Our So-Called Expert Class

You remember when the health establishment warned us not to eat eggs, which in fact are some of the best things you can eat? Well, now it’s telling us to eat more of the same things we’ve always been told we shouldn’t eat.

What's the solution?

• As more research is done and more information comes to light, it's to be expected that we will adjust our views.
• But apart from how unreasonably long it seems to take for a faulty health conclusion to be reversed, and how dogmatically the health establishment insists on things it couldn't possibly have known with the requisite degree of certainty, something more seems to be at work: funding sources, and by a pro-consensus bias that makes it difficult to impossible for dissident paradigms to get published, funded, or even acknowledged at all.

Recent case in point: the past 16 years of Alzheimer's research may have been directed down a dead end

• Thanks to the uncritical acceptance of crucial papers by Sylvain Lesné
• Supporters of the reigning hypothesis were much too uncritical of research that supported their view, and were not the noble exemplars of pure "science" unaffected by anything other than strict reliance on the data

Covid research is a fiasco unto itself

• Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya says that having Anthony Fauci as head of covid policy and also in charge of billions of dollars for government grants to scientists is also a conflict of interest
• "Public health" officials give lousy health advice
• Lots of economists nowadays give lousy economic advice.
• Most historians teach their political agenda rather than history
• One "expert" class after another has to be viewed with skepticism

 

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/08/thomas-woods/our-so-called-expert-class/