QOTD

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1. I discount experts who have no skin in the game.

   1. Joe “skin in the game” Bastardi

      https://www.cfact.org/2020/05/04/weather-to-put-on-show-of-power-and-majesty-but-not-climate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weather-to-put-on-show-of-power-and-majesty-but-not-climate

      Snow forecast this upcoming weekend locally ( low minimum temp records under threat)

      Friday Night
      Snow Partly Cloudy with Very Light Snow with a low around 34°F [1°C]. “NNE” wind to around 4 mph [6 kph], with wind gusts to near 6 mph [10 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 30°F [-1°C] with a humidity of 55% and a barometric pressure around 29.68 in [1005 mb]. Chance of precipitation is 21% with a qpf of 0.08 in [2.05 mm].

      Saturday
      Scattered Snow Showers Mostly Cloudy with Scattered Snow Showers with a high near 43°F [6°C]. northwest wind to around 12 mph [19 kph], with wind gusts to near 18 mph [30 kph]. The dewpoint will be near 33°F [1°C] with a humidity of 76% and a barometric pressure around 29.74 in [1007 mb]. The UVI forecast is 0. Chance of precipitation is 55% with a qpf of 0.34 in [8.73 mm].

      https://eldoradoweather.com/canada/CanadaForecasts/city/pages/on-143_metric_e.php

2. Firstly, bravo to Bret Weinstein

   We have too many narrow experts and
   too few polymaths.

   Journalism should not be a widely offered university degree.

   Overall society has too much theoretical education & is woefully deficient in practical education.

   One more thing, need a lockdown quarantine of all neo Marxist virus epicenters.
   Maybe Jordan Peterson has antidote template?

3. American scientists are trying to cover the backs of their Chinese “colleagues” in Wuhan—mostly to please the deep-cover Chinese intelligence agents who seduced and married them decades ago.

   Two million innocent Americans might die of Wuhan flu. All the eggheads care about, in the final analysis, is losing their theoretical access to Oriental snatch.

   Money is not the root of all evil. The root of all evil is lust.

4. “…perverse…” Well I’m thinking this actually should read more like incentives toward a preselected outcome. Or “… perverse incentives…” aka cronyism. The monolith exists in the control over the means of production thinly disguised by selective allocation.
   The clients are getting what we paid for.
   Manufactured consensus. No different than MSM removing all comments critical of their editorial perspective.
   Youtube demonetization, Twitter suspensions, etc. Other opinions / theories are out there but there is no equity in funding to diversify competitive research.
   For example what’s wrong with Remdesivir and Hydroxychloroquine as the latter is the anti-inflamitory component they are not looking for.
   It’s silly really.
   The reporters are every bit as selective as they are likewise corrupted by their now preferred political monolith. Nothing is about science, it’s about control. But, we all know this. We need consensus amongst ourselves to purge and deeply clense not only the state but the entire industrial information complex of factionalism.

5. Richard Feynman, one of the 20th century’s eminent physicists, famously said, “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”