June 12, 2021 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Have you heard about this? | |
| This latest thing from Dr. | |
| Fauci? I did a wee rant on it today, but let's talk about Dr. | |
| Fauci, alright? So, Dr. | |
| Fauci was giving an interview with Chuck Todd from MSNBC. And said some truly, I mean, they're not astonishing things if you understand the way that governments work and power and corruption works, but it's truly an astonishing thing. | |
| When you think about the basics of science. | |
| So this is what Dr. | |
| Anthony Fauci said, showing his absolute pig ignorance of science as a whole. | |
| He said, He blinded me with science. | |
| So first of all, speaking in the third person, not always a sign of the greatest mental health. | |
| Of course, could be a little bit megalomaniacal. | |
| I know Trump did it too. | |
| So he says, anybody who looks at what's going on clearly sees that. | |
| You'd have to be asleep not to see that. | |
| That's what's going on. Science and the truth of being attacked. | |
| Oh my God. | |
| Just amazing. | |
| Just amazing stuff. | |
| And he said, everything that I've decided, everything that I've said has been based on science and facts and reason and evidence. | |
| So basically, conflating yourself with science as a whole is... | |
| Not an argument in any way, shape, or form. | |
| If you want to find out more about this kind of stuff, might I cordially invite you to check out my book, The Art of the Argument. | |
| You can get it at www.artoftheargument.com. | |
| But, yeah, you are not science, Dr. | |
| Fauci. You are not science. | |
| See, science is not taking the word of experts. | |
| As gospel. As gospel. | |
| You see, if your principle had been applied to pre-scientific ages, there'd be no such thing as science at all. | |
| Because, you see, in the past, before science, theologians claimed that they knew the origins of the universe, they knew the origins of life, they knew the shape of the earth, they knew that it was flat and in the center of the universe, and the earth does not move, and... | |
| So people had to say that authority and truth are not synonyms. | |
| In fact, quite often they're antonyms. | |
| The opposite is the case. | |
| And so you're attacking not only Dr. | |
| Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science. | |
| So apparently, you see, science works like this. | |
| You get one guy whose salary is paid for by forced taxpayer money at the point of a gun. | |
| You give him vast powers to dictate public policy with no accountability, no check or balance, no debate allowed. | |
| And then he tells you what the truth is. | |
| And if you question that, Well, clearly you're anti-science. | |
| So he's elevated himself to be the Pope of the modern cult of scientism. | |
| He has elevated himself to be the Pope, the infallible Pope at the top of the modern cult of scientism. | |
| See, in the past, you had to say, well, God says so, or the Bible says so, or the Koran says so. | |
| This is how you would establish the truth of your proposition. | |
| You would say that God is on your side, God approves of what you say, and everybody who disagrees with you is a heretic who hates Jesus. | |
| Now, we don't really believe that stuff as much anymore, but now we have a new Italian slithering into the Pope's uniform just in a pretend white lab coat because now, you see, he says, look, if you doubt me, if you doubt me, I am going to say the magic word that compels your compliance. | |
| The magic word is science. | |
| See, the magic word used to be God. | |
| Now the magic word is science! | |
| Because you see, science is just some guy appointed by the government telling you what science is. | |
| It's not an open act of skepticism and exploration and data and alternate conjectures and hypotheses and rigorous testing. | |
| No, you've got to be kidding. | |
| That's the Baconian science. | |
| I mean, that's science from like 500 years ago. | |
| You don't use a sundial, do you, anymore? | |
| You don't ride to work on the back of a donkey. | |
| No, no, no. That's old science. | |
| Old science is when you don't listen to bullshit spewed forward by supposed experts, but you think for yourself, reason for yourself, examine the data, and understand that there's a lot of self-interest, there's a lot of corruption, there's a lot of manipulation. | |
| Strangely enough, a lot of the scientists working on gain-of-function research don't seem to like The lab leak hypothesis. | |
| Huh! Isn't that interesting? | |
| In the same vein, a lot of bank robbers don't like security cameras. | |
| So yeah, a lot of the scientists, either funding, involved in, promoting, disseminating, peer reviewing, or directly working in gain-of-function research, because, you know, nature's just not enough of a bitch. | |
