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The death of trust in "Experts"

Posted on 3/15/24 at 10:53 pm
Posted by DesScorp
Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
6588 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 10:53 pm
Stuff like this caused it.

We're running out of conspiracy theories. Because so many are turning out to be true. The Experts are exposed as an emperor with no clothes.



Pew Research: American trust in science and scientists declining
Posted by Cool Hand Luke
Member since Oct 2008
1807 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:06 pm to
And I just saw an article on Yahoo stating that so many are suffering from "long covid".
Posted by Boomdaddy65201
BoCoMo
Member since Mar 2020
2624 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:19 pm to
Over 3 years ago on here I stated that you would see an uptick in government disability claims over the mind frick that was Covid. And that the medical establishment would wholeheartedly endorse these claims as a way to cover their asses as opposed to a real medical diagnosis.



quote:

Can long COVID be a disability under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557? Yes, long COVID can be a disability under the ADA, Section 504, and Section 1557 if it substantially limits one or more major life activities….such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, working or sleeping.
Posted by kingbob
Sorrento, LA
Member since Nov 2010
67214 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:32 pm to
To be entirely honest, when I had a particularly nasty case of Covid that put me in a hospital back in 2021, it took months before I was back to 100%. The disease absolutely ravaged my lungs. I was still dealing with brain fog and serious fatigue for 3 or 4 months after the fact. I eventually got over it, but I couldn't really work effectively full time until I'd recovered my strength.
Posted by Sofaking2
Member since Apr 2023
4224 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:45 pm to
This happens everyday to people when they get the flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections, etc. Covid doesn’t have monopoly on illnesses escalating into serious side effects.
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
7586 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 11:48 pm to
You can tell an experts credibility by how faded the background is on their Zoom settings
Posted by Boomdaddy65201
BoCoMo
Member since Mar 2020
2624 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 12:28 am to
quote:

This happens everyday to people when they get the flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections, etc. Covid doesn’t have monopoly on illnesses escalating into serious side effects.


And “long Covid” is just a lazy, fear porn catch phrase for legitimate residual effects for a variety of viruses and diseases.

KingBob, I feel for you, I truly do, I had the OG strain of Covid in ‘20 and as a result was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia. Of course, it wasn’t supposedly in Mo. at the time, which turned out to be total BS.

I know this because there were dozens upon dozens of patients being seen at the local urgent cares and ER’s with a particularly bad URV. Turns out the local university(MU) did a review of all those cases and asked those patients to volunteer for a blood draw and evidence of Covid antibodies, as they were desperately seeking volunteers for convalescent plasma. As a result, I was branded a “conspiracy theorist” even though I had stone cold medical records and you know, I actually lived it.

Clown World.
Posted by blueridgeTiger
Granbury, TX
Member since Jun 2004
20327 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 11:20 am to
Only slightly off-topic, but when I was working for a major corporation, top management was always bringing in "experts' and "consultants" who generally had their heads up their asses and who had no real idea as to what we were doing. Us in middle management had to sit through many hours listening to the drivel from those expensive outsiders.
Posted by tiger789
on the bayou
Member since Dec 2008
770 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 11:42 am to
quote:

We're running out of conspiracy theories. Because so many are turning out to be true. The Experts are exposed as an emperor with no clothes.















Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
8312 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 11:53 am to
I still trust experts. I don’t trust a person is an expert unless I can verify it.
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
9911 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 11:59 am to
Yeah, I think the death of trust in expertise is somewhat overblown. There's been a proliferation of counter-experts to those in the traditional knowledge-generating institutions. A thousand flowers are blooming in the contrarian spaces and people turn to them as authorities in mostly usual ways.

Now as to the comparable quality of the expertise and how well laypeople can sort the competence of experts...
This post was edited on 3/16/24 at 12:07 pm
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
112611 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 12:05 pm to
Journalists are extremely lazy and prone to lying. So, instead of doing research they just write about their opinion on a subject and use 'experts say' as the unnamed source.
Posted by LSUA 75
Colfax,La.
Member since Jan 2019
3708 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 12:43 pm to
IMO,scientists in the medical,food and climate realm are nothing but a bunch of “whores”,just like politicians,they can be bought.
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
34846 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 12:45 pm to
An expert is some guy from out of town
Posted by Hognutz
Member since Sep 2018
1434 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 12:56 pm to
Now stop trusting the faulty psuedoscience proofs of a new deadly pathogen lest you be reeled back in on demand.



Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
112611 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 1:32 pm to
quote:

IMO,scientists in the medical,food and climate realm are nothing but a bunch of “whores”,just like politicians,they can be bought.


The organizations in medicine, food and climate, etc. are not run by experts in those specific fields. They are bureaucrats usually with a background in law. Their job is not to research and discover. It's to sell conclusions that their bosses have already reached.
Posted by tigerpawl
Can't get there from here.
Member since Dec 2003
22368 posts
Posted on 3/16/24 at 1:35 pm to
"Experts" are nothing more than people with briefcases at least 50 miles from home.
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