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So, yesterday, to no acclaim at all (seriously people, crickets) I emitted a tweetstorm about a Harvard study that was being used to justify demands for 5 MILLION tests a day in the US before we could fully reopen the country. https://twitter.com/Loneprotester/status/1252609930441474054?s=20
Today I will foolishly revisit this topic to answer the following questions:
Who are the "experts" behind the "scientific studies" breathlessly touted by the MSM in the current pandemic?
Do they have any scientific qualifications at all? (This is foreshadowing people).
Who are the "experts" behind the "scientific studies" breathlessly touted by the MSM in the current pandemic?
Do they have any scientific qualifications at all? (This is foreshadowing people).
Are they pulling numbers out of their asses half the time? (What do you think?)
Are the targets constantly moving, as the last one was hit, apparently for no reason whatsoever except to stay one step ahead of Orange Man and give the MSM something to hyperventilate over? Yup.
Are the targets constantly moving, as the last one was hit, apparently for no reason whatsoever except to stay one step ahead of Orange Man and give the MSM something to hyperventilate over? Yup.
I think the most interesting aspect of this particular study is that there are so many Microsoft and Gates Foundation ties to its authors, that it's practically an interoffice memo.
Of the 23 authors, 6 are listed straight off as Microsoft employees.
Of the 23 authors, 6 are listed straight off as Microsoft employees.
But many others, like Dakota Gruener, have worked directly for the Gates Foundation, or in roles funded by Gates' grants. https://www.salesforce.com/video/449313/
Many of these "experts" are actually techies, with a heavy concentration on machine learning.
A surprising number, including the lead author herself, are from the worlds of philosophy, ethics, and classics.
So, experts of a sort, but not on matters of Pandemic testing per se.
A surprising number, including the lead author herself, are from the worlds of philosophy, ethics, and classics.
So, experts of a sort, but not on matters of Pandemic testing per se.
Would it surprise any of you to learn that more than a few of these "experts" worked in some capacity for the Obama administration?
Most prominently, perhaps, Anne Marie Slaughter, who worked under Hillary Clinton at the State Dept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie_Slaughter
Most prominently, perhaps, Anne Marie Slaughter, who worked under Hillary Clinton at the State Dept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Marie_Slaughter
But there is also Alison Stanger, who served as an advisor to the State Department and has written at least one anti-Trump book, "Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump." http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ps/faculty/node/25611
E. Glen Weyl manages to square the circle, as a highly paid Microsoft drone who is ALSO a free-floating radical, artist, and voice for revolutionary change. Cool.
http://glenweyl.com/biography/
http://glenweyl.com/biography/
There are also a handful of vaguely conservative Never-Trumpers on the author list, including an economist I have long admired and follow on twitter, @ATabarrok.
Care to comment on this thread, Alex?
Care to comment on this thread, Alex?
