Many of the smartest people I know do not have college degrees.
Rikki Schlott writes at NYP: "In fact, a staggering 53% of companies eliminated degree requirements for at least some roles in the past year. It’s time for more to do the same. Gen Z has realized the academic cabal was holding their success hostage. We’re bucking the status quo — and now it’s incumbent on society to support us."
The story of one of the greatest tragedies and deceptions of all time is finally coming out. You won't find it in the corporate media yet, because the message has been controlled upstream through the powerful incentive structure of billions of $ of scientific research funding and Machiavellian pinpoint control of three historically prestigious science journals upon which corporate media outlets rely. But the narrative is starting to crumble thanks to recent Congressional hearings and this excellent article by Ashley Rindsberg. Once this entire story works its way into wider public understanding, Anthony Fauci will not be invited to throw any more ceremonial opening day pitches.
Here are a few excerpts from Rindsberg's article at Tablet,"Treason of the Science Journals: How Anthony Fauci manufactured consensus on the origins of COVID-19 with the help of science writers and the media."
At the government level, pandemic preparedness is as much about protecting critical supply chains as it is about administering medical treatments. What the COVID-19 pandemic showed is that the flow of information, which may be the single most vital resource in the supply chain, is utterly broken. In many cases, it was actively undermined by senior public health officials including the former chief medical adviser to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
New emails released in a congressional probe show that Fauci helped direct the publication of “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” an influential scientific paper published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, that claimed COVID-19 could not have leaked from a laboratory. Fauci then cited the paper—in effect quoting himself, since he coordinated the article behind the scenes and was given final approval before it published—as if it was an independent source corroborating his assertions that COVID could only have come from a bat and not from a lab.
Janathan Haidt, writing at his new Substack:
In conclusion, I believe that Greg Lukianoff was exactly right in the diagnosis he shared with me in 2014. Many young people had suddenly—around 2013—embraced three great untruths:
They came to believe that they were fragile and would be harmed by books, speakers, and words, which they learned were forms of violence (Great Untruth #1).
They came to believe that their emotions—especially their anxieties—were reliable guides to reality (Great Untruth #2).
They came to see society as comprised of victims and oppressors—good people and bad people (Great Untruth #3).
Liberals embraced these beliefs more than conservatives. Young liberal women adopted them more than any other group due to their heavier use of social media and their participation in online communities that developed new disempowering ideas. These cognitive distortions then caused them to become more anxious and depressed than other groups. Just as Greg had feared, many universities and progressive institutions embraced these three untruths and implemented programs that performed reverse CBT on young people, in violation of their duty to care for them and educate them.
See also, this article discussing (among other things) The Coddling of the American Mind, by Haidt and Lukianoff.
Bob Costas joins Bill Maher on Bill's lesser known show, "Club Random." This was a highly engaging conversation that covers many topics, including comedians, a career Bob chose not to follow, woke culture and, of course, sports.
Where are the bold headlines in the corporate media when the former Director of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield, testifies that: A) Gain of Function Research has not ever created any life-saving vaccines or therapeutics, B) Gain of Function Research probably caused the COVID pandemic, and C) there are no tangible benefits to Gain of Function Research?
As Saager Enjeti notes, it is "madness" that this testimony has failed to generate big headlines or to result in dramatic new restrictions on this type of research. In the meantime, Anthony Fauci did his damndest to hide that this research was going on and that he was responsible for funding it. Nothing about this testimony from CNN, MSNBC, NPR or WaPo. NYT does mention Redfield's testimony, but buries the lede.