The Curse Of "Experts"
From Woodrow Wilson till today, "experts" running America have kept us running in place or in reverse, always with disastrous results.
The White House Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
The Declaration of Independence did not mention the questions of our day. It is of no consequence to us…. - President Woodrow Wilson
All you need to know about his thoughts on America, its Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Wilson attended Johns Hopkins University, a classic Prussian style institution as I described in a previous essay, How Education was Destroyed in America, which partly explains his leftist/socialist leanings.
Wilson argued that the separation-of-powers system was both inefficient and irresponsible. Separation of powers was inefficient because it prevented government from solving the problems of modern life in a coordinated way; instead, the various organs of government were busy attacking and struggling against one another. It was irresponsible because the system made it difficult for the government to implement new public policy, even when the new policy reflected a clear new direction in public opinion.
The administrative state represents a new and pervasive form of rule, and a perversion of constitutional self-government. It has deep theoretical roots that were overlooked for a long time, roots inimical to the Constitution, thereby providing a lesson in the importance of understanding the principles of the Constitution.
From “Politics and Administration: A Study in Government”: by Frank Goodnow, a prominent political scientist of the Progressive Era and one of Wilson’s teachers:
The fact is, then, that there is a large part of administration which is unconnected with politics, which should therefore be relieved very largely, if not altogether, from the control of political bodies. It is unconnected with politics because it embraces fields of semi-scientific, quasi-judicial and quasi-business or commercial activity—work which has little if any influence on the expression of the true state will.
For the most advantageous discharge of this branch of the function of administration there should be organized a force of government agents absolutely free from the influence of politics. Such a force should be free from the influence of politics because of the fact that their mission is the exercise of foresight and discretion, the pursuit of truth, the gathering of information, the maintenance of a strictly impartial attitude toward the individuals with whom they have dealings, and the provision of the most efficient possible administrative organization.
The position assigned to such officers should be the same as that which has been by universal consent assigned to judges. Their work is no more political in character than is that of judges.
expert
: one with the special skill or knowledge representing mastery of a particular subject - Merriam - Webster
When you tout yourself as an expert, whether you have proof or are able to lay down enough B.S., there are always enough people willing to “buy” what you are selling, whether it makes any sense or not.
The New Deal
On May 6, 1939, Henry Morgenthau, Roosevelt’s treasury secretary, confirmed the total failure of the New Deal to stop the Great Depression: “We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. . . . I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. . . . And an enormous debt to boot!”
It actually caused the Great Depression to be dragged out for almost 15 years, till WWII, which some say is why “circumstances” were contrived to get us involved. After the horrors of WWI, Americans absolutely had no desire to get into another world conflict.
The Great Society
As of 2019, more than $23 trillion was spent on roughly 80 welfare programs in President Lyndon Johnson's “War on Poverty” declared in 1965. With over $1 trillion and an increasing amount being spent each year since. With absolutely no end in sight, poverty is, in fact, increasing exponentially in cities like San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.
So much for “experts”.
The “welfare state” ruined American families, particularly black ones
According to the late, great George Mason University Economist, Walter Williams:
Courtesy cnbc.com Walter Williams
Today the overwhelming majority of black children are raised in single female-headed families. As early as the 1880s, three-quarters of black families were two-parent. In 1925 New York City, 85 percent of black families were two-parent. One study of 19th-century slave families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children had the same mother and father.
Today's black illegitimacy rate of nearly 75 percent is also entirely new. In 1940, black illegitimacy stood at 14 percent. It had risen to 25 percent by 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" and was widely condemned as a racist. By 1980, the black illegitimacy rate had more than doubled, to 56 percent, and it has been growing since. Both during slavery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among blacks.
Ignored in all discussions is the fact that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994.
Did an overdose of aspirin actually cause a majority of 1918 “Spanish Flu” deaths?
Before the spike in deaths attributed to the Spanish Flu in 1918, the U.S. Surgeon General, Navy and the Journal of the American Medical Association had all recommended the use of aspirin. Medical professionals advised patients to take up to 30 grams per day, a dose now known to be toxic. (For comparison’s sake, the medical consensus today is that doses above four grams are unsafe.) Symptoms of aspirin poisoning include hyperventilation and pulmonary edema, or the buildup of fluid in the lungs, and it’s now believed that many of the October deaths were actually caused or hastened by aspirin poisoning.
Another one for “the experts”!
Accounts from doctors at the time:
I did not lose a single case of influenza; my death rate in the pneumonias was 2.1%. The salycilates, including aspirin and quinine, were almost the sole standbys of the old school and it was a common thing to hear them speaking of losing 60% of their pneumonias.
~Dudley A. Williams, MD, Providence, Rhode Island.There is one drug which directly or indirectly was the cause of the loss of more lives than was influenza itself. You all know that drug. It claims to be salicylic acid. Aspirin’s history has been printed. Today you don’t know what the sedative action of salicylic acid is. It did harm in two ways. It’s indirect action came through the fact that aspirin was taken until prostration resulted and the patient developed pneumonia.
