It’s Now Clearer Than Ever Before, Science Bends Itself To Fit Left-Wing Politics
From The Daily Caller by Michael Bastasch Contributor June 20, 2020
I don’t know if you heard, but according to the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), we only have six months left to prevent total climate change disaster.
“This year is the last time we have, if we are not to see a carbon rebound,” IEA executive director Fatih Birol told the Guardian on Thursday in an article with the headline: “World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert.”
Birol continued:
“If emissions rebound, it is very difficult to see how they will be brought down in future. This is why we are urging governments to have sustainable recovery packages.”
I’m old enough to remember when we still had 12 years left to save the planet just two years ago. That dire prediction was just as laughable as what Birol is saying today. The scientific “consensus” we used to hear so much about doesn’t support this alarmist claim at all.
What’s really going on is that Birol is using his cachet as a prominent “expert” to push bogus claims to further his political agenda. Those goals also rather conveniently align with the wishes of Democrats and the liberal media.
We’ve recently seen a lot of this type of weaponizing of science for political purposes. A couple weeks ago, we learned of one of the most egregious examples of this to date.
Late last month, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, the Lancet, published a huge study purporting to find that the decades-old anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID patients.
To sum it all up, this observational study of 96,000 patients around the world found that treating COVID patients with hydroxychloroquine increased their risk of death by 34 percent, and there was a 137 percent increased risk for heart arrhythmias.
Since President Trump came out as supportive of using hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus, the liberal media quickly pounced. The study’s release also conveniently came after the Lancet put out a shockingly unusual editorial statement opposing Trump’s reelection.
“Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics,” the journal editorial board wrote.
All the pieces were in place for the media and medical establishment to set a new narrative — hydroxychloroquine kills! And President Trump is responsible for those deaths.
Amid all the alarm, the World Health Organization and National Institutes of Health temporarily halted clinical trials into hydroxychloroquine. The hype also made it harder for doctors and researchers to recruit volunteers for hydroxy studies.
Given the real world consequences, we have to ask, did anyone in the media or medical community really take the time to read the Lancet’s new bombshell study?
Thankfully, curious reporters at the Guardian (yes, the same Guardian that published the climate drivel I mentioned earlier) did take the time to read it and found what they called “glaring errors” in the study’s data on Australia.
But that wasn’t all — the Guardian found more problems with the data, and then they raised serious questions about the U.S.-based company that provided it.
The Guardian reported:
“[T]he US-based company Surgisphere, whose handful of employees appear to include a science fiction writer and an adult-content model … has so far failed to adequately explain its data or methodology.”
After Surgisphere’s CEO refused to hand over his data to independent investigators, the Lancet, to its credit, withdrew the study. Lancet editor Richard Horton called these revelations “a shocking example of research misconduct in the middle of a global health emergency.”
What’s really shocking is that the Lancet’s crack team of peer-reviewers missed all of this! Hydroxychloroquine was approved by the FDA decades ago, and has a long record of safety. Doctors around the world are also using the drug to treat thousands of COVID patients, mostly reporting positive results.
One has to wonder if the journal’s clear political bias and contempt for President Trump played a role. And if it did, will they and the media lackeys who peddled this study apologize to the patients who may have been denied this potentially life-saving drug?
Unfortunately, the scientific misconduct didn’t end there. After months of telling us the science demanded strict lockdown policies, which meant no large gatherings of any kind were safe, the scientific consensus all of the sudden shifted from pro-social distancing to pro-social justice.
“White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19,” over 1,200 experts wrote in an open letter released in the wake of the protesting, rioting and looting sparked by the tragic death of George Floyd, an African American man, while in the custody of police.
“Protests against systemic racism, which fosters the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black communities and also perpetuates police violence, must be supported,” the letter continued.
Apparently, racism is the real public health crisis and the “science” demands that people march (or loot or riot) in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and its radical leftist political goals, which include defunding the police.
Somehow those types of protests are scientifically sound, but according to those same scientists, protesting the crushing lockdown policies of blue state governors is not just dangerous, but evil!
“Those actions not only oppose public health interventions, but are also rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives,” they wrote.
All this was interesting given the heavy focus in the media on the coronaviruses’ disproportionate impact on minorities, particularly African Americans. Of course, this too was chalked up to racism.
Most notably, the media and the medical class completely dismiss any concerns that weeks of mass protesting in the streets — with many people crowded together and many not wearing masks — will cause a spike in COVID cases.
Meanwhile, these same experts have no problem helping the media hype the rise in coronavirus cases in Trump country. It was also quite amusing to watch the liberal media trip over itself condemning planned Trump campaign rallies as dangerous.
Is it any wonder why American’s trust in the media has plummeted over the last few years? And the scientists, doctors and health experts will soon suffer the same fate if they continue skewing the science for partisan and ideological reasons.
Doctor Anthony Fauci, who’s on the White House COVID task force, lamented the lost faith in science, but he doesn’t blame the scientists, he blames the American people.
“One of the problems we face in the United States is that unfortunately, there is a combination of an anti-science bias … they just don’t believe science and they don’t believe authority,” Fauci said in a Department of health and Human Services podcast.
“When they see someone up in the White House, which has an air of authority to it, who’s talking about science, that there are some people who just don’t believe that — and that’s unfortunate because, you know, science is truth,” Fauci added.
Is it the “truth” that white supremacy is a public health crisis? Well, scientists said it, so according to Fauci, it must be. And going back to my first point, should we really be worried that we only have six months left to prevent catastrophic global warming? We’re told that’s what the “science” says, and as we know, science is the truth.
People understand that science is a process and as we learn more it can change, but that’s not what we’ve seen play out over the past few weeks. Instead we’ve seen the experts and media figures we’re supposed to trust invoke the word “science” to further their political ends — actual facts and evidence be damned.
