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Dude, this is not a balanced take on the situation. It is an appeal to emotion dressed in only the thinnest trappings of reason. > Over the past year, a fearf
by brandmeyer 5y ago
Dude, this is not a balanced take on the situation. It is an appeal to emotion dressed in only the thinnest trappings of reason.
> Over the past year, a fearful public has acquiesced to an extraordinary extension of expert jurisdiction over every domain of life. A pattern of “government by emergency” has become prominent, in which resistance to such incursions are characterised as “anti-science”.
- ggm 5y agoThat's his conclusion. The premise going in, that a corruption of science is being used to drive political ends appears a reasonable initial line of reasoning. I can differ in where I take the conclusion but agree about this initial premise. Johnson wants economic outcomes which drive him to claim science backed policy when the science does not actually support what he is doing in the UK (for instance) and I do think a perpetuated economic and health crisis is being used to achieve political goals in a lot of ways. Enabling legislation is being rushed through parliaments in a lot of places to post hoc legitimate a form of rule by ministerial decree.