Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Found their spines
The folks at Spiked UK were weakening for a while. Now they seem to have recovered their spines and stiffened their upper lips.
This useful article lists a growing (but still minuscule) set of CURRENTLY EMPLOYED HIGHLY PLACED PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS who are calling out the "shutdown" holocaust. Ioannidis broke the barrier, now others feel a bit bolder.
The sane authorities won't have any effect, but at least this is an interesting exception to the failure of Guilds that I've seen in recent disasters.
A guild or union is supposed to defend the SKILLS and PRINCIPLES of the trade or profession against contraband and counterfeit, just as a money bank defends money capital against counterfeit.
The guilds in science have utterly failed in three major areas:
1. "Social" "science" has never complained about the psychologists who use their skills to design torture chambers and train torturers. This has been going on for 100 years.
2. Economists have never complained about the total violation of all basic economics in TARP, ZIRP, QE, MMT, ETC.
3. Nobody in science has ever called out the "global warming" hoaxers.
When a guild fails to control counterfeit skill capital, the entire profession becomes counterfeit, and its authority has exactly zero value.
So it's sort of vaguely interesting to see pointless vain quiet delicate complaints on this subject. If they start getting LOUD and HARDASS and SERIOUS, maybe it will be more than interesting, but that won't happen.
Later, more encouraging: Even Deutsche Welle is starting to ask the right questions!
Labels: skill-estate
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