tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post2585737617543760999..comments2024-03-28T08:06:43.198-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: The Virus Response Goes Far Beyond SanitySiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-18578815952139360382020-10-30T03:07:51.693-04:002020-10-30T03:07:51.693-04:00@Aesop. Non-sequiter much? You are comparing Jimma...@Aesop. Non-sequiter much? You are comparing Jimmah the Peanut, Barry Soetero, and Arafat (notice you left out AlGore) to a man who invented a scientific field of study and won a Nobel Prize for his work. I respect your years of work as an ER nurse, but do you really think you know more than Dr. Levitt does?<br /><br />PS Carter actually deserved a Nobel Prize for organizing the Camp David summit that resulted in a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. <br /><br />PPS So does Trump for his achievements in negotiating peace treaties/normal diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and between Serbia and Kosovo. Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10935525862452793791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-42165893717322955792020-10-28T13:50:12.471-04:002020-10-28T13:50:12.471-04:00Your false equivalency notwithstanding (you can, a...Your false equivalency notwithstanding (you can, as they say, look it up), I see no spittle in the post above yours. Just because you have a blog doesn't make you an expert, but you do you and ROWYBS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-11854113980254141312020-10-28T13:02:12.465-04:002020-10-28T13:02:12.465-04:00You win the Non-Sequitir Award Of The Week, but yo...You win the Non-Sequitir Award Of The Week, but you'll still need another dose of butthurt cream for that outbreak.<br /><br />And Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Yasser Arafat all have Nobel prizes as well. Well played.<br /><br />Just because tyrants gonna tyrant, it doesn't invalidate epidemiology or germ theory, no matter how much spittle you froth.<br /><br />Bummer for you.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-37825788617076912592020-10-22T15:00:16.307-04:002020-10-22T15:00:16.307-04:00I said to my parents at the start of the Covid ins...I said to my parents at the start of the Covid insanity that, out of some leftover sentimental sense of civic responsibility, (and, though the Diamond Princess already indicated the disease wasn't nearly as bad as feared, out of respect for the caution that it was something like the Black Death) I'd give them the two weeks to "flatten the curve", but mark my words, once these tyrants gained the power they would never let it go. Our goodwill *would* be abused as part of a dominance game.<br /><br />Six months later: They haven't let go, and as I feared, the entire world is turning into the freaking airport TSA. Our rulers want to see our world turned into an open air prison and they'll push for it at every turn. Their vision for our lives is as <br /><br />I refuse to wear a mask now, unless it's necessary to obtain a necessity, and I'm cornered and the proprietor insists. No one is ever going to give us *permission* to live like free people again.<br /><br />MadRocketSciAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-62145922055003774622020-10-22T14:36:36.848-04:002020-10-22T14:36:36.848-04:00But but but, Aesop said, well something or other, ...But but but, Aesop said, well something or other, and I KNOW he's way smarter than a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and Professor of Structural Biology at the Stanford School of Medicine. I'm not sure to whom I should listen...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-75184505886239847332020-10-22T07:49:53.212-04:002020-10-22T07:49:53.212-04:00It's insanity.It's insanity.LLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05538854359365988863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-62400875193664434932020-10-22T00:30:01.493-04:002020-10-22T00:30:01.493-04:00All of these "researchers" are funded by...All of these "researchers" are funded by big government. Anything that makes the average blue collar Wal-Mart shopper question the truth of government pronouncements threatens the research income stream.<br /><br />Transcript of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)<br /><br /><i>Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.<br /><br />In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.<br /><br />Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been over shadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.<br /><br />The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.<br /><br />Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com