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Thread summarizing what we've learned so far of the Fauci/Collins email dump on the Great Barrington Declaration:

It starts on 10/14/20 when Collins instructs Fauci and his staff to "take down" the GBD and the "fringe" scientists behind it. Image
Fauci responds immediately by circulating an article against the GBD from that austere scientific authority, @WiredUK. Image
The Fauci-endorsed Wired article is noteworthy for having one of the single worst hot-takes of the entire pandemic. It declared in October 2020 that the GBD should be ignored, because lockdowns were a thing of the past and would not be returning!

wired.co.uk/article/great-… Image
The next day, Fauci sends Collins an angry rant against the GBD in the @thenation by @gregggonsalves.

Collins approves. Image
Far from a scientific study refuting the GBD, Gonsalves's article is a political op-ed attacking @jacobin magazine for breaking "solidarity" with other far-left media outlets on lockdowns. Why? Because Jacobin ran an interview with @MartinKulldorff on how lockdowns hurt the poor. Image
Over the weekend, Collins launches the smear campaign against the GBD in the Washington Post.

washingtonpost.com/health/covid-h… Image
Collins and Fauci email each other about the WaPo hit, with Fauci quipping that the White House was "too busy with other things to worry about this" - perhaps an election reference? - and therefore would not push back on the anti-GBD campaign. Image
In the meantime, Gonsalves also gets in contact with Collins to volunteer his services (along with future @CDCDirector Rochelle Walensky) to attack the GBD in the media.

Collins approves, and forwards it to Fauci and a bunch of NIH underlings. Image
In the meantime, @gregggonsalves was having a public meltdown against the GBD on twitter.

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The emails get murky around 10/14/20, because the NIH redacted a bunch of emails that appear to be between Fauci and Collins.

Surrounding context suggests they were discussing how to trash the GBD if it came up at the WH Covid task force meeting on 10/16. Image
On the morning of the Covid task force meeting, Fauci sends Deborah Birx this email alerting her about the need to oppose the GBD at the meeting. The unredacted part suggests they are preparing to attack @ScottWAtlas, who was perceived as the task force's champion of the GBD. Image
10/16/20 is as far as I've gotten in piecing together the story of what happened. Still more documents to go through, including some more explosive revelations about where Fauci was getting his anti-GBD talking points. So stay tuned!
*typo in the above. The first email about "taking down" the GBD was on 10/8/20 - three days after the GBD broke into the news and went viral.
Here's an update with the next round of emails:

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If Marxists want better critics, they also need to do a better job at making their own arguments.

To paraphrase Keynes, most Marxists approach Marx's texts as received documents from on high. They also treat their critics as heretics from that text.

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Rather than engage with serious - indeed damning - criticisms of Marx's system, Marxists far more often try to handwave them away by designating them "bourgeois" arguments (i.e. heresies) and claiming that they're just ploys to maintain and preserve power disparities in society.
Alternatively, they will immediately start parroting lines about how "You simply don't understand Marx!" No amount of textual evidence showing that they are wrong will ever overcome this, because "understanding Marx," to them, means accepting Marxism as true and valid.
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The chain of modern use of "neoliberalism" derives from Foucault's posthumously published 1979 lectures about his archival digging in the transcripts of the 1938 conference where Mises rejected the term.

This is not difficult, unless, like Kuehn, you reject linear time. Image
*1939 transcripts.

And yes, Foucault is quite clear that he found it while doing archival research. Image
Probably not, because the 1939 colloquium participants were well-aware of the term's baggage due to Spann and Adler's uses over the previous two decades. At min, the absence of Spann and Adler would have yielded a very different transcript...which is where Foucault picked it up. Image
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May 31
Well...

1. The publication of Foucault's lectures are what sparked the 90s boom

2. Gide's article had all of 2 citations between 1898 and the 90s when people first noticed it used the term

3. It's Othmar Spann & his chapter on neoliberalism was in a widely used econ textbook Image
As usual, Kuehn has strong opinions about a subject in which he lacks basic competence. Yet somehow he thinks I'm at fault for that...
FWIW, the claim that "neoliberalism" originated at the Walter Lippmann Colloquium is a myth as well. The transcripts barely mention the term at all. It's briefly proposed, then shot down by Jacques Rueff and never revisited - likely because they knew it was a Nazi pejorative.
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May 27
Synthetic Karl Marx returns for another round!

In this new working paper, we investigate our critics' claim that the SPD popularized Marxism in Germany with its 1891 Erfurt Program, long before Lenin came along.

Turns out our critics were wrong.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Our main finding may be seen here. The Erfurt Program appears to give Marx's citations a very modest boost in 1891.

Except (1) it isn't statistically significant, and (2) it's dwarfed by 1917, which does past muster for significance. Image
Some of our critics also claimed that Ngram isn't suitable for this test (although they never offered any compelling reason why). So we ran the same test using an independent database of scanned German newspapers. The result? Not even a visible boost from the SPD or Erfurt. Image
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May 25
Synthetic Karl Marx is returning for another round.

Preview: John Ganz and all the other twitter warriors who claimed that the SPD popularized Marx before 1917 are simply wrong and don't know what they're talking about. Image
For reference, here's Ganz's claim from back in November about the SPD.

We tested it by using the 1891 Erfurt Program as a treatment, and he's simply wrong.

Our findings using German Ngram reveal only a tiny visual increase in Marx's citations from Erfurt, and we're unable to establish statistical significance. Meanwhile the 1917 boost from the Bolsheviks is huge and statistically significant. Image
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One of the stranger myths of the Brown v. Board aftermath is that Arlington County, VA bucked the "Massive Resistance" movement of the state and permitted integration. Not true! In 1956, the Arlington school board voted 3-0 to fight court-ordered desegregation in appellate court Image
The Arlington school board consistently affirmed this position in the desegregation era, adopting resolutions that pursued every available avenue. The language of these resolutions clearly sided with preserving segregation. Image
In 1958 the NAACP sued the Arlington school board after it systematically rejected 30 out of 30 African-American applicants for transfer into all-white schools.

This strategy was intentional and relied on zoning, enrollment caps, and even IQ tests to block the transferees. Image
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