Dennis Prager Show - 2020 should've taught us to have contempt for the term 'expert'
Aired: 2021-05-04
Duration: 05:07


=== Experts Confuse Expertise (05:07) ===

[00:00:00]  What we have done to children, what the experts...
[00:00:03]  I should write a column on good things, good lessons to learn from the last year.
[00:00:14]  One of them would be that you need contempt for the term experts.
[00:00:19]  Contempt.
[00:00:21]  As soon as they give advice, you must assume they're a fool.
[00:00:28]  I don't know why.
[00:00:29]  Well, I do know why.
[00:00:30]  I take it back.
[00:00:32]  Experts confuse expertise with wisdom.
[00:00:36]  They are not related, and so you are likely to get advice from a fool who happens to be an expert in some narrow arena of science, or whatever it might be.
[00:00:54]  The commander-in-chief of the U.S. Armed Forces is a civilian.
[00:00:59]  One who may have never even served in the armed forces.
[00:01:03]  Called the President of the United States.
[00:01:04]  That's why they salute him.
[00:01:07]  He is above every general.
[00:01:10]  Why did we have that done?
[00:01:13]  Why aren't experts on the military in charge of the military?
[00:01:19]  Ah.
[00:01:22]  That was the brilliant insight of the founders.
[00:01:24]  Not to allow that.
[00:01:29]  But we allow it in medicine.
[00:01:34]  The CDC maintains that vaccinated adults who work at these camps should continue to be masked.
[00:01:41]  And of course, kids should wear masks too.
[00:01:43]  Why would you send your kid to a camp where they had to be masked?
[00:01:47]  It's unfair to your kid.
[00:01:51]  CDC is a crappy organization.
[00:01:53]  I am telling you, I've never said this.
[00:01:56]  This is all new, do you understand?
[00:01:58]  I never, ever thought this way.
[00:02:01]  It's painful to realize the CDC is morally and intellectually worthless.
[00:02:08]  Worthless.
[00:02:09]  Worse than worthless.
[00:02:10]  Damaging.
[00:02:14]  The medical establishment has disgraced itself over the course of the last year.
[00:02:21]  Not just the CDC. These people making these absurd calls will be sitting in air-conditioned offices while your children and their underpaid counselor will be needlessly sweating under their masks, playing color war in 90-degree weather.
[00:02:38]  Don't listen to them.
[00:02:43]  Also last week, the CDC finally released updated guidance for vaccinated people.
[00:02:49]  Vaccinated people, except apparently summer camp counselors, can now dine outdoors and gather maskless in small groups outside.
[00:02:59]  Most sane people have been doing this for a while.
[00:03:02]  Yep, like me from the very beginning.
[00:03:06]  Last Sunday, national virus guru Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN, the risk when you're outdoors...
[00:03:16]  Which we have been saying all along is extremely low.
[00:03:19]  All along?
[00:03:21]  Ha!
[00:03:22]  Ha!
[00:03:24]  Oh my God, what a lie.
[00:03:28]  And the writer in the New York Post says, they've been saying that all along?
[00:03:33]  No, of course they haven't.
[00:03:35]  In fact, Fauci has said many times the importance of masking even outdoors.
[00:03:40]  Who could forget him standing on a pitcher's mound last spring, 90 feet from the nearest person still wearing his mask?
[00:03:48]  Remember that?
[00:03:49]  Yeah.
[00:03:50]  That's why it's so important to now tune out Fauci and the CDC. Their misinformation and constant flip-flops are causing a societal harm.
[00:04:01]  Don't believe it?
[00:04:02]  Last Friday, CDC boss Dr. Rochelle Walensky said the CDC recommends that...
[00:04:07]  Pregnant people receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
[00:04:12]  On Monday, the CDC seemed to walk back her comments, noting the agency's recommendation remains simply that pregnant people are eligible and can receive a COVID-19.
[00:04:22]  Why would she, by the way, notice pregnant people?
[00:04:27]  Notice that?
[00:04:28]  How sick?
[00:04:29]  How sick the leftist germ is?
[00:04:34]  Is it pervasive?
[00:04:38]  The head of the CDC will not say pregnant women.
[00:04:43]  Did you notice that?
[00:04:47]  Pregnant people.
[00:04:50]  Yes, including men.
[00:04:52]  Pregnant men or women.
[00:04:53]  Why didn't she say that?
[00:04:57]  Because the calls to have her removed from her position would be quite loud and numerous.
[00:05:04]  So she sneaked in.
[00:05:06]  Pregnant people.