This foul-mouthed immunology professor wonders why no one cares (to paraphrase his NSFW language) what he thinks, why “some random person on social media” (hi!) has more credibility:
Hmm. Let’s look at his PINNED tweet - the one he hopes we’ll see:
Yep, he thinks vaccine immunity to Covid is superior to natural.
Oh.
Wake me when it’s time to start giving a fuck about your credentials.
I don't care anymore about what people say on Twitter. What we need is politicians running on a platform to remove all the power from unelected bureaucrats and strengthen the protections that were supposed to be provided by the constitution. No more extended emergency orders.
Exactly. McCain was an idiot complaining about lobbying money. The way to get the lobbyists out of DC is to get the money and power out of DC. He had it exactly backward - like usual for a Keating 5 corruptican.
I disagree. Initially set up as a confederacy of states. That changed with the constitution but still President was always supposed to be weak to prevent kingmaking. Even under the constitution a lot of power was intended to be devolved to the states rather than federal govt. The federal govt has usurped mega amounts of additional powers over the years.
The authoritarians have overplayed their hand. They pushed too far too fast, and the upcoming backlash will be historic. Now that the mask is off, the authoritarian bullies are easy to identify. Next comes flushing them out of the halls of power and ushering in a new class of leadership that understands why freedom is important. Then comes the difficult task of wrestling back said freedom so we can make our own decisions.
Many of you will note that throughout the article (and title) I used little-l libertarian instead of big-l Libertarian. This is because, though the Libertarian Party might be the best vote in specific races, often we'll be forced to choose the most libertarian Republican (or Democrat!) running. The Libertarian Party is not the answer. The answer is libertarian policies coming from politicians of all parties.
I have been appreciating your substack and your principled libertarian analysis that isn’t stuck in partisan traps or unworkable solutions.
I really hope the blowback is large enough to suck the power out of these bio-security institutions. I think the partisan democrats are an obstacle, but anti-authoritarianism is considered one of the shared values of both sides of the political spectrum. With the right messaging, both liberals and can conservatives could come together to never let this happen again.
Except deluge immigration & 1-way "free trade" -- both "libertarian" polices -- have largely wrecked the USA and paved the way for the tyranny & redistribution "libertarians" oppose.
Let's examine your deflection. It's not immigrants who are primarily hurt by your callous Darwinist "libertarian" policies. They wouldn't come here unless they were better off than staying where they are. This is clear microeconomics.
Your policies hurt natural-born American citizens. Deluge immigration & 1-way "free trade" crush real wages & job opportunities while driving up cost of living, land, elbow-room, "housing", dignity & privacy, destroying liberty & freedom of movement (e.g. gridlock & gun control in high density states), redistributing the citizen's share of public property & voting control -- like throwing new corporate stock shares out of helicopters along the border.
Your policies are crushing the middle class, and are cruelest to lower income unskilled workers, welfare recipients and unemployed.
The empirical evidence is secular & overwhelming. Since the 1965 immigration act & various amnesties, population doubled due to immigration while real estate cost in more desirable regions rose 100-fold. Population drives "housing" cost.
Since 1980, over 100% of net job growth went to immigrants & invaders. Real wages in construction stagnated, while in big cities like Los Angeles, low-skilled industries have been taken over and natural born English speaking citizens frozen out due to racism & bigotry.
Those factors account for much of the massive increase in homelessness. The homeless can no longer afford "housing".
Illegals used to pour in because Wall Street Journal style Republicans want cheap labor and Democrats want red states falling blue, and neither party gives a crap about flyover state citizens in towns and homes w/o walls, gates, and private security. Ted Kennedy changed our feeder countries in 1965 and Reagan's one big mistake (he admits) was the amnesty deal, and the rest is history (we take in 1.2 million legal immigrants each year). This latest border chaos is a different animal, driven by Dems and Leftists for the votes, fraud votes, and the sizable few who want the total destruction of America, watching the madness from behind their white enclave gates and their kids in private schools, cheering unions against school choice, and making billions off the backs of ordinary citizens needing to order in during lockouts while feigning woke to keep money flowing and the divisions stark. Biden is verging on brain dead and the fake epidemic helped water every single tree. Not a great two years, and yes: Trump did much better on every front than the gang there now, and this despite non stop hysterical TDS.
Should have a good shot with parents pissed like never before. <60 days to gather signatures. If it gets on the ballot, they'll have to spend $100s of millions to defeat it, if they can.
Fantastic! Can you imagine the bumper sticker that points out how racist teachers unions and the Left are: "Keep non whites out of our private schools, vote No on vouchers".
Yep, they're not true libertarian policies, but nearly every so-called libertarian leader and group supports them. e.g. Cato, Reason, the "Independent" Institute, AEI, and the "Libertarian" Party.
Major exception, true libertarian Hans Herman-Hoppe.
Agree. Emergency orders for 48 hours only until the legislature can be convened. No more legislation with wording "at the discretion of the bureaucrat or governor, etc"
A major, narrow redefinition of what constitutes an emergency is in order in all jurisdictions. It must be immenent and not something that might happen. It must be physically apparent to all thoe to be affected by the measures to be taken. It must be so overwhelming that it cannot be handled by individuals and local governments. It must have concretely defined, measurable criteria for its end.
