Jeff Chiders<\/p>\n
The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed yesterday headlined, \u201cCovid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly.\u201d The sub-headline explained \u201cGovernment and social-media companies colluded to stifle dissenters who turned out to be right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Being a stifled dissenter myself, I was glad to see it in print, even if just in the editorial section.<\/p>\n
The author sensibly pointed out that forbidding doctors from recommending effective alternative treatments and hiding the fact of recovered immunity is not only unethical and droolingly moronic but led to countless preventable deaths:<\/p>\n
Legions of doctors stayed quiet after witnessing the demonization of their peers who challenged the Covid orthodoxy. A little censorship leads people to watch what they say. Millions of patients and citizens were deprived of important insights as a result\u2026 Excess mortality in most high-income nations was worse in 2021 and 2022 than in 2020, the initial pandemic year. Many poorer nations with less government control seemed to fare better. Sweden, which didn\u2019t have a lockdown, performed better than nearly every other advanced nation.
\nThe article quoted Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who in 1969 famously said \u201cScience is the belief in the ignorance of experts.\u201d Truer words were never spoken. So I guess all us of contrarians were doing science all along. Who knew.<\/p>\n
Gosh. How many times over the last three years have I written about the dangers of ceding decision-making to experts? Historically, \u201cexperts\u201d as a class were only supposed to INFORM our decision making, not MAKE decisions for us. That key historical distinction seems utterly lost on our friends from the left, and our present woeful circumstances constitute the best evidence of why we\u2019ve never before put \u201cexperts\u201d in charge of anything.<\/p>\n
One editorial is not enough, not by a long shot, but it\u2019s a start. Even though corporate media is still valiantly trying to defend official \u201cdisinformation censorship,\u201d the truth, like water, keeps relentlessly finding ways to seep out. And \u2014 we aren\u2019t seeing too many full-throated defenses of pandemic policy, are we?<\/p>\n
Tick, tock, experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeff Chiders The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed yesterday headlined, \u201cCovid Censorship Proved to Be Deadly.\u201d The sub-headline explained \u201cGovernment and social-media companies colluded to stifle dissenters who turned out to be right.\u201d Being a stifled dissenter myself, I … Continue reading