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Creating a World of Distrust

July 16, 2023

Creating a World of Distrust I remember a time when people were left to their own devices when determining what to pay attention to and what to ignore. Remember “Bat Boy?” A strange Weekly World News (sister tabloid to the National Enquirer) creation set to terrorize and dismay. Did anyone really believe this? I doubt […]

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How Can We Trust Institutions That Lied?

January 15, 2023

How Can We Trust Institutions That Lied? Trust the Authorities, trust the Experts, and trust the Science, we were told. Public health messaging during the Covid-19 pandemic was only credible if it originated from government health authorities, the World Health Organization, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as scientists who parroted their lines with little critical […]

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Are Progressive “Experts” Fallible? Yes, But Don’t Tell Them That

November 29, 2022

Are Progressive “Experts” Fallible? Yes, But Don’t Tell Them That It can be argued that the world has reached the sorry state it’s in today largely because academics, politicians, “distinguished experts,” and “recognized authorities” did not have the humility to admit their own mistakes or to at least recognize the limits of their knowledge. Of […]

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Stop Trusting the Experts!

May 28, 2021

Stop Trusting the Experts! Every now and then, I’m lucky enough to meet someone who “follows the science.” I count on such folks to teach me some science that I do not yet know. Being scientifically literate, I like to start by asking them some basic questions: How are key data terms defined? How are […]

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Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and you’ll find that he already knew that better than you

May 20, 2021

Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and you’ll find that he already knew that better than you Image from “Pexels” The UN program “The Ocean Decade” is starting this year. It is supposed to be ten years of research, assessment, and development of […]

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ONLY

March 14, 2021

ONLY Claude Monet Grand Canal, Venice 1908Our freedoms are cancel-cultured one by one, and by now hardly anyone notices anymore, because the media is in on it. But this cannot end well. We better stop this now, or it will get awfully out of hand. It’s a sliding scale bouncing down a slippery slope that gifts politicians […]

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Bull in a China Shop

October 30, 2017

BULL IN A CHINA SHOP “So the modern world may be increasing in technological knowledge, but, paradoxically, it is making things a lot more unpredictable.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder “Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.” – […]

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