| We got a super-bitcher up. | |
| Why do you do that? | |
| Why do you create super viruses? | |
| Well, to help humanity, of course. | |
| Have you never seen a horror movie? | |
| Have you never read Frankenstein? | |
| It's all to help humanity. | |
| That's why the Chinese were working. | |
| On gain-of-function bat coronaviruses. | |
| And why a thousand kilometers away from the closest bat coronavirus, it just happened to emerge right by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has sections which have the exact same level of security as your average U.S. dentist's office. | |
| See, that's, you know... Now, was it winter? | |
| I mean, because you might think, well, how did a bat get a thousand miles? | |
| They didn't sell any bats at the Wuhan market, for sure. | |
| The fish market, absolutely not. | |
| There weren't any bats there. | |
| So how did they get there? | |
| Well, the one thing that people don't generally understand about bats, Chinese bats in particular, is how incredibly superhuman they are. | |
| See, Chinese bats can not only ski, but they can ski Asleep. | |
| Now, that's really an incredible thing. | |
| Nature is absolutely wonderful. | |
| Richard Mattenberg, right? | |
| Nature's incredible. Because bats hibernate in the winter. | |
| And bats like to fly, but what people don't understand, and this is probably a result of subsidies to the popsicle industry, is that bats can get little popsicle sticks and they can ski largely uphill over the course of the winter while they're actually hibernating. | |
| They can sleep ski uphill 1,000 kilometers, which given our relative size is like you and I skiing uphill halfway to the moon, right? | |
| Amazing, amazing creatures. | |
| And along the entire path, a thousand kilometers from where the coronavirus bats are in some province, to the Woonhead Institute of Virology, from that whole distance, not only did the bats ski uphill while hibernating in winter, but they didn't infect anyone along the way. | |
| Because if there's one thing we know about communism, it's its deep and abiding respect for the sanctity of human life. | |
| 100 million killed in the 20th century, okay. | |
| There have been a couple of missteps along the way, but clearly communism is motored by a deep and abiding respect for the sanctity of human life, which is why they were working on this stuff. | |
| Because they just wanted to help everyone. | |
| Because that's what communism... | |
| It's all about helping people right now. | |
| They're trying to help the people in Hong Kong by, well, mass arrests. | |
| That's how you help people. | |
| They helped 100 million people shuffle off this mortal coil. | |
| Maybe those people had an unhappy life. | |
| Maybe they... Face the future of a deadly illness. | |
| Maybe they couldn't find their toenail clippers and they really needed to clip their toenails. | |
| Whatever was plaguing them in their life, communism helped to take them out of that veil of tears, the veil of misery, and move them on to what communists would deny is a better place, but other people might think is a better place. | |
| So in terms of helping tens of millions of Christians meet Jesus, I mean, that's... | |
| It's what they do, man. It's how they help. | |
| It's how they add to the virtue and positivity of the world. | |
| And if you remember the OJ trial, right? | |
| The OJ trial where OJ got off and some guy flashed the Black Power salute and they completely ignored all of the bloody footprints and the shoes and the bloody glove. | |
| Anyway, so OJ got off. | |
| In my opinion, of course, OJ killed Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, sawed their head off and so on. | |
| So when OJ... He got off. | |
| He didn't get off in the civil trial, but he got off in the criminal trial. | |
| He then pledged to find the actual murderers of his wife and the waiter who was returning his wife's mother's glasses or something like that. | |
| Now, did he actually put a lot of effort into finding the real killers? | |
| Well, no, because, again, in my opinion, I think there's a lot of facts to back me up here. | |
| O.J. Simpson... Well, to find the killers was as easy as looking in the mirror. | |
| So he could really find, every time he shaved, every time he brushed his hair, every time he put eye drops in, he would look in the mirror and he'd be like, oh my god, I found the killer. | |
| Well, killer, not killers. I found the killer. | |
| And so he would claim to be looking for the killers, but he would see the killers every day, in my opinion. | |
| In the same way, watching the Chinese Communist Party look for The animal-to-human transmitter of SARS-CoV-2 is exactly like watching O.J. Simpson look for the killers of his wife and Ron Goldman. | |
