For longer than I care to admit, the news has been dominated by arrogant and ignorant people promoting nonsense supposedly based on the science. In many cases anyone who spends five minutes actually investigating their claims quickly notes the total lack of merit. In some cases, the warnings are patently absurd. In addition, few of the things proposed have any chance of working. What makes this worse is the obvious fact that so many people arrogantly lecturing the rest of us display flagrant hypocrisy on a daily basis.

But there is good news. More people are asking questions and pushing back against the narrative. Perhaps the best thing about COVID may be the death of “the illusion of following the science.” It is increasingly clear that virtually none of the drastic actions taken to defeat COVID came close to working. The lockdowns didn’t work. The mask mandates didn’t work. And while the vaccines do provide some level of protection, they clearly did not stop the spread of COVID. What makes this worse is that all this focus on things that did not and could not work, included spreading deliberate misinformation about things that actually did show promise. The usual suspects even slammed the potential for the vaccines that they now demand, because they were developed under the warp speed program implemented by Donald Trump. It was only when Joe Biden became President that these same vaccines miraculously became wonder cures.

Tragically, these same people trashed hydroxychloroquine, solely because it was “mentioned” by Donald Trump. Some people literally warned people not to take it because it will kill them. Many states banned the use of hydroxychloroquine unless the situation was beyond desperate. When people talked about Ivermectin the same class of clowns immediately pounced. They called this horse dewormer that couldn’t possibly work. Now I am hardly a spokesman for either of these, but there just seem to be multiple studies where people stupid enough to take these drugs miraculously recovered.

Well now people have had it. They are sick and tired of being scolded by world-class ill-informed hypocrites. There have already been people fighting back, with demonstrations all over the world. But the ruling class just managed to ignore them. Then a bunch of truckers showed up in Ottawa, Canada and basically shut things down. The ruling class is trying and failing to shut them up. But they don’t dare resort to their desired tactic of just arresting anyone who dares disagree with them. So, reluctantly, they are starting to negotiate. They have also gotten attention all over the world. Everywhere you look, COVID restrictions are quietly being shut down. Even here in California, if you are vaccinated you won’t need to wear a mask indoors after next Tuesday. If anyone thinks they are going to be able to require proof of vaccination, they should plan a trip to Australia and see how that is working out.

COVID is just the first in a lengthy list of stupid ideas based on the illusion of science. Next to fall is the global warming myth. If one has been paying any attention, it should have been a strong hint when “global warming” was changed to “climate change.” Five minute research would have shown that the earth wasn’t actually getting warmer and that the fear of global warming is used to justify the ridiculous. Let’s be honest here, the earth has been warming, slowly, since about 1600. Climate change is true but blaming it on the amount of CO2 in the air is absurd. Incredibly no real scientist even pretends that reducing CO2 levels over the next 100 years will actually change anything.

The people promoting this don’t believe it themselves. That is why they fly all over the world, on private jets, to caution the rest of us to reduce exhaling air to spare the planet. None of their predictions have come close to be true. Yet supposedly smart people are proposing we switch to all electric vehicles, ignoring the environmental disaster that would come from mining for and disposing of the rare earth minerals needed for all those batteries. In addition, no sane person really believes we can power our electrical grid with solar and wind power.

This reminds me of when I was on a sailboat, when we ran of wind. We also ran out of gas, so we were stranded several miles offshore. We called for assistance, and soon heard a stink boat (power by gas) respond by saying: “sailboat out of gas.” They then graciously showed up with enough gas to get us into port.

Science is golden, when it is true science, when it seeks the truth, when it willing embraces diverse opinions because sometimes the critics are right. But right now, it in increasingly obvious that those who lecture about following the science are often those who are personally incapable of even recognizing science. Science is golden, lying about following the science, not so much.

TDM