~Frank L. Newton, MD, Somerville, MassachusettsThree hundred and fifty cases and lost one, a neglected pneumonia that came to me after she had taken one hundred grains of aspirin in twenty-four hours.
~Cora Smith King, MD, Washington, DC
“Experts” warning of Global Cooling, then Warming, then “Climate Change”
And every time we come up on a new deadline that nothing happened, the “experts” create a new one! Now “the earth is BOILING!
Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about? - Maurice Strong, the father of global warming, organizer and opening speaker at the UN climate conference in Brazil in 1992
Strong’s resume is too lengthy to fit in here. Its highlights include leadership or advisory positions with the World Bank, World Resources Institute, World Wildlife Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and UN agencies like the Business Council, World Economic Forum, UNESCO (Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), and the Commission on Global Governance.
Global warming/climate change have nothing to do with altering the environment and everything to do with controlling you!
This conference is where the The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (IPCC), was created along with Agenda 21, the UN plan to control you. If the locality you live in has a Growth Management Act, your local government willingly or unwillingly is following Agenda 21, now updated to Agenda 2030, or “You'll Own Nothing And Be Happy!”
How do we know even the “experts” don’t believe what they are peddling?
We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. - Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO), UN climate conference, Brazil, 1992
Wirth, till 2013, headed the U.N. Foundation which lobbies for hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help underdeveloped countries fight climate change.
A global warming treaty [Kyoto] must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect. - Deputy Assistant of State Richard Benedick, who then headed the policy divisions of the U.S. State Department, UN climate conference, Brazil, 1992
Phil and I are likely to have to respond to more crap criticisms from the idiots in the near future. - From: Michael Mann. To: Phil Jones and Gabi Hegerl (University of Edinburgh). Date: Aug 10, 2004
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. - From Phil Jones, (head of the East Anglia University's Climatic Research Unit) To: Michael Mann, (Pennsylvania State University). Date: May 29, 2008
The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. Okay it has but it is only seven years of data and it isn't statistically significant. - Phil Jones, former head of Environmental Studies, East Anglia University
As you know, I’m not political. If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish. - Phil Jones, former head of Environmental Studies, East Anglia University
..one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.. - IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer, speaking in November 2010
Where did the "settled science of climate change", aka, the “97% consensus of scientists” actually come from?
The "settled science of climate change" quoted by Obama and all the doomsayers comes from a survey conducted for a thesis by a University of Illinois graduate student who, having received 3,146 responses to a two-question online questionnaire sent to 10,257 earth scientists, eventually identified 77 “experts” of which 75 (97%) were found to agree with the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis. There’s no word as yet on the identity and views of the other 10,180!
Fun facts
Science is never settled! It is a constant process of observing, asking questions, and seeking answers through tests and experimentation. Anyone telling you different is a liar!
Bottom line, Climate models reflect just the modelers current theory of cloud and water vapor changes, not reality. The scientific method requires that when theory conflicts with empirical measurements, the theory should be modified to agree with the measurements. The IPCC falsely treats computer model output as evidence of climate sensitivity. Climate sensitivity estimates should be based only on observational studies during the instrumental period.
Not only is carbon dioxide's total greenhouse effect puny, mankind's contribution to it is minuscule. The overwhelming majority (97%) of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere comes from nature, not from man. Volcanoes, swamps, rice paddies, fallen leaves, and even insects and bacteria produce carbon dioxide, as well as methane. According to the journal Science (Nov. 5, 1982), termites alone emit ten times more carbon dioxide than all the factories and automobiles in the world.
In the 70’s we were headed for an ice age
Another “expert”, Al Gore. His “Inconvenient Truth”, gave children nightmares
Al Gore claimed he raised 10,000 chickens as a boy in Tennessee, despite spending his whole childhood in a Washington DC apartment with his racist Senator father. Al Gore made millions off this global warming scam he was/is running. He even started trading “carbon credits” at the Commodities Exchange in Chicago! His homes burn enormous amounts of fossil fuel, and he even has beach front property. Proof he doesn't believe anything he is shoveling.
Gore is chairman of a London based company called “Generation Investment Management”.
But a recent analysis by Bloomberg News found that Generation’s Global Equity fund, which numbers a total of 42 companies, includes 18 firms which emitted increasingly more greenhouse gases annually between 2015 and 2021.
Bloomberg ranked Generation, which has $40.4 billion worth of assets under its management, as among the companies that owned the greatest share of greenhouse gas-emitting firms when compared to other funds that placed a priority on so-called ESG — environmental, social and governance — investing.
Michael Mann and the infamous “hockey stick theory”
From approximately 900 to 1100 AD, (the Medieval Warm Period), the Romans grew grapes in Britain. "Greenland" was called that by the Vikings for a reason, no glacial ice, 700 years BEFORE the Industrial Revolution! Not long after, approximately 1450 to 1850 AD, (the Little Ice Age), the Thames River had FEET of ice on it! Trees exploded from the built-up ice in them. That is not an opinion. THAT is a fact! Michael Mann EXCLUDED these two mainstays of traditional climate science to create the infamous "hockey stick theory", that global temperatures sharply increased with the Industrial Revolution. Mann’s M.O. is to sue and bankrupt critics. Mann sued Dr. Timothy Ball for libel when he contradicted his manufactured data.