All of the emergency powers that the federal, state, and local governments have been giving themselves for the past decades need to be eliminated. Emergency powers are solely used for abuse of the public, nothing else.
It must be so horribly painful for these ego maniacs to ever admit they’ve been wrong about anything. Considering how much agony they’ve caused millions (if not billions) over the past two years, I hope the pain doesn’t subside anytime soon.
One day we all have to face what we did, and if we lived in denial that moment will be all the more grueling. They're in for it unless they jump ship fast.
Should have a good shot with parents pissed like never before. <60 days to gather signatures. If it gets on the ballot, they'll have to spend $100s of millions to defeat it, if they can.
I was looking for the connection! Thank you InterestedLog for finding that bit of info! Pay off your many loans by tweeting! Never bite the hand that feeds you yes?
There's no correlation between "educated" and "intelligent". Some of the smartest people I know have little or no formal education, and some of the dumbest people I know have more degrees than they can count.
“It is neither the level of our education nor the institution that educated us that makes any of us intelligent. Rather it is the willingness to challenge our present belief system, our openness to analyzing new knowledge, and our ability to critically think for ourselves independent of authority that makes us intelligent.” - JS Kim
Conflict of interest statement: I'm a retired computer engineer, with very little formal education after high-school.
“Don’t wear a mask!” “Wear a mask!” “Wear two masks!” Wear three masks!” “Cloth masks don’t work!” “Only N95s will protect you!”
“If you’re vaccinated you can’t get covid.” “Vaccines are 100% effective at stopping covid.” “Vaccines are 96% effective.”
“Vaccines are 70% effective.” “Vaccines no longer effective after six months.” “Boosters are our only way out of covid.” “It is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Just a sampling of the nonsense that has been spouting out of these morons pie holes.
I was kicked off a local MeetUp site by a group administratior who started an altercation about masking that devolved into his bragging about his credentials while calling Ivermectin horse paste. Once the truth is out there and indisputable, that credentialed dope will still be asserting the CDC narrative of 2021. I take being off that site as a badge of honor.
Paul, you’d enjoy watching Dr Mobeen’s recent video on how a new monoclonal got a EUA from the FDA on the same basis (working in test tube) that critics used to lambast approval of ivermectin. There’s a lot more to this great take down, but the basic point is — the FDA is purely political and not science driven. To which I’d add, and that is why their top scientists resigned.
The problem with people like him and Fauci etc. It has nothing to do with their credentials. Its the fact that you, Fauci etc refused to debate anybody with the same or better credentials is what makes you a clown! What kind of doctor or scientist doesn't allow debate? One thats full of sh!t
Because they don't understand exactly what "Credentials" EARN OUR TRUST.
Letters behind your name, or what you've published has some impact, but you must BE HONEST to be trusted. Admit you're wrong. Admit where you're uncertain. Admit that, "XYZ action reduces your risk, but you have to apply your own values to your own choices." etc.
In informal groups, I tend to be put off by those who tout their degrees unless it seems relevant. Frankly, I am more impressed meeting a Bob who is well-spoken and seems knowledgeable in conversation but perhaps not domineering. Only later I might learn he has a PhD in the topic. The world needs more people like Bob. Nobody should be called "Doctor" as a form of address unless you are speaking to a physician or your university professor, perhaps.
Narcissistic Rage - "It is the narcissist’s thin skin and sensitivity that leads to this rage because of a deep-seated fear of being "found out" for not being the person they portray themselves to be."
People need to remember that science is something you do, not something you are, and the moment you start putting self interest or ideology above a commitment to truth, you aren't doing science any more. I have he greatest respect for experts who remain humble and honest. Those who aren't are giving expertise a bad name.
I feel so ashamed. There I was, listening to some rando named Michael Levitt on the internet. He won a Nobel prize thingy. (That's a participation award, right?) And those randos Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya. What was I thinking?
“…Dr. Anthony Fauci, previously the most respected medical voice in the country…” LOL. Says who? Sadly, for decades most of us were completely unaware of Dr. Mengele Fauci. That’s how he quietly amassed so much power. I guess ol’ Derelict Dent is counting on some grant money from Tony, so he’s gotta bow publicly at his alter.
He paid big bucks. Put his time in. Said what he needed to say. Learned what they wanted him to learn.
He gives away the real value of his credentials when he says vax immunity is better than natural immunity. Real genius. He says that and the wonders why people don't want to listen to him. He may as well just wear a badge that says: I'm a Friggin Moron But Listen To Me. I Have Credentials.
It's easy to confuse credentials with credibility. It's nice when they coincide, but they often do not. A nice Venn diagram may be helpful here, but you'll have to draw it for yourself.
Expert opinion is level 5, the lowest level, of the hierarchy of scientific evidence. Likewise the computer modeling projections. The BIG F's politically driven and financially driven and conflict-riven pronouncements did not even make it into the hierarchy of scientific evidence. So that guy's rant is not about the science, clearly, but he, like BIG F, makes it all about ME-ME-ME. Not a good look for the face or the voice of THE SCIENCE.
