“Fringe” Epidemiologists, and Why Whites Shouldn’t Support CRT

The powers-that-be have declared any epidemiologist who doesn’t toe their line to be a “fringe” epidemiologist. This includes someone at Harvard. See here. If an expert at Harvard can be declared to be part of a “fringe,” then no one is safe from their authoritarian tendencies. Then there is this sentence from the article:

Gonsalves’s grievance was that by interviewing Kulldorff, Jacobin had broken the lockdown “solidarity” of other far-left websites including the Nation and the Boston Review.

Solidarity? I hadn’t known that that was the way that science was run. Our era is as conformist as anything from the 1950s. They just don’t want to admit it.

And then there is this:

Multiple sources ... have noted that Fauci ... seldom reads the scientific literature on Covid-19 himself....

Is anyone surprised?

Meanwhile, this post from Legal Insurrection about a George Will column in the Washington Post debunking the 1619 nonsense shows that the powers-that-be can re-write history so that your support for some idealistic cause didn’t occur or that you supported the exact opposite. Will writes that colonists in the North were interested in abolitionism at the time of the Revolutionary War, something I hadn’t known and which I certainly would not have learned from our progressives, yet progressives talk as though they were interested in preserving and not abolishing slavery. For that matter, I recall that progressives decades ago impugned the motives of Civil War soldiers who fought for the North, refusing to believe that any of them were actually fighting to destroy slavery. No, it had to be some baser feelings that motivated them.

Why support any idealistic cause if later generations are going to lie about you and say you supported the exact opposite?

Comments

[Charles N. Steele]

“Why support any idealistic cause if later generations are going to lie about you and say you supported the exact opposite?”

You’d do it because it was worth doing. You don’t undertake Nobel causes simply to get accolades from later generations. And if malicious human trash such as progressives and critical race theorists and 1619ers lie about you, we’ll, that’s a badge of honor.

[Charles N. Steele]

That was supposed to say “noble” causes, not “Nobel” causes. Heh!

[John Pepple]

It works with either spelling!

Yes, of course, one would do it if it were worth doing. I'm only trying to get progressives to think carefully about how they talk about people from the past. Not that they ever will, of course.

[Harland]

The left is prone to infighting, and knows it. Thus they reject criticism of whatever the hivemind decides is legitimate, even if the criticism is correct.

The only result is more infighting, followed by the right spotlighting how the left is stupid and not interested in facts yet again.