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There are multiple issues on which asking questions can get you deplatformed, or even threaten your career. I think there were always things that were consider

by tsol 4y ago

There are multiple issues on which asking questions can get you deplatformed, or even threaten your career. I think there were always things that were considered too important to question in society, but those were traditionally relegated to the religious sphere. They were religious facts that are too sacred to question. Now there are scientific facts that are too sacred to question, and that's dangerous.

colpabar 4y ago
I think fauci declaring himself to be science incarnate did more damage to science as a whole than any of the bad-faith actors people complain about.
- kevinventullo 4y ago
  I must have missed that press conference.
  - hosteur 4y ago
    Might be this https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/06/09/fauci-on-gop-criticism-attacks-on-me-quite-frankly-are-attacks-on-science/?sh=10fa92404542 https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/06/09/fa...
    - kevinventullo 4y ago
      Oof, yeah fair enough.
  - nradov 4y ago
    It was an interview on MSNBC's Chuck Todd show, not a press conference. "attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science" - Dr. Anthony Fauci, 2021 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/fauci-blasts-preposterous-covid-conspiracies-accuses-critics-of-attacks-on-science.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/fauci-blasts-preposterous-co... In context his statement was a bit more nuanced. But I don't think it's healthy for a bureaucrat to try to personify a process. Taking political opposition personally is seldom productive.
    - OrvalWintermute 4y ago
      The biggest problem with Dr. Fauci's statements are different than from what is being discussed. I believe in the scientific method, and I also know there is a distinct possibility that a statement I make today, based on what we know today, may be incredibly wrong. Dr. Fauci's statements are frightening because they lack intellectual humility, and they remind me of a comic book phrase, rather than a statement by a leading physician or researcher. Would we expect anything different from Judge Dredd? [1] [1] https://youtu.be/miVoe7U6Lx4?t=30 https://youtu.be/miVoe7U6Lx4?t=30
- MichaelCollins 4y ago
  The personality cult that started to crystalize around Fauci was incredibly disturbing. For a few weeks it felt like I was being bombarded on all sides by "viral" videos of weirdos singing love songs to Fauci, getting tattoos of Fauci, all kinds of absurd celebrity worship shit. Why would anything like that be recommended to me in the first place, I never watch any content like that.
  - axpy906 4y ago
    Really convenient how his role as the lead public official pushing AZT during the AIDs epidemic got memory-holed too. Edit: Adding sources to spite the Dow voter for merely stating a fact. Him saying: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWwEkBZjhM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWwEkBZjhM An article: “ Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was now pushing to expand prescription.” https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/ https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1...

by tsol 4y ago

colpabar 4y ago

I think fauci declaring himself to be science incarnate did more damage to science as a whole than any of the bad-faith actors people complain about.

kevinventullo 4y ago
I must have missed that press conference.
- hosteur 4y ago
  Might be this https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/06/09/fauci-on-gop-criticism-attacks-on-me-quite-frankly-are-attacks-on-science/?sh=10fa92404542 https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/06/09/fa...
  - kevinventullo 4y ago
    Oof, yeah fair enough.
- nradov 4y ago
  It was an interview on MSNBC's Chuck Todd show, not a press conference. "attacks on me are, quite frankly, attacks on science" - Dr. Anthony Fauci, 2021 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/fauci-blasts-preposterous-covid-conspiracies-accuses-critics-of-attacks-on-science.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/fauci-blasts-preposterous-co... In context his statement was a bit more nuanced. But I don't think it's healthy for a bureaucrat to try to personify a process. Taking political opposition personally is seldom productive.
  - OrvalWintermute 4y ago
    The biggest problem with Dr. Fauci's statements are different than from what is being discussed. I believe in the scientific method, and I also know there is a distinct possibility that a statement I make today, based on what we know today, may be incredibly wrong. Dr. Fauci's statements are frightening because they lack intellectual humility, and they remind me of a comic book phrase, rather than a statement by a leading physician or researcher. Would we expect anything different from Judge Dredd? [1] [1] https://youtu.be/miVoe7U6Lx4?t=30 https://youtu.be/miVoe7U6Lx4?t=30
MichaelCollins 4y ago
The personality cult that started to crystalize around Fauci was incredibly disturbing. For a few weeks it felt like I was being bombarded on all sides by "viral" videos of weirdos singing love songs to Fauci, getting tattoos of Fauci, all kinds of absurd celebrity worship shit. Why would anything like that be recommended to me in the first place, I never watch any content like that.
- axpy906 4y ago
  Really convenient how his role as the lead public official pushing AZT during the AIDs epidemic got memory-holed too. Edit: Adding sources to spite the Dow voter for merely stating a fact. Him saying: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWwEkBZjhM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKWwEkBZjhM An article: “ Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was now pushing to expand prescription.” https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/ https://www.spin.com/2015/10/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1...