Models mostly suck. I was a journalist for years and IT pros would explain why their population models of various wildlife in Wyoming, especially, were spot-on. But if you would go out into the areas where they modeled a population of 9,000 pronghorns and were allocated 1,000 hunting tags and then tried to find even 100 antelope, you sometimes could find zero. This wasn't a one-time thing, either. Modeling wildlife population numbers should be one of the easiest models, right? But they, quite frankly, were usually wrong, in some cases dramatically wrong.
During COVIDMANIA the experts have been projecting based on assumptions that are not based on hard science but on expert opinion. In some jurisdictions, like with the imposingingly labeled 'SCIENCE TABLE', modeling has been used like a Ouija Board to predict the future. So I ask people to imagine those credential scientists at the table with fingers on the Ouija Board with the lights dimmed and incense wafting in the air they breath. Of course, you must now think of the Science Table / Ouija Board as a group of fully vaxed and fully masked heros. Heh.
And will add that at least he dropped a link to some sci study -- as an afterthought, natch. He may have a good argument or he might have a good grasp of some of the evidence. Okay, step up and do an in-person face-to-face debate with someone like Dr McCullough, whose credentials might impress him at least.
I doubt it because he has already called him a quack which, honestly, is so juvenile I wouldn’t want Dr McC to waste his breathe: pearls, swine and all that.
The difference between arrogance and confidence is the difference between Dent and McCullough. When you watch the docs like McCullough or Malone or Alexander, in both formal and off-the-cuff moments, you see humility and confidence. When you catch men like Dent or Faucci off-script, you see arrogance and incompetence. I think arroagance often appears despite a person having high competence and expertise that is relevant; however, the lack of competence coupled with arroagance is a whole different thing. This is why it is important to scratch the surface, to look at the offered evidence, and then to engage in discourse. Believe me, my friend, I have engaged in such discussions with highly competent individuals whose fields are very challenging and more often than not the discussins can be pushed off the rails by arrogance and emotion. Yet the substance must remain despite the arrogance. And so when you test the evidence, and substance melts away, all that is left is arrogance, then, you can come to conclusions about the man as well as the evidence presented. When an arrogant person who is highy competent and highly devoted to truth discovers he was wrong or that the evidence is not as robust as once thought, he will be tested by his willingess to be humble before the reality. The arrogant with no basis cling to delusions instead. That can be foregiven when such a man openly resolves to re-calibrate and correctly stand on truth - on reality. Such victories are personal, for such a man, but are lived openly among peers. This is very difficult for many. Which is why the humility of men like McCullough, Malone, and Alexander is very touching and admirable.
In my experience, those who are truly at the "top of their game" know they have nothing to prove. They display a relaxed confidence and are curious and open to new ideas and perspectives.
Challenge him to make a commitment. If one child dies from the C19 shots, then, he will go to the local surgery and volunteer one of his hands to be amputated. Too much, coz he needs both hands to keep his livelihood? Ok, he will sit in the penalty box for the credentialed-but-mistaken team and be barred from posting on social media or making public expression of his opinions for, let's say, two years. Still too much, coz freedom of expression? Alright, let's go easy on him. On every Saturday afternoon, for two years, he will wear a sandwich board that reads, I was wrong about C19 shots, and be required to walk up and down Main Street. Oh, too much, coz of public humiliation? Seems that there is no price he would pay for his wrongness but he is more than happy to pretty much inflict all of the above on highly credential doctors and scientists with whom HE disagrees. Big test of character. He'd fail. Most of the public experts reciting covidmania talking points and attitudes fail very, very, very quickly. But if you walk them through the challenge, they expose their own lack of respect for credentials and for the public response to the trust THEY have squandered.
He's panicking that nobody cares about the letters after his name. We've been lied to and manipulated for too long. I watch Washington Journal on C-Span most mornings, it's not perfect but does give you a glimpse of the masses. I think the tables are turning. The majority of callers now have seen the light. We're sick of it and pushing back finally.
I had to laugh. My mother was a Ph.D., my brother is a Ph.D. I called my brother "doctor" one time and he said "don't do that again." I said why? You earned it. He said "The only thing that means is I could sit still for 8 years." Just because you went to school doesn't mean you know everything. Plenty of Ph.Ds., are wrong about stuff all the time. This guy didn't lose respect during the pandemic, he obviously never had it to begin with.
Dr. Dent, could you identify this (these) random person(s) on social media? It would help a lot. As to your assertion Dr. Fauci was previously the most respected medical voice in the country; well, that is a stretch according to a relative of mine who attended conferences where Dr. Fauci was speaking in the 1990s. More to the point, did you ever receive any information from Dr. Fauci (or the CDC) to supplement 6,000 iu of Vitamin D3 daily, like he does? If you did not, you are not alone. Neither did I. How about that massive campaign by the CDC to encourage people to reduce their BMI? I missed all of the CDC outreach on that one, too. Dr. Dent, using your background in immunology, could you please provide a back of the envelope number of how many lives we could have saved in the US by pushing Vitamin D3 supplements and BMI reduction with as much vigor as the various levels of government have pushed mRNA vaccination?
Poor pathetic sap...natural immunity is always better than jab induced...always... and this joker is an immunology prof......good grief...Prof Alexander, please take your credentials and shove them where your dent is!