| So just really wanted to point that out. | |
| The other thing I'd mention is Dr. | |
| Fauci says, look, every single decision I was made was based on facts and evidence. | |
| And there's kind of a – it's a funny thing among younger people these days where they say, well, I'm right because reasons. | |
| Right now it's literally – it's become a meme. | |
| I'm right because reasons. | |
| And I'm right because science. | |
| I'm right because of reason and evidence. | |
| It's like, can you give me those reasons? | |
| No. Right? | |
| So he's saying he's right. | |
| And anybody who questions him is questioning science. | |
| Because every decision he's made from the very beginning of the pandemic is based on facts, reason, evidence, science, data, studies, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| Now, this is... | |
| I was completely mad. And it only could be said in front of a population so woefully misinformed that they think a Kardashian clan has talent. | |
| So let me tell you why this is so crazy. | |
| So what Dr. | |
| Fauci is saying, and I'm sorry to all the real doctors, and I'm sorry to all the real scientists, including him in this designation, but I guess this was where he got his designation. | |
| But what he's saying is that in the beginning of a brand new pandemic, Where almost no data was known. | |
| Where the theories as to how this thing developed and how it spread were multiplying, well, like the virus itself. | |
| Where the long-term health effects, short-term treatments, medium-term consequences of the virus were almost completely unknown. | |
| In other words, he knew exactly where he was going In a tornado, fog, wind stream, confusion land. | |
| He knows exactly the physics of my dreams and exactly... | |
| So from the very beginning, all of his decisions were based on facts, reason, and evidence. | |
| Even though, even though, the facts, reason, and evidence for many of the decisions that he was making didn't even exist yet. | |
| It's a miracle. | |
| So not only... Is Anthony Fauci the dictionary definition of science itself? | |
| In fact, you can just get rid of all the funding for science and just give money to Anthony Fauci because he is science. | |
| He is science. You don't need anyone else. | |
| Just get rid of it. Get everything else. | |
| Just go and ask. | |
| You kneel before him. It's like the Oracle at Delphi. | |
| You've got a direct pathway to the self-proclaimed Guido of science. | |
| The Guido God of science, Anthony Fauci. | |
| Just go and ask him. | |
| Kiss his ring. Probably make a sacrifice. | |
| Give him some hair oil. Try and find something. | |
| This guy has smirked his way through the entire pandemic. | |
| All he does is kind of half laugh, half kind. | |
| Okay, three and a half million dead if you take the official statistics, which I'm sure he does. | |
| Doesn't matter. He's still kind of giggling his way through this pandemic. | |
| And can you imagine? Can you imagine Winston Churchill in the Battle of Britain having the same giggly schoolgirl demeanor as Anthony Fauci over the course of the pandemic? | |
| It's incomprehensible and insulting to the dead and the grieving that he's just smirking and laughing his way. | |
| And when he's given a tough question from Rand Paul, Anthony Fauci says, I don't really follow. | |
| I don't really understand. | |
| Can you slow down and say that again? | |
| Because I'm 80 and I'm sad! | |
| Crazy stuff. So... | |
| Dr. Fauci, I mean, why would you put him in charge of the pandemic when clearly he has the ability to travel through time? | |
| Because when data was missing or absent at the beginning of the pandemic, as it was for several months, he said he based all of his decisions on reason, evidence, facts, science, and data, much of which didn't actually exist. | |
| There's only one explanation. Well, there's two explanations. | |
| One is that he's lying through his eyes, but the other one is that he has a time portal. | |
| Like, he can go forward in time, gather data from the future, And then he can come back so that when he's making decisions in the absence of data, it only looks like he's making decisions in the absence of data because you're stuck in your contemporary temporal time phrase. | |
| The fact that he can open up a portal, it doesn't have to be a big portal because he's a tiny guy, that he can open up a portal, go forward in time, get the data, bring it back to the present, and then he can legitimately say, hey man, All my information, all my decision was based on data. | |
| Well, the data didn't exist. | |
| Ah, yes. For you in this time frame, yes. | |
| But if you go forward six months, get the data, and then come back, ah, you didn't think of time travel, did you? | |
