Another day, another Academic arrested for secret ties to China, this time it’s at Case Western Reserve.

I believe that’s three Academics in trouble in the last week or so, for a total of four Academics reported to have such secret Chinese ties and funding, just since January 1, 2020.

See https://campusreform.org/?ID=14873

See https://www.takimag.com/article/no-cure-for-impatience/

Today I’m thinking more of a new Little Ice Age to come, and haven’t been hearing much about the lack of sunspots, but here’s a reminder:
https://nypost.com/2020/05/14/the-sun-has-entered-a-lockdown-period-which-could-cause-freezing-weather-famine/

I’m hoping for enough ice age to kill the global warming alarmism, without too much famine…

No, you don’t. You have a political orthodoxy. Religions have a half-dozen different aspects, not just dogma, and have copious discourse within the scaffolding of dogma.

Contemporary liberal discourse outside of rarefied academic settings is notable for its crudity and its high-school-never-ends gamesmanship.

Science does not deal in permanent revealed truths. Anything we think we know today could be totally overturned by something we discover tomorrow. If you don’t think that’s exciting, you don’t belong in, or believe in, science.

Based on what I see in my lefty friends, “science as religion” is one of the foundations of their belief system. It’s barely a millimeter under the surface for most of them.They pat themselves on the back for rejecting Christianity (because they really don’t give a lot of points for rejecting any other specific religion), then accept without question any word spoken by priests in literal or figurative white coats. Their response to anyone who doesn’t agree with them is entirely like any religious zealot, plus they continue to pat themselves on the back for imagining that they are so smart while those who disagree are so stupid.

As others have said, science is seen as if it were a religion. You know it’s messy. But if someone points out lacunae in global warming theory, or evolution, or now in pandemic time, the reaction may be as if somebody doubted some quibbling bit of detail in the gospels–which might make no difference to the doctrine–and is a heretic. Light the fire.
They may call it science, but the treatment of skeptics shows it’s religion.

What’s a Republican governor have to do to earn respect from the mainstream media? I’m asking because saving a lot of lives without totally trashing their state’s economy doesn’t seem to do the trick. Meanwhile, certain Democrat governors are portrayed as quietly competent heroes while having the worst infection and death rates in the nation.

It starting to appear that–while we were all just going along singing a song (the image of the Tarot card, “The Fool” comes to mind)–the Chinese have been quietly moving in on us, have been hijacking a good portion of what we have naively been thinking has been research done for tohe good of us us here in the U.S.A.

Well, today here comes notice of another such Academic, this time at the Cleveland Clinic.

See https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/05/15/chinese-born-researcher-cleveland-clinic-accused-fraud-links-espionage/

Huh. What a coincidence.

You don’t think maybe that all Neil Ferguson’s model runs came out with numbers all over the place due to code only a professor could love and he just settled on the one that was a straight extrapolation of 1918-19? Naaaah, couldn’t be.