Credentials are simply the person's high opinion of themselves used to hide a faulty argument and their actual low self esteem. The first and biggest BS was and is a vaccine has superior immunity then mother nature. There are so many reasons why. All you need is common sense with or without credentials.
Rhetorical Fallacy, the appeal to authority. But if his expert opinion has merit, based on evidence and his comprehension of that evidence, then, he might openly enter scientific discourse with other experts who would gladly discuss the evidence as they comprehend it. But for some reason this has not been an option in the public square in which he, as a social media poster, has expressed himself. Not his fault, he might say, but then, given his heated opinion of the state of pubic discourse, he might then do his due diligence and SEEK OUT experts of different opinions than his own and PUBLIC DISCUSS that disagrement in the public square. SEEK THEM OUT. Promote THAT discussion.
Moderna makes its mRNA one molecule at a time in machines conceptually like a 3D printer. They can't possibly be checking each amino acid. How many of these are defective? Even if each mRNA is perfect, what about short/long term unplanned effects?
The pinned tweet is a head scratcher. The paper referenced is from May '21 and has no data or references to the immune response from vaccinations for covid. The only reference is the conjecture in the Summary that "Together, these findings highlight the importance of current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, which are optimally formulated to induce protective MBC responses against the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2." Then, in the Discussion we get, "This is further evidence that widespread vaccination, which only elicits a response to the spike, may be critical to end the pandemic." No citations are offered.
This is not science. It is scientists looking for funding from all of the money being offered for research that encourages vaccinations.
I am tired of looking in the medical literature and seeing safe and effective when their data doesn't support it. Makes my head spin with the obligatory phrase to keep funding and to be politically correct. Looking forward to journals not funded by BP.
Alex, I’ll take “tweets that didn’t age well” for $500…
😂
Maybe take that for ....how much did this experimental disaster cost us?
😂😂😂😂
Credentialed but not educated.
His credential indicates he can repeat what someone tells him to say. It does not indicate an ability to think nor have principles.
A bit of a 'credential' in elastic twanging, but not a grain of common sense - sadly, 'common' sense, aint that common nowadays !!
Credentialed in Mass Formation Psychosis.
https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/mass-formation-psychosis
There are many. Just this week read about an idiot professor of urology (Dalhousie U.) dissing a microbiologist because "it's a virus, not a microbe".
And they wonder why no one gives an F about their credentials anymore. Some of the dumbest imps are "educated".
Or educated, but NO SENSE!
Another “Educated Derelict!”
Just nonsense !
stupid is as stupid does and you can't FIX stupid.
Right! I would rather be a educated idiot than stupid any day :)
They choose to be selectively ignorant.
They go along to get along.
And there are also science academics who are quitting because they see the bs and can't take it anymore.
We need to make credentials a contra-indication for employment.
BS=Bull Shit , MS = More Shit, PHD = Piled High And Deep !
MPH = Master of Panic and Hysteria
MD = Mighty Dumb
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and this is who is teaching the kids....the world is doomed if this crap continues
Well it’s not gonna stop itself.
Educated does not mean intelligent.
Nutpicking.
I don't care anymore about what people say on Twitter. What we need is politicians running on a platform to remove all the power from unelected bureaucrats and strengthen the protections that were supposed to be provided by the constitution. No more extended emergency orders.
Defund all of the alphabet agencies.
Start over from scratch. We no longer can trust anyone.
Indeed
Totally! I would love to see Washington, DC become Baltimore 2.
Amen
F-YES
Julius Ruechel said it beautifully, "We don't need better leaders as much as we need less powerful institutions."
exactly, a small and weak government (as was intended) isn't worth buying by monied interests
Exactly. I get $0/year from special interests because I can't help them. I want my congressman to be the same.
Exactly. McCain was an idiot complaining about lobbying money. The way to get the lobbyists out of DC is to get the money and power out of DC. He had it exactly backward - like usual for a Keating 5 corruptican.
I disagree. Initially set up as a confederacy of states. That changed with the constitution but still President was always supposed to be weak to prevent kingmaking. Even under the constitution a lot of power was intended to be devolved to the states rather than federal govt. The federal govt has usurped mega amounts of additional powers over the years.
You nailed it through the board, and that's exactly what I talk about today.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/were-all-libertarians-now
The authoritarians have overplayed their hand. They pushed too far too fast, and the upcoming backlash will be historic. Now that the mask is off, the authoritarian bullies are easy to identify. Next comes flushing them out of the halls of power and ushering in a new class of leadership that understands why freedom is important. Then comes the difficult task of wrestling back said freedom so we can make our own decisions.
Many of you will note that throughout the article (and title) I used little-l libertarian instead of big-l Libertarian. This is because, though the Libertarian Party might be the best vote in specific races, often we'll be forced to choose the most libertarian Republican (or Democrat!) running. The Libertarian Party is not the answer. The answer is libertarian policies coming from politicians of all parties.
I have been appreciating your substack and your principled libertarian analysis that isn’t stuck in partisan traps or unworkable solutions.
I really hope the blowback is large enough to suck the power out of these bio-security institutions. I think the partisan democrats are an obstacle, but anti-authoritarianism is considered one of the shared values of both sides of the political spectrum. With the right messaging, both liberals and can conservatives could come together to never let this happen again.
