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articles:politics:20211112-bret-weinstein-s-take-on-scientific-consensus [2021/12/06 07:11]
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articles:politics:20211112-bret-weinstein-s-take-on-scientific-consensus [2021/12/11 15:12] (current)
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| ===== Bret Weinstein's take on Scientific Consensus ===== | ====== Bret Weinstein's take on Scientific Consensus ====== |
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| --- //[[noemail@thomasclark.us|Tom Clark]] 2021/11/12 07:06// | --- //[[noemail@thomasclark.us|Tom Clark]] 2021/11/12 07:06// |
| {{youtube>JMqrhIC93tY?t=332medium}} | {{youtube>JMqrhIC93tY?t=332medium}} |
| **“Destruction of dissent”, Inverse of Manufacture of Consent (from Livestream #100)\\ | **“Destruction of dissent”, Inverse of Manufacture of Consent (from Livestream #100)\\ |
| by [[politics:personalities:darkhorse-podcast|Darkhorse Podcast]] via Youtube** | by [[articles:politics:personalities:darkhorse-podcast|Darkhorse Podcast]] via Youtube** |
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| There's actually a better discussion on scientific consensus that Bret brought up in a different podcast but I'm having trouble finding it. But the topic is very important. You keep hearing from the CNNs, NPRs, ABCs, and CBSs about scientific consensus on a whole bunch of issues. However, if the government is ignoring dissenting studies and scientists, defunding dissenting science, and social media is censoring dissenting scientific opinions -- Bret's question is this -- if you have all those coercive processes going on, is there actual consensus or do you simply have what amounts to is the appearance of conformity through oppression? The whole idea of consensus is -- I think in most people's mind -- is that consensus is arrived at by independent sober minds that have came to the same conclusion without being threatened. Well, that's not happening when it comes to issues surrounding Covid (i.e. lockdowns, mask mandates, therapeutic treatments, vaccines). | There's actually a better discussion on scientific consensus that Bret brought up in a different podcast but I'm having trouble finding it. But the topic is very important. You keep hearing from the CNNs, NPRs, ABCs, and CBSs about scientific consensus on a whole bunch of issues. However, if the government is ignoring dissenting studies and scientists, defunding dissenting science, and social media is censoring dissenting scientific opinions -- Bret's question is this -- if you have all those coercive processes going on, is there actual consensus or do you simply have what amounts to is the appearance of conformity through oppression? The whole idea of consensus is -- I think in most people's mind -- is that consensus is arrived at by independent sober minds that have came to the same conclusion without being threatened. Well, that's not happening when it comes to issues surrounding Covid (i.e. lockdowns, mask mandates, therapeutic treatments, vaccines). |
