Comments by "Rob McCune" (@robm6645) on "The Death of "Expertise"" video.

  1. This guy is not much of an expert in the death of expertise if he thinks weak coddled people are bigger problem than billions of dollars spent on propaganda and fake expertise by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, as well as the billions spent right wing disinformation media. Both of the science deniers and the right wing media constantly attack actual expertise and create their own bubbles, which ironically are busy saying that colleges are coddling students and creating weak people.
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  2. Oh Pinky how far you have you have fallen, I remember when you would just give standard libertarian talking points and at least attempt a vernier of respectability. Neither healthcare nor the climate of the earth are living organisms with mutable heritable traits that can multiply and produce variation within a population that can be selected for based on its fitness. Therefore neither healthcare nor climate change evolved.
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  3. Pinky the left doesn't say climate change is bad, science says anthropogenic global warming is bad. As for health care there is a trade off between universal affordable coverage and private profit. This is a value judgement not a denial of facts, also no one is arguing that universal healthcare is going to stop research into new diseases except you. So the fact "the left" hasn't repudiated the thought experiment of some internet nobody is not an argument. There is also the fact that money saved by switching to a cheaper universal healthcare option could be reallocated to fund more research.
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  4. "Yes they do. Prime example is Bernie Sanders. " No they don't, he's citing science on anthropogenic global warming. "No it doesn't as it is a vague topic that covers many fields in science." Rising sea levels encroaching on hundreds of major cities with millions of residents a piece is most assuredly objectively bad. And this is only one effect of climate change. "As I told you we do not understand the physics of photosynthesis." The first paper I can across was "Two-dimensional electronic spectra of the photosynthetic apparatus of green sulfur bacteria" published in Nature. In the paper it was stated the authors were trying to model a structure consisting of 10^5 chlorophyll molecules alone not including other proteins and molecules in the reaction. A quantum physics model of the entire system is going to be unbelievably complex. If you want to know the basic chemistry of photosynthesis, Cornelius van Neil discovered it in 1931 and numerous other scientists added to the understanding of the quantum mechanics of photosynthesis in the intervening decades, and modern scientists not being able to compute a monstrosity of well over 100,000 molecules doesn't invalidate their work and our current knowledge of photosynthesis. By the same token you can't dismiss the negative effects of global warming based on similarly bad analogies. "The US leads the world in research and innovation in healthcare for a reason." Yes, because the U.S. leads the world in many industries and many research areas. The latter is due to a strong university system and public investment in R&D. "And there it is. The old "save money" thing." Well yes saving money is a good thing. "At what cost? Lower quality." More like the cost of lower mortality rates, better outcomes, and fewer bankruptcies due to medial debt. I don't consider that to be lowering the quality of anything.
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