Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Fox News" channel.

@trollpatroltrollingthetrol842 You have kind of hit the nail on the head by random chance when you said "you know nothing about me nor my hobbies". That's the point: this is not something to opine on if it's only your hobby. It's for specialists to figure out. You don't do this with other subjects, do you? I mean, suppose someone asked you to referee a professional boxing match, or evaluate a design for a race-car. What would you say? You'd say "I'm sorry, but I don't know enough about boxing to be a referee in a professional match, and I don't know enough about auto-mechanics to evaluate a design for a race-car. You'll have to find someone who does know enough, and ask him!" That's what you'd say, right? But when it comes to virology, immunology, and epidemiology, which are much more complicated subjects than boxing or auto-mechanics, you imagine that you can read the real papers and evaluate the purveyors of pre-digested information and that your conclusions and opinions are worth a shtt. It's a mystery to me. And a surprise: for most of my life I admired and supported popular-science writers and lecturers like Steven Hawking and Stephen J. Gould. Popular science has turned out to be a very pernicious thing, because it feeds the American delusion that (in Isaac Asimov's words) "My ignorance is just as good as your science". The fact is unless you can do the math behind the science, you don't have the first clue what the science means.
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Right! If Trump were still President, we would be hearing that he was investigating and expected to have the answer very very soon. Why can't Biden tell us that???
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I remember when the LORD OF THE RINGS movies were new, when the one which features Gandalf and Saruman in conflict when Saruman tries to hold Gandalf prisoner on the roof of his tower (I don't remember which one it was), and I asked a friend of mine whether it was good, and he replied: "well, I didn't like it, because I hate watching two feeble old men fighting each other."
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If Dems are looking for a super-good-guy-hero to save the day, the obvious choice is… Jimmy Carter! (“Why not the best?”)
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For what crime?
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@naonaohu1821 And what did you learn? Or rather, what do you think you learned? Before the pandemic, you knew nothing about virology, biochemistry, epidemiology, statistics, immunology, or medicine. Now, after the pandemic, you still know nothing about virology, biochemistry, epidemiology, statistics, immunology, or medicine.
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@naonaohu1821 No, I don't know all, but I do know a bit of immunology. Unlike you. (Retired monoclonal-antibody guy, I am.) No one knows the origin of SARS-CoV-2. I don't; Fauci doesn't; Trump doesn't, and you certainly do not. And I can tell you this much: if SARS-CoV-2 had been a weapon of biological warfare, it would have been much worse than it was.
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@naonaohu1821 You are a loop-a-dupe. There used to be specialists in cult-deprogramming - if your kid joined the Moonies, you'd take him to see one of these specialists. You should consult one!
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@naonaohu1821 You seem to have a limited imagination. Just as well, really.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people asking Fauci hostile questions would not understand the answer if it were given seriously.
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The AMERICAN people are not capable of understanding the answers. The AMERICAN people know nothing about virology, immunology, epidemiology, statistics, genetics, medicine, pharmaceutical chemistry, or biotech. But a gang of con-men have convinced the AMERICAN people that they can understand these subjects without training or study. Isaac Asimov knew: "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
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Even the most honest people in the world don't like wasting time.
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Yes, this is very sad and disturbing, but not very common.
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There's a great way for President Trump to use this to his own advantage. First, go very public and make Biden's people agree, en masse and on camera, that Biden will debate several times, provided President Trump releases his tax returns and agrees to have a mutually-agreed panel fact check what the candidates say. And then, President Trump should do it all: he should release his tax returns, and, agree to the fact-checking panel. And then, show the voters what an idiot Biden is. That would be perfect political jiu-jitsu. Come on, Mr. President, do it!
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The Satanic Temple is not what you think it is.
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That's not what FBI is concerned about. FBI doesn't care whether or not you deny Him or are ashamed of Him. FBI cares about whether you are planning to commit illegal acts of violence because you think that that would be a good way to serve Him (or for any other reason).
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And they stole a bone from my dog's supper-dish! Outrageous!!!
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We still revere whistle-blowers, but we don't revere fake whistle-blowers who pretend to know something that needs to be revealed but it turns out to be nothing at all.
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Jimmy Failla is pretending to be an idiot. The fact that Fauci changed his position on masks when new data came to light, makes him MORE reliable, not less reliable, than someone who refuses to change his position. (The same is true of his change on whether AIDS could be transmitted by non-fluid-exchanging contact, by the way.)
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