by the airport and Ferguson was next door so all the blacks moved there at once. Ferguson was actually a kind of college town with the University of Missouri St. Louis just down the street. Gentrified, with a brewery, nice restaurants, a wine garden, and wonderful stately Victorian homes. It was not an "impoverished hellhole" as it has been portrayed by the media. But they just forced it into their template as they always do.
I am sure that's what these foolish Evangelicas who believe this nonsense are doing; believing the lies told by the media.
BTW I wrote this about the adoption of the green goddess by Evangelicals some time back. It fits with this rising adoption of the 1619 Project as well. 1619 has been soundly debunked by historians since it was first dreamed up, I might add.
Evangelical Christians today have become full fledged participants in the 1619 Project, the reorganization of society on the basis of identity and "equity.” All facts are siloed and filtered through a lens which attempts to correct injustices, real or perceived, which date back to the alleged complicity of Christianity in the arrival of slaves.
But who would have thought that Russell Moore, editor of the flagship Christian organ, Christianity Today, birthed by Billy Graham and Carl F. H. Henry, would lend his name to a Rob Reiner backed project to destroy wonderful Christian organizations? The movie, "God and Country,” in a screenshot below, expressly labels CBN and the Family Research Council "white Christian nationalists.”
"When do we consider how truth-telling in a Rob Reiner film might affect our neighbors or family or the people we sit next to in the pew every Sunday,” said religious historian John Fea in a column for Religion News Service.
Tim replies:
"white Christian nationalists.” We are ordered to be good citizens and to support the laws of our country and to love our country. The "white" part is just their way of accusing us of racism, the one unforgivable sin to the Left. But in the end "christian nationalism" is not just accepted but approved by God. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's! If Russell Moore doesn't like that he needs to resign from his post and edit some Internationalist rag.
Greg responds:
I want to comment more on this because this morning’s Virginian Pilot has a local story on the 1619 slave arrival in Hampton Roads. Historians should mark the event but, "never wanting a serious crisis to go to waist,” the left’s new shiny object (which every Virginian discovered in 4th grade) is manipulated to reorganize society with peculiar notions of identity and "equity.” Moore is all in, even recently attributing Jackson’s terrible municipal water to racism. (Jackson’s water was just as terrible 45 years ago when the city was majority white. I know I lived there and we couldn’t drink the water.)
Tim replies:
Oh good grief!They just don't let up!
I bet they don't know that slavery only existed in American because a black man went to court to force his servant into perpetual slavery. Anthony Johnson, a free planter in Virginia, sued in colonial court to prevent his indentured servant, a man named John Casor, from being freed, arguing Casor was not his servant but his property. That made Johnson the first slaveholder in north America. He was a black man. Funny how these people simply brush that under the rug.
And records show that blacks were brought here first as indentured servants. But they were often taken unwillingly to fill a quota (sold by African warlords) and so were poor workers, hence they got longer and longer periods of indenture until those became "in perpetuity". Slavery was driven by economics, not racism. And it was hardly unique; it existed in the Caribbean, in South America, etc. Brazil had a much larger percentage of the population in slavery than the U.S. So did Haiti, and Jamaica. And slavery was ubiquitous in Africa, which is why these people were sold in the first place; usually they lost a war.
That "bad water because of racism" thing is stupid beyond words.
BTW I saw that sort of thing when Ferguson Mo. exploded; they claimed it was "majority black"and "ghetto" when in fact Ferguson had been majority white until about a year or two before it erupted. It became black because the city of Kinloch was bought out by the airport and Ferguson was next door so all the blacks moved there at once. Ferguson was actually a kind of college town with the University of Missouri St. Louis just down the street. Gentrified, with a brewery, nice restaurants, a wine garden, and wonderful stately Victorian homes. It was not an "impoverished hellhole" as it has been portrayed by the media. But they just forced it into their template as they always do.
I am sure that's what these foolish Evangelicas who believe this nonsense are doing; believing the lies told by the media.
BTW I wrote this about the adoption of the green goddess by Evangelicals some time back. It fits with this rising adoption of the 1619 Project as well. 1619 has been soundly debunked by historians since it was first dreamed up, I might add.
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Green Energy; a Whiter Shade of Pale
Timothy Birdnow
Green energy is increasingly green around the gills.
McPhy abandons 24MW green hydrogen project seven days after announcing it
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Green energy is increasingly green around the gills.
McPhy abandons 24MW green hydrogen project seven days after announcing it
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On "Good" Authority
Daniel Jupp
Probably the most succinct I have ever been in expressing my view on ‘conspiracy theories’ and those who insist on credentialism.
By all means challenge bullshit whatever its source. But do it by your own thinking and logic. NEVER do it just by an appeal to authority:
"The demand that someone should hold a degree before speaking is just about the dumbest idea imaginable. I’d rather have a thousand conspiracy theories that aren’t true than one unthinking jobsworth with the power to silence others and the sheer ignorance to think that only those with a ‘relevant degree’ can hold an opinion. Fuck that servile authority loving totalitarian bullshit.”
