Medical science has been compromised since at least the late 1980s, when I first started noticing politically-influenced journal articles offered as peer-reviewed science. In the 1990s the leftist bias burst into the open, with editors, organized medicine leaders, and state and federal agency officials going on record as explicitly endorsing leftist political aims. So no, don't follow (just) the science.
Training is always good, as long as it doesn't descend into indoctrination. Reading this quite well-written article led me, nonetheless, to recall two basic recurring thoughts: 1. As most of us remember, the salvation of the country and the world could have been accomplished by simply giving total authority to 17-year-olds, as they knew everything there was to know about everything and had all the answers. 2. Something I've watched proven over myh 80 years is that there is no one so ignorant as an expert speaking on an area outside his or her area of expertise...and they often think that is not so, and insist that everyone around them agree. Not sure that one can "train" elites, if the term's definition is perfect knowledge of something. Generally, no one has anything 100% right, and if someone insists that they do, everything the say and do should be suspect. In truth, I would argue that the best way to prevent discovery of more and better approaches/solutions to anything is to continue as now is true in America: indoctrinate in schools rather than encourage, preserve, and protect opposing points of view that will encourage original thought and approaches leading to "bettering" civilization. Erasing, re-writing or sanitizing history will do the opposite. Enforced diversity guarantees descent to the lowest common denominator rather than promote and encourage excellence and top performance. And that leads to failure(s) on all levels. "Elites" should not be paid homage or even identified, as that level of performance is by its very nature transitory...temporary even. Once anyone sees themselves as "elite" they start speaking, declaring, controlling, and stop listening and questioning themselves...and they then have abandoned the mind set that enabled reaching their high position of respect...and it is gone in an instant.
Being an Elite is not the same as being and Intellectual or someone who is genuinely an Authority in their area of Scientific Research or some other field of knowledge. Get rid of the money and you will get rid of the 2nd 3rd 5th and 10th rate pseudo Scientists, Economic, Business, Psychological experts etc. You have to have a system based on MERIT and nothing else. Elites do not need to be trained and the pseudo Elites we see today should be shunned and many imprisoned.
Spoken like a true man of the institutions of government.
We simply do not have 50 years to reshape or co-opt the federal bureaucracy, academia or the governing class. Since the Republican Party itself is just as corrupt and even more incompetent than the Democratic Party a mere change of parties in 2022 and 2024 will do nothing.
Both the empire and its domestic institutions are crumbling before our eyes and reforming them is simply impossible. They must dug out root and branch. Claremont’s plan is nonsense on stilts.
I think the only viable plan is to break all of the private-public partnerships that have been created since 1960 and proliferated beyond belief since 2000; Eisenhower warned us abut them 75 years years ago and those chickens are coming home to roost with a vengeance.
Abolish all tax exemptions for charitable and nonprofit enterprises and foundations. Abolish the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and broadly reduce the staffing in every other federal agency, department and branch of government by 50%. Return as many federal functions as possible to the states. Stop subsidizing liberal arts education in general and stop funding almost all research - as Peterson says most of this research produces only fraudulent or unreliable results. Shut down immigration completely. Finally, and most importantly, vote out of office every sitting incumbent. We may lose a few good ones but they amount to less to 10% of the sitting members of Congress.
The "replication crisis" is real; the "replication crisis" is a symptom of something quite large and ominous...
Medical science has been compromised since at least the late 1980s, when I first started noticing politically-influenced journal articles offered as peer-reviewed science. In the 1990s the leftist bias burst into the open, with editors, organized medicine leaders, and state and federal agency officials going on record as explicitly endorsing leftist political aims. So no, don't follow (just) the science.
Training is always good, as long as it doesn't descend into indoctrination. Reading this quite well-written article led me, nonetheless, to recall two basic recurring thoughts: 1. As most of us remember, the salvation of the country and the world could have been accomplished by simply giving total authority to 17-year-olds, as they knew everything there was to know about everything and had all the answers. 2. Something I've watched proven over myh 80 years is that there is no one so ignorant as an expert speaking on an area outside his or her area of expertise...and they often think that is not so, and insist that everyone around them agree. Not sure that one can "train" elites, if the term's definition is perfect knowledge of something. Generally, no one has anything 100% right, and if someone insists that they do, everything the say and do should be suspect. In truth, I would argue that the best way to prevent discovery of more and better approaches/solutions to anything is to continue as now is true in America: indoctrinate in schools rather than encourage, preserve, and protect opposing points of view that will encourage original thought and approaches leading to "bettering" civilization. Erasing, re-writing or sanitizing history will do the opposite. Enforced diversity guarantees descent to the lowest common denominator rather than promote and encourage excellence and top performance. And that leads to failure(s) on all levels. "Elites" should not be paid homage or even identified, as that level of performance is by its very nature transitory...temporary even. Once anyone sees themselves as "elite" they start speaking, declaring, controlling, and stop listening and questioning themselves...and they then have abandoned the mind set that enabled reaching their high position of respect...and it is gone in an instant.
Being an Elite is not the same as being and Intellectual or someone who is genuinely an Authority in their area of Scientific Research or some other field of knowledge. Get rid of the money and you will get rid of the 2nd 3rd 5th and 10th rate pseudo Scientists, Economic, Business, Psychological experts etc. You have to have a system based on MERIT and nothing else. Elites do not need to be trained and the pseudo Elites we see today should be shunned and many imprisoned.
Spoken like a true man of the institutions of government.
We simply do not have 50 years to reshape or co-opt the federal bureaucracy, academia or the governing class. Since the Republican Party itself is just as corrupt and even more incompetent than the Democratic Party a mere change of parties in 2022 and 2024 will do nothing.
Both the empire and its domestic institutions are crumbling before our eyes and reforming them is simply impossible. They must dug out root and branch. Claremont’s plan is nonsense on stilts.
I think the only viable plan is to break all of the private-public partnerships that have been created since 1960 and proliferated beyond belief since 2000; Eisenhower warned us abut them 75 years years ago and those chickens are coming home to roost with a vengeance.
Abolish all tax exemptions for charitable and nonprofit enterprises and foundations. Abolish the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services and broadly reduce the staffing in every other federal agency, department and branch of government by 50%. Return as many federal functions as possible to the states. Stop subsidizing liberal arts education in general and stop funding almost all research - as Peterson says most of this research produces only fraudulent or unreliable results. Shut down immigration completely. Finally, and most importantly, vote out of office every sitting incumbent. We may lose a few good ones but they amount to less to 10% of the sitting members of Congress.