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11 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
She has a good track record of brokering international deals that lead to strong and stable domestic leadership and strong public backing.
May's deal famously united the nation and gave her administration authority that no other administration in a century has enjoyed.
Oh it gets funnier...

I can't actually tell if he's joking or deadly serious.

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11 Oct
From 45 minutes to ready WMDs, to Covid's mode of transmission, there is a pattern to craven, morally bankrupt authoritarianism...

It is "denial" that vexes them more than the putative threat.
It is always about *denial*.

It's not hard to read this as terror about loss of control of narrative.

Accusations of "denial" are the shortcut to proving the interlocutor's bad faith: nefarious connections, sinister motivations, profit-seeking and malign intent.
Always with the mind probe...

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11 Oct
And another. Quotes a line from the piece which is its fig leaf, as though it was not the piece's fig leaf.
The piece in summary is "There should be no expectation that scientists fall into line with a consensus.... Except that scientists who do not fall into line with a consensus are industry-funded propagandists who are only in it for the money".
Throughout the piece, claims like "it is misleading to suggest that giving up on suppression is anything but an outlier position" go unsubstantiated.

Even the WHO has now stated a position AGAINST lockdowns.

She's a bullshit artist.
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11 Oct
Another wonk favourably retweeting mere smear because it's superficially clothed in recent academic thinking.

Fig leaves are flapping in the wind.
I find this extraordinary. In the background to claims that the GBD's authors were wrong is the fact that the models used to drive policy were wrong, authored by a team of people who have a much longer history of being wrong.
This isn't about using science to find the best way forward under uncertainty. It's about defending institutional science and its intransigent panjandrums.
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11 Oct
The wonk's job is to protect the institutions of wonkery.

Smears are more effective than science; debate is anathema to the clergy.
I wonder if she's really so keen on testing scientists for 'issue advocacy' when her views -- and her paper's views -- align.

Pielke's broader work on issue advocacy would suggest otherwise...

(Typo -- Align with the science, that is).

If there is alignment, then Guardian/Observer journalists seem reluctant to address the matter of issue advocacy.

Which leads to alarmist editorials like this...

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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10 Oct
This is broadly right. The 'great reset' is hardly a secret.

*FAR* too much emphasis is given to *artefacts* of global politics such as the GR, and "agenda 21", and all that, at the cost of looking at the facts of global politics, and what may be driving it.
So, yes, it's i) anti-democratic, ii) a power grab, iii) a land grab, iv) a wealth grab, v) utterly illegitimate...

But it's also being given away freely by virtue of a f***ing dreadful political establishment, appointed *by* *us*, which cannot tell its own a*se from its elbow.
And they are all truly weird. They want to design your lifestyle, your city, your life, to intervene in, monitor, regulate and control your every decision. And it's a bizarre compact of academia, "science", global institutions, govts, corps.

But it's all totally degenerate.
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9 Oct
The Gaurdian is just a smear sheet. Smear is the only way it knows to confront positions it disagrees with.

It cannot accept that anyone can hold a different opinion to its own line in good faith.

It therefore projects its own bad faith onto others.

unherd.com/thepost/is-the…
I've been smeared in the Guardian, and by Guardian journalists, as have many others. I've never been asked "why do you believe X", I've only been told "you believe X".
The closest I ever came to an actual discussion of substance with a Guardian "journalist", we found a point of disagreement, and he said "we'll have to agree to disagree about that", rather than discuss it. Instead, he wanted to tell me about my "ideology".
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