Tim adds:
Amen.Science and technology and most such other aspects of human progress have rarely been propelled by "authorities". In fact, Western Civilization was held back for centuries by it's obsession with experts, namely Aristotle and the other classical scholars. It wasn't until people began questioning the "experts" that the West came out of the stupor that had held it backward.
I would also point out that the obsession with formal degrees is fairly new. Many of the great scholars of history lacked a formal degree.
Galileo started working on a degree but never finished it.
Isaac Newton, had only a bachelor's degree and would be completely ignored now.
Copernicus had a doctorate - in Canon Law, not astronomy or physics.
Leonardo Da Vinci had no formal education at all.
And that wasn't just true of then. How many great inventors lacked education? Thomas Edison never even graduated high school. Alexander Graham Bell quit high school at age 15.There are others, many.
And that goes for statesmen as well. Abraham Lincoln had no formal education, for example. Nor did Patrick Henry.
In point of fact "experts" are almost always drawn from universities and are indoctrinated with group think and ossified ideas that do not allow for original thinking.
As writer Arthur C. Clark put it;
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong".
Or as Nicholas Butler put it:
"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until finally, he knows everything about nothing."
Edwin Meese put it thus:
"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."
That is not to say expertiese isn't important in some cases. I would far prefer an engineer who is considered an expert to a DEI hire or a home handyman building the airplane I am to fly in, but by and large most "experts" are so styled by their college degrees and their self- asserted claim to expertise.
Sadly, this has become the sole determinant of all of our hiring these days. You can't get a job teaching, say, history even if you don't have a government certificate. I had a friend who had a degree in nursing but his undergraduate degree was business and, after twenty years of being an RN, he had to go back and get a bachelors in nursing! It was that or find another line of work. I have far greater faith in him than some teenie-bopper coming out of a nursing program.
At any rate it takes an expert to really foul things up. They are always reinventing the wheel, and then claiming their are far-sighted and brilliant.
BTW One of the key differences between Left and Right is that Leftists are unwilling or unable to think for themselves so venerate "experts" over the wisdom of crowds. Conservatives believe in theindividual and human reason. it's a fundamental difference and why so many liberals believe as Gospel the craziest things said by shcolars. Naturally, they fund the scholarship being done so they control the pronoouncements made by the "experts". They just ignore experts who disagree or call them sellouts.
Thomas Sowell wrote about this, so I have it on good authority!
Probably the most succinct I have ever been in expressing my view on ‘conspiracy theories’ and those who insist on credentialism.
By all means challenge bullshit whatever its source. But do it by your own thinking and logic. NEVER do it just by an appeal to authority:
"The demand that someone should hold a degree before speaking is just about the dumbest idea imaginable. I’d rather have a thousand conspiracy theories that aren’t true than one unthinking jobsworth with the power to silence others and the sheer ignorance to think that only those with a ‘relevant degree’ can hold an opinion. Fuck that servile authority loving totalitarian bullshit.”
Tim adds:
Amen.Science and technology and most such other aspects of human progress have rarely been propelled by "authorities". In fact, Western Civilization was held back for centuries by it's obsession with experts, namely Aristotle and the other classical scholars. It wasn't until people began questioning the "experts" that the West came out of the stupor that had held it backward.
I would also point out that the obsession with formal degrees is fairly new. Many of the great scholars of history lacked a formal degree.
Galileo started working on a degree but never finished it.
Isaac Newton, had only a bachelor's degree and would be completely ignored now.
Copernicus had a doctorate - in Canon Law, not astronomy or physics.
Leonardo Da Vinci had no formal education at all.
And that wasn't just true of then. How many great inventors lacked education? Thomas Edison never even graduated high school. Alexander Graham Bell quit high school at age 15.There are others, many.
And that goes for statesmen as well. Abraham Lincoln had no formal education, for example. Nor did Patrick Henry.
In point of fact "experts" are almost always drawn from universities and are indoctrinated with group think and ossified ideas that do not allow for original thinking.
As writer Arthur C. Clark put it;
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong".
Or as Nicholas Butler put it:
"An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until finally, he knows everything about nothing."
Edwin Meese put it thus:
"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."
That is not to say expertiese isn't important in some cases. I would far prefer an engineer who is considered an expert to a DEI hire or a home handyman building the airplane I am to fly in, but by and large most "experts" are so styled by their college degrees and their self- asserted claim to expertise.
Sadly, this has become the sole determinant of all of our hiring these days. You can't get a job teaching, say, history even if you don't have a government certificate. I had a friend who had a degree in nursing but his undergraduate degree was business and, after twenty years of being an RN, he had to go back and get a bachelors in nursing! It was that or find another line of work. I have far greater faith in him than some teenie-bopper coming out of a nursing program.
At any rate it takes an expert to really foul things up. They are always reinventing the wheel, and then claiming their are far-sighted and brilliant.
BTW One of the key differences between Left and Right is that Leftists are unwilling or unable to think for themselves so venerate "experts" over the wisdom of crowds. Conservatives believe in theindividual and human reason. it's a fundamental difference and why so many liberals believe as Gospel the craziest things said by shcolars. Naturally, they fund the scholarship being done so they control the pronoouncements made by the "experts". They just ignore experts who disagree or call them sellouts.
Thomas Sowell wrote about this, so I have it on good authority!
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