Pattern Recognition

I don’t believe the doomsayers. In reply, they call me a science denier. Actually, I’m practicing a different kind of science – pattern recognition – which informs my analysis.

Most political hoaxes are based on the logical fallacy “Appeal to Authority.” The hoax follows a familiar pattern. Once you recognize the pattern, the hoax is obvious.

“There are only a few years left to save the planet from global climate change. No, you can’t see my data, you aren’t capable of understanding it. I am a climate scientist. You must trust me and do as I say.”

“The Second Amendment does not protect a personal right to bear arms. We know this because hardly anybody owned guns in colonial America. No, you can’t see my probate court data, you aren’t capable of understanding it. I am a historian. You must trust me and do as I say.”

“There is no evidence the election was stolen. No, you can’t see the ballot counting software, you’re not capable of understanding it. I am an election official. You must trust me and do as I say.”

It never works, of course. The truth leaks out eventually. Michael Mann’s climate change “hockey stick” graph has been thoroughly discredited. Michael Bellesiles’ probate court research was simply made up. Statistical analysis shows significant election fraud occurred. These were not cases of “science” being challenged or denied, they were cases of “science” being manipulated and distorted to promote a specific political agenda. Once it became clear the “science” didn’t say what the proponents claimed it said, the hoax was laid bare for all to see – all who were willing to see. Not everybody is willing to see.

And now this: “The Covid virus is deadly to everyone of all ages. Only the Pfizer vaccine can save you from it. No, you can’t see my data, you aren’t capable of understanding it. I am a medical doctor. You must trust me and do as I say.”

The funding and origin of the virus is shrouded in lies. Mortality statistics are inflated even as breakthrough cases are undercounted and vaccine adverse reactions are downplayed. Policies of lockdown, masks, social distance, mandatory vaccination are based on assertions, not evidence, backed by threat of prosecution and financial ruin, but only for those who lack political privilege.

The existence of the Covid virus is not a hoax. The panic response to the Covid virus is the hoax. This is not a medical problem. This is a political problem. We must begin treating it as one.

Joe Doakes

I hope the actual science finds a way to recover from this past two years.

15 thoughts on “Pattern Recognition

  1. Mac is correct. All one has to do is follow the money. 99.99% of the time, that’s what drives opinions, “science” and mantra.

  2. As a former engineer, I feel obligated to speak up for my here maligned cousins, the scientists. The problem is that far too many scientists are too much nerd and not enough geek. The former are, in their pure and unadulterated state, unattractive personalities both physically and socially. Geeks are just into whatever it is they’re geeky about to the point of being anti-social. In the world of “the sciences”, the two characteristics are often blended which is why people get the terms wrong. Examples? Einstein was (way) more geek than nerd. Fauci is (way) more nerd than geek.

    Nerds like Fauci show throughout their careers that they will do or say anything to be considered important and worthy and popular. They don’t do science, they become administrators in science. That ugly little toad has been making pronouncements about diseases that are not only wrong, but also attempt to put him in the strongest possible position to control things – to be socially acceptable. Look up his pronouncements about AIDS; ‘member how AIDS was soon to be a widespread and uncontrollable epidemic?

    Science, like so much else in society, has been infiltrated by nerds in the guise of administrators who are useless, attention-seeking whores. They can be bribed, yes.

    Ooh, morning rant. Almost as good as coffee 😉

  3. following up on the Fauci observation; it is a safe bet that there are dozens of “geeks” who owe their stalled or failed career in the sciences to the tender bureaucratic ministrations of Dr Fauci.

  4. Yup! Just like Rochelle Wollensky, Janet Woodcock and Nancy Messonier, who, funny, is Rod Rosenstein’s sister. Birds of a feather.

  5. <<>>>
    When you mix science and politics, you don’t get scientific politics, you get politicized science.

  6. I had never described the difference between the compliant and the honest as the difference between nerds and geeks–I’d viewed the terms as pretty much synonymous–but I would agree with JDM that there is a very bad trend that’s been forming for the past few decades whereby science and engineering is becoming increasingly politicized, and where topics previously worth investigating are now being made off limits.

    At the same time, when it suits the purposes of the “nerds” and the political powers that be, it seems that any number of experiments are being done which, if you were to transport people from the sixties to read about these experiments, they’d say “what happened? Is Mengele back from South American then?”

    Great example is the gain of function research done with WIV. I can imagine them saying–let’s assume they understand Chinese history to today–“OK, we’ve got a country that killed 65 million of its own people in the Cultural Revolution, tens of millions more in forced abortions on unwilling mothers, which currently has nukes pointed at the U.S. and is rattling the saber at Taiwan, and we’re funding and supporting research there that could easily be translated for bioweapons. Do I have that right?”

  7. Given a bit of coffee, a re-read of JD’s comment/post, and inspired by golfdoc’s comment, I was thinking a bit about this Fauci character. I think Fauci was the primary if not sole reason that the Democrats (and their propaganda arm) went from the Kung flu is nothing (c’mon down to Chinatown and celebrate) to treating it as the most deadly disease ever.

    Think about the state of the economy in the Before Times, the foreign policy victories, etc, etc… there was no possible way the Democrats could beat Trump. And then Fauci got the ear of DNC and in one month, the whole world changed and Fauci was everywhere promoting it. Fifteen days. Masks. Lockdowns. And in parallel, a media campaign to not only convince the US but the entire world that people are literally dying in the streets. And that Trump should do more, it’s all Trump’s fault.

    And Fauci, attention whore that he is, is still making pronouncements about what needs to be done – even when it contradicts statements he’s made before. In the guise of Science.

  8. the difference between the compliant and the honest as the difference between nerds and geeks

    Interesting formulation. Hadn’t thought of it that way.

  9. JDM; well, you inspired it! :^) Seriously, we might quibble over whether the person earnestly seeking approval is inherently compliant or not, but I think we’d agree he’d be generally more willing to subordinate any pangs of ethics to his desire for approval, no?

    If it’s a good comparison, I give you credit. If it’s not, I at least share the blame. :^)

  10. bike, I think the nerd/geek dichotomy can be shown by of those four-quadrant graphs with “geekiness” on one axis and “nerdiness” on the other. That is, it’s not a binary thing; most in the “sciences” (engineering, medicine, computers, etc) have some measure of each aspect.

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