Dr. James Lindsay
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the institutions have been so cataclysmically faulty in the last 10 years that the only possible antidote to their falseness is really unrestrained investigation. And Joe's been a master of unrestrained investigation, obviously, because he's allowed his interest to take him wherever it goes, which...
which allied with a certain amount of conscience is a pretty good orienting function as far as I'm concerned. And I'm at a loss to some degree how to reconcile those viewpoints because I think it is a cataclysm that the institutions have become unreliable, but let's walk through them a little bit. I think the universities are gone.
which allied with a certain amount of conscience is a pretty good orienting function as far as I'm concerned. And I'm at a loss to some degree how to reconcile those viewpoints because I think it is a cataclysm that the institutions have become unreliable, but let's walk through them a little bit. I think the universities are gone.
which allied with a certain amount of conscience is a pretty good orienting function as far as I'm concerned. And I'm at a loss to some degree how to reconcile those viewpoints because I think it is a cataclysm that the institutions have become unreliable, but let's walk through them a little bit. I think the universities are gone.
I think that Harvard is having this war with Trump and that Trump is 100% right. Yep, me too. The president of Harvard, in my understanding, said to the Trump administration that it was unfair to punish the researchers by withholding their research funds. But I look at that and I think those researchers have been filling out DEI statements for 10 years.
I think that Harvard is having this war with Trump and that Trump is 100% right. Yep, me too. The president of Harvard, in my understanding, said to the Trump administration that it was unfair to punish the researchers by withholding their research funds. But I look at that and I think those researchers have been filling out DEI statements for 10 years.
I think that Harvard is having this war with Trump and that Trump is 100% right. Yep, me too. The president of Harvard, in my understanding, said to the Trump administration that it was unfair to punish the researchers by withholding their research funds. But I look at that and I think those researchers have been filling out DEI statements for 10 years.
So as far as I'm concerned, they lost all their credibility. They're not independent researchers at all. And they could say and have said that they were just following the rules. It's like... That's not a very good excuse if you're a seeker after knowledge, right? If the rules have become pathological, you have an obligation to cease following them.
So as far as I'm concerned, they lost all their credibility. They're not independent researchers at all. And they could say and have said that they were just following the rules. It's like... That's not a very good excuse if you're a seeker after knowledge, right? If the rules have become pathological, you have an obligation to cease following them.
So as far as I'm concerned, they lost all their credibility. They're not independent researchers at all. And they could say and have said that they were just following the rules. It's like... That's not a very good excuse if you're a seeker after knowledge, right? If the rules have become pathological, you have an obligation to cease following them.
Harvard took its DEI head, I think it was Harvard, and kept the person and changed the name. Well, all the universities are going to do that.
Harvard took its DEI head, I think it was Harvard, and kept the person and changed the name. Well, all the universities are going to do that.
Harvard took its DEI head, I think it was Harvard, and kept the person and changed the name. Well, all the universities are going to do that.
Why wouldn't they?
Why wouldn't they?
Why wouldn't they?
More deceitful even, right? It's another form of mimicry. And I guess that's another thing we could point out about the psychopathic 5% is that they're masters of camouflage. What a psychopath does is mimic competence, right? That's right. And usually they can't get away with it because, not for long, because they... They don't create, they destroy.
More deceitful even, right? It's another form of mimicry. And I guess that's another thing we could point out about the psychopathic 5% is that they're masters of camouflage. What a psychopath does is mimic competence, right? That's right. And usually they can't get away with it because, not for long, because they... They don't create, they destroy.
More deceitful even, right? It's another form of mimicry. And I guess that's another thing we could point out about the psychopathic 5% is that they're masters of camouflage. What a psychopath does is mimic competence, right? That's right. And usually they can't get away with it because, not for long, because they... They don't create, they destroy.
And eventually that evidence accrues and then they have to leave and find another host, so to speak. Now online, that's a snap, right? Because you can just switch out. Exactly. You can just switch your identity. That's right. And you've solved the problem, or you can multiply it beyond. And then there's a bot problem online, too.