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‘The Pretense of Knowledge’ has Cost America Dearly

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/the_pretense_of_knowledge_has_cost_america_dearly.html Sweden’s approach was a mixture of epidemiology and principle. Erixon noted that the concept of a national lockdown is “deeply illiberal — and, until now, untested.” He allowed that Sweden may change if facts warrant. “But,” he wrote, “the vast majority, for now, want Sweden to keep its cool. We don’t want to remember…

Blue states failed the most vulnerable among us

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/04/blue_states_failed_the_most_vulnerable_among_us_.html Meanwhile, most if not all of the governors of the states listed above forced hospitalized patients with the virus (or whose status with respect to the virus was not confirmed) to be discharged to nursing homes, creating a perfect storm for the infection to rage out of control in these facilities. These same governors…

The Thin Façade of Authority

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https://amgreatness.com/2020/04/12/the-thin-facade-of-authority/ Sometime in the late 19th century, the wide-scale growth of graduate education, professional schooling, and the formal granting of a M.D., Ph.D., or J.D. were necessary antidotes to quackery and the dangers of autodidactic expertise masquerading as the product of the scientific method. But in the last two centuries, that notion of argument from…

Our Titanic moment and the puncturing of illusions

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No, I am calling it our “Titanic moment” not because I think we’re doomed, but because this pandemic, much like the sinking of the “unsinkable Titanic,” is our “moment of truth”: the puncturing of that illusion that “man has nature whacked.” Nature repeatedly shows that she still has her ways of whacking back.