Awesome bouncie pic in your article. He took a knee? Seriously? Does that make him a racist misogynist now? Lol
Well he's a white guy so I assume he already was.
Except deluge immigration & 1-way "free trade" -- both "libertarian" polices -- have largely wrecked the USA and paved the way for the tyranny & redistribution "libertarians" oppose.
Disneyland doesn't have to go around kicking everybody out of the park at the end of the night, they just have to turn off all the rides.
If you can come here and make it in America with no help, then maybe you deserve to be in America?
Let's examine your deflection. It's not immigrants who are primarily hurt by your callous Darwinist "libertarian" policies. They wouldn't come here unless they were better off than staying where they are. This is clear microeconomics.
Your policies hurt natural-born American citizens. Deluge immigration & 1-way "free trade" crush real wages & job opportunities while driving up cost of living, land, elbow-room, "housing", dignity & privacy, destroying liberty & freedom of movement (e.g. gridlock & gun control in high density states), redistributing the citizen's share of public property & voting control -- like throwing new corporate stock shares out of helicopters along the border.
Your policies are crushing the middle class, and are cruelest to lower income unskilled workers, welfare recipients and unemployed.
The empirical evidence is secular & overwhelming. Since the 1965 immigration act & various amnesties, population doubled due to immigration while real estate cost in more desirable regions rose 100-fold. Population drives "housing" cost.
Since 1980, over 100% of net job growth went to immigrants & invaders. Real wages in construction stagnated, while in big cities like Los Angeles, low-skilled industries have been taken over and natural born English speaking citizens frozen out due to racism & bigotry.
Those factors account for much of the massive increase in homelessness. The homeless can no longer afford "housing".
Actual issues here. Let's see if you can address them without snarky deflection, red herring analogies and hand waving.
Crickets Chirping.
Chirp...Chirp...Chirp...
Typical True Believer LoLibertarian deflection.
Oh it's you. I should have ignored you from the start. Enjoy your day.
RUN AWAY
Illegals used to pour in because Wall Street Journal style Republicans want cheap labor and Democrats want red states falling blue, and neither party gives a crap about flyover state citizens in towns and homes w/o walls, gates, and private security. Ted Kennedy changed our feeder countries in 1965 and Reagan's one big mistake (he admits) was the amnesty deal, and the rest is history (we take in 1.2 million legal immigrants each year). This latest border chaos is a different animal, driven by Dems and Leftists for the votes, fraud votes, and the sizable few who want the total destruction of America, watching the madness from behind their white enclave gates and their kids in private schools, cheering unions against school choice, and making billions off the backs of ordinary citizens needing to order in during lockouts while feigning woke to keep money flowing and the divisions stark. Biden is verging on brain dead and the fake epidemic helped water every single tree. Not a great two years, and yes: Trump did much better on every front than the gang there now, and this despite non stop hysterical TDS.
Well said. Check this out:
https://www.californiaschoolchoice.org/
Should have a good shot with parents pissed like never before. <60 days to gather signatures. If it gets on the ballot, they'll have to spend $100s of millions to defeat it, if they can.
Fantastic! Can you imagine the bumper sticker that points out how racist teachers unions and the Left are: "Keep non whites out of our private schools, vote No on vouchers".
Yep, they're not true libertarian policies, but nearly every so-called libertarian leader and group supports them. e.g. Cato, Reason, the "Independent" Institute, AEI, and the "Libertarian" Party.
Major exception, true libertarian Hans Herman-Hoppe.
Excellent piece.
Thank you :)
Agree. Emergency orders for 48 hours only until the legislature can be convened. No more legislation with wording "at the discretion of the bureaucrat or governor, etc"
48 hours max
Government should not have any emergency powers at all. Take away their power to abuse the citizens.
A major, narrow redefinition of what constitutes an emergency is in order in all jurisdictions. It must be immenent and not something that might happen. It must be physically apparent to all thoe to be affected by the measures to be taken. It must be so overwhelming that it cannot be handled by individuals and local governments. It must have concretely defined, measurable criteria for its end.
Government should not have any emergency powers. None at all.
do away with the "patriot" act already. HONK HONK!!
All of the emergency powers that the federal, state, and local governments have been giving themselves for the past decades need to be eliminated. Emergency powers are solely used for abuse of the public, nothing else.
Dr Brian Tyson is running for Congress.
That's fabulous! Maybe he can partner with Johnson to speak truth!
It must be so horribly painful for these ego maniacs to ever admit they’ve been wrong about anything. Considering how much agony they’ve caused millions (if not billions) over the past two years, I hope the pain doesn’t subside anytime soon.
Many will never admit it, thus avoiding the pain ... and reality.
One day we all have to face what we did, and if we lived in denial that moment will be all the more grueling. They're in for it unless they jump ship fast.
Pfuck him.
Albert Einstein wasn't "qualified" to teach high-school math or physics.
Thank God L.A. Unified requires "teaching credentials" or kids might get a crap education!🤣
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My favorite teacher, and one of my favorite movies - spoken as a former math teacher in minority high schools
Check this out:
https://www.californiaschoolchoice.org/
Should have a good shot with parents pissed like never before. <60 days to gather signatures. If it gets on the ballot, they'll have to spend $100s of millions to defeat it, if they can.