Mann's lawsuit against Dr. Timothy Ball was eventually thrown out by the Supreme Court of British Columbia when Mann refused to provide the math on how he reached his conclusions. Mann was ordered to pay court costs, which in all likelihood he never did. Because Mann dragged it out for 10 years, Dr. Ball was practically bankrupted and his health suffered. He died in 2022. Timothy Ball was a great and brave man who fought ferociously to expose the global warming/climate change scam. Here he is receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award in Climate Science and explaining how Maurice Strong crafted and concealed the plan for world control as solving global warming/climate change.
NOAA and NASA have been caught manipulating temperature data
NOAA has been caught exaggerating recent temperatures stating they began rising about 50 years ago when they were actually higher back in the 1930’s and have been declining ever since.
These data are quality controlled and may not be identical to the original observations. - An actual statement from NOAA
NASA altered its original temperature data so that the temperature for the years 1905 – 1940 was lowered, and the data for the years 1940 – 2010 were raised, creating an upward trend in temperature over the entire time period, when the original, unaltered data actually shows a cooling trend.
NASA and NOAA “scientists” are not ideologically neutral researchers living in a vacuum. They do not exist in an ivory tower of data purity. They are bureaucrats, rendering bureaucratic interpretations of climate data, and their opinions are framed by the institutional imperative of obedience to political necessity. Any NOAA or NASA employee who dares to question the prevailing party line would be committing career ending suicide. - Collister Johnson CFACT Editor
When “global warming” was proven to be practically non- existent, it morphed to “climate change”
And every weather event is now proof of humanity's effect on the environment, “climate change”! With all the accompanying necessary hysteria:
Left, Old school weather forecast, happy and sunshiny.
Right, new style weather forecast designed to look like fear and destruction. It’s called SUMMER.
There are temperatures on the left side actually higher than on the scary right side.
Unbelievers, “heretics”, are called “climate deniers” and Obama was actually asked to prosecute them!
Scientists from several universities and research centers even asked Obama to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to prosecute groups that “have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America’s response to climate change.”
Careers of distinguished scientists and professors were and are still being destroyed simply for asking questions.
“Experts” create cults of unquestioning true believers
The “experts” were and are lying about global warming and climate change!
Scientists have a horrible record when it comes to making climate change predictions. Whether it was global cooling in the 1970s or the current cultlike behavior warning of global warming, the only consistency about climate science is its inconsistency. It’s time to stop treating it like it is an absolute truth. If they were wrong before, there’s nothing to suggest they will not be wrong again. - Christopher Tremoglie
Planting trees was the way to reduce CO2. Now we are to CUT THEM DOWN and BURY THEM?
From:
The “carbon sequestration” scam
Billions of dollars and thousands of acres in the U.S. being seized thru the falsehood of public use and eminent domain, to lay pipeline to buried containers for CO2.
California moves back toward natural gas and nuclear just to keep the lights on
Three years ago, there were rolling blackouts in California. By September 2022, while Newson was begging Californians to turn off their lights, he was also begging green energy allies to unplug their EVs. Frequent brownouts and calls to not charge your EV because the state is out of power isn’t the best way to sell people on “we’re going 100% renewable!”
Now, Newsom is “blessing” the continued use of natural gas and nuclear power that he campaigned on shutting down over time. Notwithstanding his posturing for cameras he’s dealing with the reality that, if he wants to keep the lights on and EVs charged, there is no other choice but to keep gas and nuclear power-generated plants operational.
Despite California's abject failure at 100% green energy, states are still like lemmings off a cliff, including my state of Washington, following its examples.
What do we know about “green energy”?
Solar panels don't work at night.
Solar panels are not recyclable.
Wind turbines don't work when the wind is not blowing or if is blowing too hard have to be locked down or they will destroy themselves.
Turbine blades are not recyclable.
The inadequacy of battery storage. From a Woods McKenzie study:
The critical factor in 100-percent renewable energy with no nuclear power depends on the future of utility-scale battery storage. The firm estimated that 1,600 gigawatts of new wind and solar capacity would be required to replace all U.S. fossil fuel generation and 900 gigawatts of battery storage backup would be needed. There are only 5.5 gigawatts of battery storage world-wide in operation or under construction. If wind or solar replaced a 2-gigawatt nuclear power plant, and batteries provided the only backup, 6 to 8 gigawatts of battery storage would be required.
Part II: Are there more “experts” unwittingly or purposefully attempting to control your life?
It is easier to fool people than convince them that they have been fooled. - Mark Twain
Wow! This is one I do lot have to write about!
Sodomites running the USSA since 1871, who knew????