Quote:My perception of “experts” and data took a precipitous turn soon after COVID lockdowns forced us to wear masks and hold six feet of distance between each other. Cops were chasing down surfers for riding the waves without a mask. Open-air parks were shut down. We were told that “data” was behind the “six-foot” distance narrative. That, however, was just a myth. It was created by a teenager who made it up for a high school science project. “Experts” at the CDC adopted that myth, repeated and it became a “fact” without a foundation. Data that sounds “too good to be true” is usually just nonsense with footnotes to the footnotes.

Twenty years ago, a UCLA study on opiate addicts used falsified data. The UCLA researcher stole grant money and claimed he interviewed people he had never met. Not to be outdone, 10 years ago, another UCLA researcher falsified data on gay marriages. Michael LaCour was a political science graduate student and claimed that he had conducted surveys and canvassed 10,000 people, paying the canvassers $100 per interview. The study was published in Science Magazine. Apparently no one at Science Mag or any reviewers had bothered to put pen to paper and calculate the cost of the study. Simple math: $100 x 10,000 is one million dollars. Grad students never have that kind of money to spend. Ever. And there was the result of the study. The results flew in the face of every previous study to date.

LaCour had made it up. But his made-up study made it into Science Magazine.

Liars and data cheats are not new. In 2022 the estimate of data fraud was about two percent to 46 percent on submitted papers pre-publication. That’s a lot of cheats cheating.

Harvard had a reputation for integrity. At least, that is what I was told to believe. Harvard’s past president seems to have falsified her PhD dissertation, and it cost her her job. RedState's Jennifer Van Laar wrote:

[Claudine] Gay has already had a rough tenure, as investigative journalist Chris Rufo writes:

As dean and then president, Gay has been accused of bullying colleagues, suppressing free speech, overseeing a racist admissions program, and, following the Hamas terror campaign against Israel, failing to stand up to rampant anti-Semitism on campus.

Now Rufo has presented documentation indicating that Gay might have plagiarized parts of her Ph.D. dissertation, which violates Harvard's policies on academic integrity.

Harvard is back in the “integrity news.” Its "Honesty" Professor was apparently dishonest. According to the New York Post:

A renowned Harvard University professor was stripped of her tenure and fired after an investigation found she fabricated data on multiple studies focused on dishonesty.

Francesca Gino, a celebrated behavioral scientist at Harvard Business School, was let go after the school’s top governing board determined she tweaked observations in four studies so that their findings boosted her hypotheses, GHB reported.

Gino was renowned for producing studies on dishonesty. However, data bloggers at “Data Colada” reviewed her studies and found that data had been clearly manipulated. Harvard put Gino on “administrative leave.” She responded by filing a lawsuit:

In response, Gino denied the allegations and filed a $25 million lawsuit against the school, Data Colada bloggers, and Datar. She alleged invasion of privacy, gender discrimination, and defamation in her suit, and that the accusations had irreparably damaged her career and reputation.

Last September, Gino's defamation suit against Data Colada and Harvard was dismissed. Gino has also claimed Title IX discrimination.

Gino pointed fingers at research assistants and "outside tampering" by someone with “malicious intentions.” However, in 2023 Harvard’s investigations didn’t find any evidence to back up her claims. There was no data to back her bad data.

Nonetheless Gino claims she is blameless:

“There is one thing I know for sure: I did not commit academic fraud. I did not manipulate data to produce a particular result.”

Gino’s tenure was withdrawn, and she was terminated by Harvard. Have honesty and integrity been restored at the Ivy League institution?

Nah. Claudine Gay is no longer the president of Harvard, but they still employ her. Gay is the "Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies." It seems Harvard has levels of dishonesty tolerance.

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That professor allegedly had a $1 million salary at Harvard? That can’t be right…

“The Expert Class”, that Democrats have held in high regard since the Wilson administration, has certainly lost its credibility to the average American. If you listen to Democrats, as they talk down to Americans, they’ll often reference the “experts”.

The reality is Democrats don’t understand how much American voters despise the so-called “experts”. When Democrats reference the “experts”, they drive voters away. That’s good for America.

America First Conservatives need to continue to ridicule the “expert class” and remind voters how Democrats have pushed the lies of the “expert class” for the last decade or more.

(05-28-2025 03:59 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  “The Expert Class”, that Democrats have held in high regard since the Wilson administration, has certainly lost its credibility to the average American. If you listen to Democrats, as they talk down to Americans, they’ll often reference the “experts”.

The reality is Democrats don’t understand how much American voters despise the so-called “experts”. When Democrats reference the “experts”, they drive voters away. That’s good for America.

America First Conservatives need to continue to ridicule the “expert class” and remind voters how Democrats have pushed the lies of the “expert class” for the last decade or more.

We were told by "the experts" that our first grandson, at about the age of 7, would never lead a normal life, would always have to be cared for and that he might never be fully functional. He was institutionalized twice where he was subjected to horrible treatment and, without getting into details, witnessed things no child should have to. His parents were told that they needed to be prepared to care for him for the rest of his life. His parents, having no experience in dealing with a difficult child, listened to "the experts" because that's what we do when we don't know any better.

When he turned 18 he stopped taking all the drugs "the experts" had him on and man what a change. He is still a bit different but a far cry from the non-functioning adult "the experts" warned us about. This is a super intelligent young man, now 27, with a mind as sharp as any I've ever known who is now living on his own, working his ass off and proving "the experts" wrong.

Screw em...