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"Trusting the experts is not a function of science. It is not a function of democracy. It is a function of religion and totalitarianism, and it does not make for a healthier population."
Twitter/X ^ | Jul 20, 2023 | Robert Kennedy Jr. via Citizen Free Press

Posted on 08/06/2023 5:56:27 PM PDT by ransomnote

ransomnote: Video clip at link.

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1682110324336631813

 


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: experts; science; trust; tyranny
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1 posted on 08/06/2023 5:56:27 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Bumping the reality missing from the Covid 19 B$ and the Vaxxes.

Hopefully, he will not be killed and/or shot/like his Dad and his uncle Jack.


2 posted on 08/06/2023 6:09:13 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Now, Send Asylum Seekers to all the vacant college dorms in NY/NJ/Mass/West Point & NE blue citiesl)
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To: ransomnote

Agree entirely. Most ‘experts’ I know are anything but.


3 posted on 08/06/2023 6:12:28 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: ransomnote

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts”. Richard Feynman


4 posted on 08/06/2023 6:22:58 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: ransomnote

As for religion and totalitarianism, add to health/quackcines the religion of glowBull Warming.

In fact, that is just the MO of much of what the Deep State does, regardless of the societal focus.


5 posted on 08/06/2023 6:23:45 PM PDT by C210N
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To: ransomnote

bttt


6 posted on 08/06/2023 6:24:31 PM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: beethovenfan

Who else should be teaching Physics 101 to everyone?


7 posted on 08/06/2023 6:26:10 PM PDT by Paladin2 (11.000)
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To: ransomnote

I believe in Science more than experts or scientists and the one that made the universe more than all our “leaders” put together.


8 posted on 08/06/2023 6:30:04 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: neverevergiveup

A true expert is such because he realizes how little he knows, not how much he knows.


9 posted on 08/06/2023 6:41:58 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ransomnote

“Trusting the experts...”

“Experts”...in this context a euphemism for whores who are federal grantees contracted to come up with politically desirable findings.


10 posted on 08/06/2023 6:43:57 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo“What were you doing in the store? You were eating the food?”)
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To: neverevergiveup

“Agree entirely. Most ‘experts’ I know are anything but.”

I agree. When I see that in a story, I automatically discount it.


11 posted on 08/06/2023 6:47:12 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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“Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts”. Richard Feynman

Correct. However, Progressivism is belief in the infallibility of experts.

12 posted on 08/06/2023 6:51:29 PM PDT by marktwain
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“Trusting the experts is not a function of science. It is not a function of democracy. It is a function of religion and totalitarianism, and it does not make for a healthier population.”
Are you speaking for the Catholic Church? Hmmm?


13 posted on 08/06/2023 7:23:29 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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A true expert is such because he realizes how little he knows, not how much he knows.

This! Thanks for posting.

14 posted on 08/06/2023 7:35:22 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: ransomnote

“Trusting the experts is not a function of science.”

Science is done, and legitimately evaluated, by those who have put in the time and effort to truly understand how science is done - including a firm grounding in statistical mathematics. If one hasn’t, one should STFU about having”done one’s own research.”


15 posted on 08/06/2023 7:37:16 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled "Trusting the experts is not a function of science. It is not a function of democracy. It is a function of religion and totalitarianism, and it does not make for a healthier population.", NobleFree wrote:

“Trusting the experts is not a function of science.”

Science is done, and legitimately evaluated, by those who have put in the time and effort to truly understand how science is done - including a firm grounding in statistical mathematics. If one hasn’t, one should STFU about having”done one’s own research.”

That's not true. Too many with a 'firm grounding in statistical mathematics' lied to us. Citizens have to do their own research to the best of each person's ability. Fortunately not all questions need be answered by 'statistical mathematics.' I read the FDA filings for Moderna and Pfizer and discovered that they didn't test their 'vaccines' for infectivity or transmission of the illness. So when those with a firm grounding in statistical mathematics assured us the 'vaccines' were safe and effective, I knew they were lying.

Doctors with the needed expertise, who had concerns and voiced them were threatened, fired, or had their license to practice medicine removed or contested/suspended. We have to do the best we can. Some citizens know statistical mathematics and some don't be we each do the best we can and most of the Plandemic was exposed just by reading what the pharmas, CDC, and their critics were saying.

But doing one's own research is the starting point for us all.

16 posted on 08/06/2023 8:04:16 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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C.S. Lewis wrote years ago:

“Again, the new oligarchy must more and more base its claim to plan us on its claim of knowledge. . . . This means they must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists. . . . Now I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside their special subjects.

Let scientists tell us about science. But government involves questions about the good of man, and justice, and what things are worth having at what price; and on these a scientific training gives a man’s opinion no added value. . . .

On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They ‘cash in’. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science.”


17 posted on 08/06/2023 9:19:45 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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The experts once told us that blood letting was a good idea and help usher the demise of George Washington by performing that procedure when he got quincy.


18 posted on 08/07/2023 4:15:56 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: 21twelve

C.S. Lewis was prescient about this, as about many things.


19 posted on 08/07/2023 4:44:26 AM PDT by marktwain
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“Fortunately not all questions need be answered by ‘statistical mathematics.’ I read the FDA filings for Moderna and Pfizer and discovered that they didn’t test their ‘vaccines’ for infectivity or transmission of the illness.”

That’s not a question of science, which was the topic of the sentence I addressed.


20 posted on 08/07/2023 10:48:32 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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