“Is it the “truth” that white supremacy is a public health crisis?”
No.
There is no white supremacy.
White supremacy suggest that something/someone was teaching such a
thing. Or at least someone can point to it, and say, there is what I mean by
“White supremacy”.
There is something one call Marxism or Marxists. It’s taught.
Not saying it’s taught well. And there are people who follow stupid ideas.
One could also in governmental system or nation which could be called
Marxist. There isn’t really such a nation, but one say Cuba was following Marxism and it’s people are Marxist. So go to Cuba, ask someone if they are Marxist and they might say yes {or no}. Assuming they say yes, one can ask what is being a Marxist.
Point is one could find such a person, maybe. But there system in Cuba which actually teaching what would be called Marxism and people could claim they are Marxist.
While in Cuba, one ask someone, if there is white supremacy? And they might say, yes. And then you ask who are they? And they could say, it’s the white people who opposing us.
If you had 1/2 brain, you know the people opposing Cubans, is their government.
The upshot is to have white supremacy, it’s actually required that there are people who might say they belong to white supremacy. And could manage to explain even if in idiotic way, what it was.
And if there is white supremacy in America, you need a government and/or some other church/institution/school teaching it.
Or should be books on the topic.
But what you do have in America is lots of people are clueless on basic things- due a very poor educational system. And basically regarded as mostly important because functions as day care for children.
So if white supremacy existed, one could find it being taught in US public schools.
But it’s taught like the idea there space aliens living on Earth.
You might find someone who claims they are actually a space alien. That would easier to find then a white supremacist.
Now, there is a group called the KKK, an actual group formed by Dems, and there were former members of KKK who were Dems who was once in the US congress.
I would call the KKK stupid racist, they followed stupid racist ideas.
Most people disassociate themselves from this group.
And such people fear there are going extinct, or quite pathetic group of people. Or they imagine they too stupid to continue to exist, and they got that one thing, right.
If you want to be ironic, you can call them white supremacists.
But the public can ignore them- I assume that the FBI would pay some attention to them- as well as numerous other hate groups. As there a lot crime- connected to such groups. Stupid groups are predictably going involved with crime more often, then less stupid groups
Anybody who thinks Lancet is “prestigious” has not been paying attention. It left science way back during the Bush administration.
the CDC here in the USA has now informed me the seasonal allergy congestion i have been getting for decades is no longer due to allergies, it is now covid 19……
I am old enough to remember when the sea level was at a certain point on the coast where I lived and still visit many years later. The sea level has NOT risen one freaking millimeter. Bent science is like bent people, they tend to lie.
Sorry Henry,
Science didn’t give us the transistor. It was the result of a lab accident….
But a really beneficial one….
Mike Bentley
Where did you hear that tale?
From what I’ve read, the transistor effect was predicted, then a device was built to demonstrate it.
… we only have six months left to prevent total climate change disaster…. – article
I don’t think we have that much time left. Winter will be here soon, probably sooner than usual, and will stick around until it feels like leaving. Might not leave until next June, considering that a temperature of 100F was recorded in Siberia just the other day. Hot spots need love, too. But we still have snow falling in various places, and it’s June, for Pete’s sake! All those conventions and rallies just add more CO2 to the atmosphere, and it doesn’t help that the Mobs of WHEE (We Hate Everyone Else) gather together like lemmings in a panic attack.
Has anyone taken CO2 measurements before and after those riots and rallies? No? Well, then how is this prediction supposed to be accurate, huh? Maybe this severe climate change projection could be modified into a lesser threat if those silly rioters and mob-bunchers just stayed home and watched things on TV.
(If you take what I wrote seriously, you’re knutzen.)
The was going to end before 2000 (food, population pollution, ice age), then by 2000 (year 2000 bug), then by 2012 (some Maya or Aztec calendar prediction), then by 2020, then by 2050, then by 2039, then by 2030-2032…etc.
So WHEN are people finally going to understand that all these predictions have one thing in common?
SCARE MONGERING.
They are all wrong. They will always be wrong. The only things that can end human civilizations are asteroids (unpredictable) and viruses (unpredictable). Oh…and liberals – forgot those.
I have consulted the Science and 97 percent of scientists agree that I’m a good guy and everybody should just get off my back. Now I’m not going to tell you again.
Mark,
You are correct, the three researchers were working on the theory, but the actual device that succeeded was the result of at least serendipity…
The Bell Labs story is that the “chip” that demonstrated amplification was the result of an accidental overdoping.
Another story is that one of the researchers washed the chip in a thermos bottle to remove condensation.
Whatever legend you choose to believe, the actual success is the result of – well- a lucky error.
I miss Bell Labs, a pure research organization that helped us all along with
The Big Bang Theory – by trying to located a 41 MHZ signal thought to be Pigeon poop.
The first successful transistor –
The Nyquist theory of signal sampling
The laser
Fiber optic development
and so much more….
Mike
10+
it seems to me maybe President Trump should use the Bart simpson method of getting things done, just tell them the exact opposite of what he needs done and is will be good with our planet. Another thing can we stop with the Mask of the red death narrative, research is out ladies and gentlemen and they do nothing to stop the virus. Texas can you hear me..
normal is as normal does, have a mask free day
Here are two doctors (real MD, not PhD experts) talking about the problem of scientific integrity. Perhaps lives could be saved if we had the proper treatment available. Also, covid patients were moved from hospitals to nursing homes in NY and other states within the USA.
https://youtu.be/aaxKIivS79g
Not just “science” being bent to the narrative;
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://surgisphere.com/
Someone does want someone to go digging…
*EDIT*
does NOT