Originally published via American Thinker:
Consider Carl Sagan’s warning here – resurfaced by Jimmy Dore — taken from an interview with Charlie Rose, way before COVID-19 or any of the other permanent technocracy-mediated emergencies emerged.
The entire ethos of actual science in practice – to bastardize a phrase from Ronald Reagan, if you will permit – is “distrust and verify.”
Scientists are humans. Humans are not gods. Ergo, scientists are not God, no matter how much Swamp creatures such as Anthony Fauci insist to the contrary.
For that matter, government bureaucrats are just humans – and, generally speaking, not particularly admirable or honorable ones.
“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”
-H. L. Mencken
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