| Do you know why you didn't think of time travel? | |
| You didn't think of time travel. | |
| Because you're not science. | |
| I am science. | |
| And I'm not just science in the present. | |
| I'm future science that doesn't even exist yet. | |
| So the fact that he can pendulum back and forth the time-space dimension, really, really quite impressive. | |
| And obviously there's very good comedy shows six months from now, which is why he always comes back and is giggling his way through the pandemic. | |
| So it really is astounding. | |
| The other thing, too, is that there was a lot of contradictory information at the beginning. | |
| So either there was no information, there was a small amount of certainty, or there was a lot of contradictory information. | |
| So where there was no data, obviously went forward in time, got the data, came back. | |
| Where there was contradictory data, he knew which data was correct. | |
| Do masks work or do they not work? | |
| Well, he flip-flopped a couple of times back and forth at the beginning, Dr. | |
| Fauci. But clearly, when he was anti-mask, he was completely correct, based upon the data. | |
| A week later, when he was pro-mask, clearly he was completely correct based upon the data. | |
| Now, to your mind, it may feel or seem like a contradiction that he's anti-mask based upon the data, then a week later he's pro-mask based upon the data. | |
| But that's because it may seem contradictory, but that's because you're not science and he is. | |
| So it may seem contradictory to you, but if you simply suspend your capacity for even the most basic critical thinking or comparison of arguments, you can just relax your mind. | |
| Just like relax your mind. | |
| Go full rubber bones, full rubber spine on your brain and just trust that it may seem contradictory. | |
| But if the party says that two and two make both four and five, then two and two make both four and five, Winston Smith. | |
| And if you disagree with me, I'm afraid I'm going to have to pull another one of your teeth out through your eyeballs, okay? | |
| So maybe, just maybe, you want to go with O'Brien, sorry, Fauci here in this particular situation. | |
| So where there was contradictory information at the same time, Dr. | |
| Dr. Fauci knew which piece of information was the correct one, even though he changed his opinion over the course of the pandemic. | |
| He always knew which information was the best. | |
| Do lockdowns work? | |
| Are they beneficial? | |
| Or are they not particularly effective and cause massive disruptions and death and suicide and opiate addiction and business shutdowns and stress and a lack of preventive procedures and a lack of elective surgeries? | |
| And like, are lockdowns beneficial or are they not beneficial? | |
| Now, and again, because you're trapped in this petty bourgeois mind space and you don't have the capacity to waltz back and forth through time like a spaceship in a Stanley Kubrick movie, you may think to yourself, well, how on earth could Anthony Fauci know about the values and virtues of lockdowns prior to there being lockdowns? how on earth could Anthony Fauci know about the values Because lockdowns have never, ever been used before to contain a coronavirus. | |
| They weren't used in the 56, 57, 58 epidemic. | |
| They weren't used in the 1919 Spanish flu epidemic. | |
| They've not been used for airborne viruses ever in the past. | |
| So when Dr. | |
| Fauci says, because it's pro-lockdown, right? | |
| Dr. Fauci says, well, I based all my evidence All my reasoning, all my statements were based on reason, evidence, facts, and science. | |
| And he was pro-lockdown when there was no history of lockdowns from which he could pull that data. | |
| Again, I don't mean to correct you, but as an acolyte of the Dr. | |
| Fauci, white-suited, reverence, walking on water, holy benefactor, pope of scientism, I just have to tell you, when he says he based... | |
| His statements on data, and you think to yourself, well, wait a minute, that data didn't even exist yet, so how could you base your decisions on data when the data about lockdowns was still months away? | |
| Well, I just have to tell you, you're wrong. | |
| Why are you wrong? Because reasons. | |
| Because Fauci. Because the word science has been invoked. | |
| And if the word science gets invoked, you're supposed to be scared off into your medieval hut. | |
| Go eat your bugs. | |
| Go live in the pot. Go obey your elders. | |
| Because they've said the magic word science. | |
| And science is now the phrase used instead of shut up peasant or off with your head. | |
| And by the way, If you beg him enough for the experimental therapy called the COVID vaccine, if you beg him enough, maybe, |
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