Is that racist?
I had covid. It sucked. But that guy sucks more. Science.
This guy's literally on Fauci's payroll, like most:
https://grantome.com/search?q=@author%20%20Alexander%20Dent
Great catch! Year after year after year
I was looking for the connection! Thank you InterestedLog for finding that bit of info! Pay off your many loans by tweeting! Never bite the hand that feeds you yes?
Well...there ya' go!
Great job.
Good one! Please keep up the good work.
There's no correlation between "educated" and "intelligent". Some of the smartest people I know have little or no formal education, and some of the dumbest people I know have more degrees than they can count.
“It is neither the level of our education nor the institution that educated us that makes any of us intelligent. Rather it is the willingness to challenge our present belief system, our openness to analyzing new knowledge, and our ability to critically think for ourselves independent of authority that makes us intelligent.” - JS Kim
Conflict of interest statement: I'm a retired computer engineer, with very little formal education after high-school.
Critical thinking and a willingness to research all sides of a problem are key.
And common sense is a prerequisite to critical thinking.
Mr Dent has proved, several times, that stupid is as stupid does…
...and, you can't fix stupid
Fuck this douchebag!!!
That’s his name, don’t wear it out
“Don’t wear a mask!” “Wear a mask!” “Wear two masks!” Wear three masks!” “Cloth masks don’t work!” “Only N95s will protect you!”
“If you’re vaccinated you can’t get covid.” “Vaccines are 100% effective at stopping covid.” “Vaccines are 96% effective.”
“Vaccines are 70% effective.” “Vaccines no longer effective after six months.” “Boosters are our only way out of covid.” “It is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
Just a sampling of the nonsense that has been spouting out of these morons pie holes.
Puppets pretty much sum up the above perfectly. This video has saved my sanity many days.
https://youtu.be/eyltmN--UIk
I deduced from the data I've seen from Israel that natural immunity is more effective than mRNA induced immunity.
Alan Hill, GED, DD-214
I was kicked off a local MeetUp site by a group administratior who started an altercation about masking that devolved into his bragging about his credentials while calling Ivermectin horse paste. Once the truth is out there and indisputable, that credentialed dope will still be asserting the CDC narrative of 2021. I take being off that site as a badge of honor.
What's wrong with horse-paste? Horses drink water too, don't they?
But they shoot horses, don't they?
Indeed. I think you're making my point.
Post secondary education has gone so far down hill over the last 40 years. It's pathetic.
Paul, you’d enjoy watching Dr Mobeen’s recent video on how a new monoclonal got a EUA from the FDA on the same basis (working in test tube) that critics used to lambast approval of ivermectin. There’s a lot more to this great take down, but the basic point is — the FDA is purely political and not science driven. To which I’d add, and that is why their top scientists resigned.
Never approach a horse from the rear
Never approach a bull from the front
Never listen to an idiot claiming to be an expert & know more than you,
from any angle.
I find “experts” are very useful for determining what not to believe.
exactly, they usually portray everything backwards anyway.
What a quick wit. Love it…..I’m going to remember what you just said,thanks.
Ooooh, very good!
The problem with people like him and Fauci etc. It has nothing to do with their credentials. Its the fact that you, Fauci etc refused to debate anybody with the same or better credentials is what makes you a clown! What kind of doctor or scientist doesn't allow debate? One thats full of sh!t
He sure doesn't fare well again a certain congressman that IS a real medical doctor.
Sorry everyone, I meant SENATOR! And sorry, Senator Paul!
Why debate when he can stonewall, condescend and lie, or so he seems to think.
I think he is just mad because no one wants to play with him anymore:)
And bluster that anyone who disagrees with him is a "science denier." I honestly think that science quit returning his calls a long time ago.
Because they don't understand exactly what "Credentials" EARN OUR TRUST.
Letters behind your name, or what you've published has some impact, but you must BE HONEST to be trusted. Admit you're wrong. Admit where you're uncertain. Admit that, "XYZ action reduces your risk, but you have to apply your own values to your own choices." etc.
In informal groups, I tend to be put off by those who tout their degrees unless it seems relevant. Frankly, I am more impressed meeting a Bob who is well-spoken and seems knowledgeable in conversation but perhaps not domineering. Only later I might learn he has a PhD in the topic. The world needs more people like Bob. Nobody should be called "Doctor" as a form of address unless you are speaking to a physician or your university professor, perhaps.
Dr. Biden
Perhaps being the key word. I don't acknowledge the honorifics.
Narcissistic Rage - "It is the narcissist’s thin skin and sensitivity that leads to this rage because of a deep-seated fear of being "found out" for not being the person they portray themselves to be."
Imposters syndrome on steroids …
He will love the New World Order.
He IS the New World Order. Scratch his surface and he probably bleeds Bill Gates' millions.
He looks fun.
He looks lonely
Nah. People who pour their heart out on Twitter usually have rich healthy social lives.
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Just a HOOT I bet!
People need to remember that science is something you do, not something you are, and the moment you start putting self interest or ideology above a commitment to truth, you aren't doing science any more. I have he greatest respect for experts who remain humble and honest. Those who aren't are giving expertise a bad name.
