Thomas Sowell and others have written about the problem of academics who are competent or even superb in their particular intellectual ghetto, but who then make the mistake of concluding since they're competent in their field that they'll also be competent in other disciplines.
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Apply this to the members of the media. Except that the prerequisite of strong expertise in a subject matter typically is absent.
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It's a reminder of the moral obligation to be intelligent. Oftentimes the virtue of intelligence manifests itself in knowing simply to shut the eff up. Obviously, he's not alone in this failing, and because of it, more people will die. You should think about it. A lot.
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It's also a reminder that every conservative expert is at some level a charlatan gifting either the general public or their wealthy benefactors. Their existence a plague harming mankind more so than Coronavirus ever could.
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Balderdash.
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The crazypants thing he did, *assuming* all viruses rapidly become less virulent due to “evolution,” and building his case around that premise? Did he dream it? So bizarre.
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That’s a very, very, gentle way to put it. Doesn’t quite seem to square with the reality though, and turns out this was a dangerous topic to be so wrong about.
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Hack? Balderdash.
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