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Correct. Peer review entered only recently & devitalized science. There is now a *massive* campaign by people who use it to their advantage to rewrite scientific history as if it has always been there as part of the scientific method.

This is modern propaganda. A cult. Madness.
Why do we all accept and repeat this nonsense? Its wildly funny! It’s like someone from Men in Black took one of those neurolyzers to all of the STEM community and turned them into amnesiacs. Yet anyone can look up a history of peer review anywhere:

blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-cu…
Now you know: Universal Peer Review is a very recent means of protecting institutions and *incumbents* from upstarts and science.

This isn’t science. This is the DISC.

We now return you to your previous simple beliefs about Science and its practice:

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I’m not delusional here. As anyone who follows this feed knows, I’m far more interested in the issue of ending “The Truman Show” than in who becomes president. There are three candidates that challenge the party leadership: Tulsi, Yang & Sanders. Yang has only one possible path.
It is very simple. The MSM and DNC have been VERY effective at killing off the sense he *can* win. For Yang to take off, he would need to ride a wave of preference falsification. For example, if he did twice as well as expected for a while, the polls would become suspect to all.
I don’t see this for Tulsi, and Sanders has already ridden such a wave from 2016. So the question is simple.

Q: Are enough Yang supporters:

A) Invisible to Polls

and/or

B) Contingent on realism concerns

and/or

C) Lying about supporting Biden/Sanders Warren.

I don’t know.
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My sense is that there has been *much* more energy behind @AndrewYang than has been reflected in official narratives. Hence #YangMediaBlackout This is what I thought about Bernie & Trump in 2016. I only wish the first primary were a simple secret ballot to test that theory.
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UBI, however, is neither.
The map is not the territory & the marketing is not the product. Keep that in mind. It is a desperate measure for a desperate situation which hasn’t fully happened yet. There are still jobs, but there are few careers. We have to do something when labor markets fail families. 🙏
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I’m asked what the DISC is concretely. An old example of The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex in 4 photos:

I) The Hispanic towns of Bishop, Palo Verde & la Loma, clockwise from Left. 1948.

II) Now.

III) Moving Day (Aurora Vargas).

IV) Walter O’Malley.

#GoogleChavezRavine
The DISC does *not* usually try to ensure that you can’t find the story. It may even bring up the story tangentially in something like a “To be sure...” paragraph or in occasional features. It merely ensures that the reality now paved over never becomes operational.

Go Dodgers.
The story of the disappearance of these towns and the treatment of their residents is an active act of daily forgetting. Supposed free market conservatives were looking to confiscate property rights of home owners below market value & willing to wield the power of the state.
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