Fuck him and his "credentials".
WITH his credentials.
I feel so ashamed. There I was, listening to some rando named Michael Levitt on the internet. He won a Nobel prize thingy. (That's a participation award, right?) And those randos Sunetra Gupta and Jay Bhattacharya. What was I thinking?
The real experts have already spoken against this evil experiment and pandemic farce. He can go fuck himself and shove his degree up his arse!!
“…Dr. Anthony Fauci, previously the most respected medical voice in the country…” LOL. Says who? Sadly, for decades most of us were completely unaware of Dr. Mengele Fauci. That’s how he quietly amassed so much power. I guess ol’ Derelict Dent is counting on some grant money from Tony, so he’s gotta bow publicly at his alter.
Credentials LOL
He paid big bucks. Put his time in. Said what he needed to say. Learned what they wanted him to learn.
He gives away the real value of his credentials when he says vax immunity is better than natural immunity. Real genius. He says that and the wonders why people don't want to listen to him. He may as well just wear a badge that says: I'm a Friggin Moron But Listen To Me. I Have Credentials.
It's easy to confuse credentials with credibility. It's nice when they coincide, but they often do not. A nice Venn diagram may be helpful here, but you'll have to draw it for yourself.
follow the money: credentials are often tied to who pays the expert's salary.
In politics (and other areas), "follow the money" is good advice.
in science too: who pays for the research(facilities) and publishing the conclusions? qui bono indeed!
Expert opinion is level 5, the lowest level, of the hierarchy of scientific evidence. Likewise the computer modeling projections. The BIG F's politically driven and financially driven and conflict-riven pronouncements did not even make it into the hierarchy of scientific evidence. So that guy's rant is not about the science, clearly, but he, like BIG F, makes it all about ME-ME-ME. Not a good look for the face or the voice of THE SCIENCE.
Models mostly suck. I was a journalist for years and IT pros would explain why their population models of various wildlife in Wyoming, especially, were spot-on. But if you would go out into the areas where they modeled a population of 9,000 pronghorns and were allocated 1,000 hunting tags and then tried to find even 100 antelope, you sometimes could find zero. This wasn't a one-time thing, either. Modeling wildlife population numbers should be one of the easiest models, right? But they, quite frankly, were usually wrong, in some cases dramatically wrong.
During COVIDMANIA the experts have been projecting based on assumptions that are not based on hard science but on expert opinion. In some jurisdictions, like with the imposingingly labeled 'SCIENCE TABLE', modeling has been used like a Ouija Board to predict the future. So I ask people to imagine those credential scientists at the table with fingers on the Ouija Board with the lights dimmed and incense wafting in the air they breath. Of course, you must now think of the Science Table / Ouija Board as a group of fully vaxed and fully masked heros. Heh.
This is so true. It is like a seance, only summoning The Science instead of the spirits.
So, why, pray tell, can they accurately model viral transmission or climate change with thousands of input variables for the latter?
Haven't you answered your own question?
can they?
And will add that at least he dropped a link to some sci study -- as an afterthought, natch. He may have a good argument or he might have a good grasp of some of the evidence. Okay, step up and do an in-person face-to-face debate with someone like Dr McCullough, whose credentials might impress him at least.
I doubt it because he has already called him a quack which, honestly, is so juvenile I wouldn’t want Dr McC to waste his breathe: pearls, swine and all that.
The difference between arrogance and confidence is the difference between Dent and McCullough. When you watch the docs like McCullough or Malone or Alexander, in both formal and off-the-cuff moments, you see humility and confidence. When you catch men like Dent or Faucci off-script, you see arrogance and incompetence. I think arroagance often appears despite a person having high competence and expertise that is relevant; however, the lack of competence coupled with arroagance is a whole different thing. This is why it is important to scratch the surface, to look at the offered evidence, and then to engage in discourse. Believe me, my friend, I have engaged in such discussions with highly competent individuals whose fields are very challenging and more often than not the discussins can be pushed off the rails by arrogance and emotion. Yet the substance must remain despite the arrogance. And so when you test the evidence, and substance melts away, all that is left is arrogance, then, you can come to conclusions about the man as well as the evidence presented. When an arrogant person who is highy competent and highly devoted to truth discovers he was wrong or that the evidence is not as robust as once thought, he will be tested by his willingess to be humble before the reality. The arrogant with no basis cling to delusions instead. That can be foregiven when such a man openly resolves to re-calibrate and correctly stand on truth - on reality. Such victories are personal, for such a man, but are lived openly among peers. This is very difficult for many. Which is why the humility of men like McCullough, Malone, and Alexander is very touching and admirable.
In my experience, those who are truly at the "top of their game" know they have nothing to prove. They display a relaxed confidence and are curious and open to new ideas and perspectives.
If he believes in the Covid vaccine that much, he wouldn’t mind taking a couple hundred vials would he?
