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    Default Why Trump Ended the Task Force and Put a Kook in Charge of the Coronavirus

    Conservative intellectuals (an oxymoron) have spent years indignantly denying that they harbor some categorical distrust of science. Trump, as he so often does, dispenses with the evasions and plausible deniability and blurts out the actual belief. “He’ll listen to the scientists,” Trump sneered of his opponent. “If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now that would have a country that would be in a massive depression … People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong.”

    Trump’s irritation with public-health experts, and their tedious warnings that the pandemic must be curtailed, is long-standing. In August, the Washington Post reported that Trump had “encouraged his White House advisers to find a new doctor who would argue an alternative point of view from Birx and Fauci, with whom the president has grown increasingly annoyed for public comments that he believes contradict his own assertions that the virus’s threat is receding.” The advisers “sought a doctor with Ivy League or top university credentials who could make the case on television that the virus is a fading danger.” They settled on Scott Atlas.

    Atlas is a radiologist, not an epidemiologist, and possesses essentially no expertise relevant to a pandemic. What he has, instead, is a medical credential — trust him, he’s a doctor — which he uses to ward off expertise. Atlas spent years in the right-wing think-tank world cranking out standard-issue doggerel about the glories of free-market health care and the dangers of doing anything to cover the uninsured.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Conservative intellectuals (an oxymoron) have spent years indignantly denying that they harbor some categorical distrust of science. Trump, as he so often does, dispenses with the evasions and plausible deniability and blurts out the actual belief. “He’ll listen to the scientists,” Trump sneered of his opponent. “If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now that would have a country that would be in a massive depression … People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong.”

    Trump’s irritation with public-health experts, and their tedious warnings that the pandemic must be curtailed, is long-standing. In August, the Washington Post reported that Trump had “encouraged his White House advisers to find a new doctor who would argue an alternative point of view from Birx and Fauci, with whom the president has grown increasingly annoyed for public comments that he believes contradict his own assertions that the virus’s threat is receding.” The advisers “sought a doctor with Ivy League or top university credentials who could make the case on television that the virus is a fading danger.” They settled on Scott Atlas.

    Atlas is a radiologist, not an epidemiologist, and possesses essentially no expertise relevant to a pandemic. What he has, instead, is a medical credential — trust him, he’s a doctor — which he uses to ward off expertise. Atlas spent years in the right-wing think-tank world cranking out standard-issue doggerel about the glories of free-market health care and the dangers of doing anything to cover the uninsured.

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    Poor, insane, Trump. Only he knows science and medicine.

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    We have a large staff of epidemiologists with experience and specific knowledge that Trump removed. Then he put his pharmacist in charge because he would provide the vulpine cover Trump wants. The people should be alarmed. It is pitchfork and torch time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Conservative intellectuals (an oxymoron) have spent years indignantly denying that they harbor some categorical distrust of science.
    Science is not a commission, government agency, 'expert', license, degree, university, or a disease. Science is a set of falsifiable theories.
    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Trump, as he so often does, dispenses with the evasions and plausible deniability and blurts out the actual belief. “He’ll listen to the scientists,” Trump sneered of his opponent. “If I listened totally to the scientists, we would right now that would have a country that would be in a massive depression … People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong.”
    Fauci did get it wrong.
    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Trump’s irritation with public-health experts,
    Bigotry. Lie. Trump never was irritated with public heath people. Just Fauci. Fauci is wrong.
    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    and their tedious warnings that the pandemic must be curtailed, is long-standing.
    You are ignoring most things about Covid19, including the fake data, the mildness of the virus, and the way the press and the liberals manufactured a panic over it.
    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    In August, the Washington Post reported that Trump had “encouraged his White House advisers to find a new doctor who would argue an alternative point of view from Birx and Fauci, with whom the president has grown increasingly annoyed for public comments that he believes contradict his own assertions that the virus’s threat is receding.” The advisers “sought a doctor with Ivy League or top university credentials who could make the case on television that the virus is a fading danger.” They settled on Scott Atlas.
    I don't blame Trump for doing so.
    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Atlas is a radiologist, not an epidemiologist, and possesses essentially no expertise relevant to a pandemic.
    He doesn't need to be an epidemiologist.
    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    What he has, instead, is a medical credential — trust him, he’s a doctor — which he uses to ward off expertise.
    So now you discard a medical credential, when before you worshiped the things. Paradox. Which is it, dude?
    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Atlas spent years in the right-wing think-tank world cranking out standard-issue doggerel about the glories of free-market health care and the dangers of doing anything to cover the uninsured.
    ...deleted Holy Link to Fake News...
    Here you show your obvious attempt to implement socialism, as fascism by oligarchy. You're a Democrat. This is what you want...to destroy the Constitution of the United States and implement fascism by oligarchy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by votebiden View Post
    Poor, insane, Trump. Only he knows science and medicine.
    Is that why he went to a hospital for treatment? You stupid idgit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    We have a large staff of epidemiologists with experience and specific knowledge that Trump removed. Then he put his pharmacist in charge because he would provide the vulpine cover Trump wants. The people should be alarmed. It is pitchfork and torch time.
    You idiots have tried 'pitchfork and torch' tactics all summer. Fuck you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    Science is not a commission, government agency, 'expert', license, degree, university, or a disease. Science is a set of falsifiable theories.