Challenge him to make a commitment. If one child dies from the C19 shots, then, he will go to the local surgery and volunteer one of his hands to be amputated. Too much, coz he needs both hands to keep his livelihood? Ok, he will sit in the penalty box for the credentialed-but-mistaken team and be barred from posting on social media or making public expression of his opinions for, let's say, two years. Still too much, coz freedom of expression? Alright, let's go easy on him. On every Saturday afternoon, for two years, he will wear a sandwich board that reads, I was wrong about C19 shots, and be required to walk up and down Main Street. Oh, too much, coz of public humiliation? Seems that there is no price he would pay for his wrongness but he is more than happy to pretty much inflict all of the above on highly credential doctors and scientists with whom HE disagrees. Big test of character. He'd fail. Most of the public experts reciting covidmania talking points and attitudes fail very, very, very quickly. But if you walk them through the challenge, they expose their own lack of respect for credentials and for the public response to the trust THEY have squandered.
We've educated ourselves into imbecility. -- GK Chesterton
Dent looks and acts like a burned out drunk. He’s not changing minds or making friends.
Mr Dent is a foul mouthed moron of no discernible value. Glad he’s unhappy.
Maybe the wizard can give him a brain to go with his credentials.
He's panicking that nobody cares about the letters after his name. We've been lied to and manipulated for too long. I watch Washington Journal on C-Span most mornings, it's not perfect but does give you a glimpse of the masses. I think the tables are turning. The majority of callers now have seen the light. We're sick of it and pushing back finally.
I had to laugh. My mother was a Ph.D., my brother is a Ph.D. I called my brother "doctor" one time and he said "don't do that again." I said why? You earned it. He said "The only thing that means is I could sit still for 8 years." Just because you went to school doesn't mean you know everything. Plenty of Ph.Ds., are wrong about stuff all the time. This guy didn't lose respect during the pandemic, he obviously never had it to begin with.
This reminds me of that guy from CNN complaining that Joe Rogan has 10x more viewers than them. 🤣🤣🤣
His impassioned tweets totally convinced me. What a fool I've been all along for not simply following him.
It serves to remind us of the "experts" vs. "we the great unwashed unbrainwashed". No skin in the game makes it easier to speak Truth.
“Fauci, the most respected medical voice”
Was he really? Or just that he held the purse strings. If he was so great, then name an accomplishment.
I guess he hasn't read The Real Anthony Fauci
Dr. Dent, could you identify this (these) random person(s) on social media? It would help a lot. As to your assertion Dr. Fauci was previously the most respected medical voice in the country; well, that is a stretch according to a relative of mine who attended conferences where Dr. Fauci was speaking in the 1990s. More to the point, did you ever receive any information from Dr. Fauci (or the CDC) to supplement 6,000 iu of Vitamin D3 daily, like he does? If you did not, you are not alone. Neither did I. How about that massive campaign by the CDC to encourage people to reduce their BMI? I missed all of the CDC outreach on that one, too. Dr. Dent, using your background in immunology, could you please provide a back of the envelope number of how many lives we could have saved in the US by pushing Vitamin D3 supplements and BMI reduction with as much vigor as the various levels of government have pushed mRNA vaccination?
Poor pathetic sap...natural immunity is always better than jab induced...always... and this joker is an immunology prof......good grief...Prof Alexander, please take your credentials and shove them where your dent is!
Credentials are simply the person's high opinion of themselves used to hide a faulty argument and their actual low self esteem. The first and biggest BS was and is a vaccine has superior immunity then mother nature. There are so many reasons why. All you need is common sense with or without credentials.
Appeal to authority, logical fallacy.
Rhetorical Fallacy, the appeal to authority. But if his expert opinion has merit, based on evidence and his comprehension of that evidence, then, he might openly enter scientific discourse with other experts who would gladly discuss the evidence as they comprehend it. But for some reason this has not been an option in the public square in which he, as a social media poster, has expressed himself. Not his fault, he might say, but then, given his heated opinion of the state of pubic discourse, he might then do his due diligence and SEEK OUT experts of different opinions than his own and PUBLIC DISCUSS that disagrement in the public square. SEEK THEM OUT. Promote THAT discussion.
Honk!
Moderna makes its mRNA one molecule at a time in machines conceptually like a 3D printer. They can't possibly be checking each amino acid. How many of these are defective? Even if each mRNA is perfect, what about short/long term unplanned effects?
No one is meaner than a potty-mouthed, godless liberal.
He is downright SCARY!!
Let me guess where/whom he gets his funding from.
I know, right?
Zero effs.... thanks for the chuckle
He should be sued for vaccine misinformation. It’s been known for more than 100yrs that natural immunity is superior to any vaccine.
The pinned tweet is a head scratcher. The paper referenced is from May '21 and has no data or references to the immune response from vaccinations for covid. The only reference is the conjecture in the Summary that "Together, these findings highlight the importance of current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, which are optimally formulated to induce protective MBC responses against the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2." Then, in the Discussion we get, "This is further evidence that widespread vaccination, which only elicits a response to the spike, may be critical to end the pandemic." No citations are offered.
This is not science. It is scientists looking for funding from all of the money being offered for research that encourages vaccinations.
I am tired of looking in the medical literature and seeing safe and effective when their data doesn't support it. Makes my head spin with the obligatory phrase to keep funding and to be politically correct. Looking forward to journals not funded by BP.
Oh, and SkyNet will become self-aware before this guy does.
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)))