    Fauci did get it wrong.

    Bigotry. Lie. Trump never was irritated with public heath people. Just Fauci. Fauci is wrong.

    You are ignoring most things about Covid19, including the fake data, the mildness of the virus, and the way the press and the liberals manufactured a panic over it.

    I don't blame Trump for doing so.

    He doesn't need to be an epidemiologist.

    So now you discard a medical credential, when before you worshiped the things. Paradox. Which is it, dude?

    Here you show your obvious attempt to implement socialism, as fascism by oligarchy. You're a Democrat. This is what you want...to destroy the Constitution of the United States and implement fascism by oligarchy.
    This stuff is hysterical, he can't exchange to your post, so he breaks it down by phrases, cherry-picking those he thinks gives him a "gotcha" moment, same tactic high school debate teachers tell their students to do when they are stuck for a response

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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    You idiots have tried 'pitchfork and torch' tactics all summer. Fuck you.
    Lol......Your nervousness about the election is showing.....lol
    Please leave your Trump 2024 signs in your yard. That way, my dog will know where to take a dump.

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    These trumpanzee attempts are hilarious. The ONLY thing that they can credit Atlas with is being an M D. Their argument that he doesn't have to be a specialist to provide guidance to the country. The sheer stupidity of that logic dictates that the trumploving morons would go to a neurologist doctor to have a heart problem diagnosed. Then again, maybe they are that damn dumb after all.
    Please leave your Trump 2024 signs in your yard. That way, my dog will know where to take a dump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    This stuff is hysterical, he can't exchange to your post, so he breaks it down by phrases, cherry-picking those he thinks gives him a "gotcha" moment, same tactic high school debate teachers tell their students to do when they are stuck for a response
    Pence employs the same tactics.
    Please leave your Trump 2024 signs in your yard. That way, my dog will know where to take a dump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Into the Night View Post
    Is that why he went to a hospital for treatment? You stupid idgit.
    That was his doctor's decision. He had a staff of 22 at the Whitehouse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    This stuff is hysterical, he can't exchange to your post, so he breaks it down by phrases, cherry-picking those he thinks gives him a "gotcha" moment, same tactic high school debate teachers tell their students to do when they are stuck for a response
    Contextomy fallacy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    This stuff is hysterical, he can't exchange to your post, so he breaks it down by phrases, cherry-picking those he thinks gives him a "gotcha" moment, same tactic high school debate teachers tell their students to do when they are stuck for a response
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tacomaman View Post
    Lol......Your nervousness about the election is showing.....lol
    What nervousness??? Psychoquackery.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tacomaman View Post
    Pence employs the same tactics.
    Pence answers each statement, just as I do. Psychoquackery.
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