Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Dangerous Rise of Anti-Intellectualism | Asmongold Reacts" video.

"The sanctity of centers of knowledge" Yup. This guy is just as religious as any Christian, it's just that his religion isn't Christian. Note how he's flipping out because his religion is taking flak.
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Galileo discovered two things -- that there were shadow-casting mountains on the Moon (and therefore it was not a perfect orb) and there were moons around Jupiter (which would have pierced the crystal sphere that Jupiter supposedly rode on.) The Church was too committed to Aristotelian thinking, which insisted on a geocentric universe because in a heliocentric universe we would observe stellar parallax. Because stellar parallax is not visible by the n*ked eye, Aristotle concluded that the universe was geocentric. The Church allowed Galileo to publish his findings but insisted that he publish them as a dialog or debate. Galileo published it thusly, but named the man representing the Church's view "Simplicio", an Italian word meaning "idiot" or "simpleton". Galileo's persecution is based on this act of bad faith.
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"They just don't respect the law" When the law is abused to go after people for their politics -- peaceful politics that everyone recognized as normal forty years ago -- people lose a certain amount of respect for the law, it's true.
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"Science is becoming more complicated, and therefore more difficult for the public to understand" It's worse than that. It's becoming more difficult for scientists to understand, and it's becoming absolutely impossible for computers to reliably model. Unreliable computer models are the real culprit behind our current climate change hysteria, although heavy biases in grant funding organizations has caused a great deal of trouble as well.
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"Convicted of 34 felonies, not a single change" Convicted of 34 bookkeeping entries that, in a sane world, do not rise to the level of this kind of label. It's more along the lines of, "the average American commits five felonies a day." If Trump clears out the sorts of people who bring prosecutions for this sort of bulls**t, he'll have done the country a service, including each and every person watching this video.
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Interesting to see how "smoking" is still considered a case of big-money silencing the truth. How many people smoke anymore? Out of those, how many do it in public?
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"Antifa" is misspelled. It should be "Ante-fas*ist" -- i.e., "before fas*ism", as it was the dumbest political backfire in world history. It was formed in Germany between the two world wars. Its activities -- especially its "direct actions" causing chaos in the streets -- were a major driver of normal German citizens voting for the law-and-order fas*ist party. If it hadn't been for "Antifa", the national soc*alists never would have won.
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"Could Trump bring in a Lysenko?" After his experience with Fauci, he's more likely to fire the thousands of Lysenkos infesting our executive agencies.
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Promoting general science literacy would be great. This guy might be a bit taken aback by how many of his sacred cows would be hamburger, in this process. The core dozen or so vaccines (measles, mumps, polio, whooping cough, smallpox, etc) that helped drop child mortality rates from around 50% to less than 1%, largely about 100 years ago, are obviously useful. Their interactions if you give them all at once are a little less well-characterized, because that's just how complicated biological systems are. The dozens of medications that have been given the label "vaccine", sometimes inaccurately so they can enjoy the legal benefits (government mandates, immunity from prosecution)? Not so much, especially when they're given in combinations whose impacts are near-impossible to predict. In terms of climate -- do the math for the role CO2's opacity, in the incoming solar flux vs. Earth's blackbody radiation, and you'll find that its contribution to the greenhouse effect is less than 0.1 degrees. Look at the stochastic computer models used to support claims that some kind of runaway effect would occur, and you find that these models can't be used to scientifically prove anything about the behavior or impact of one of their inputs (or even combination of their inputs). In other words, climate activists who claim to know anything at all about catastrophic impacts from CO2, are deluding themselves, just like they were when they said we were due for another ice age. The climate narrative flip-flopped very quickly, by the way. As late as 1978, Leonard Nimoy was warning about ice ages, and as early as 1990, the BBC was claiming global warming would boost temperatures 10-15 degrees by 2020. If we had a scientifically literate population, we would not have either this proliferation of vaccines, or "climate change" hysteria.
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"If a smart person votes one way and a dumb person votes the opposite way, it's like the smart person never voted at all." Not really. Search "The Wisdom of Crowds". (Then search "The madness of crowds" for a counterbalance, it's fun too.)
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"The culprit is not the scientific community" Except the "scientific community" is becoming just as prone to purity spirals and witch-hunts as the politicians who provide their funding. Scientists have become extremely politicized. This drives a great deal of anti-intellectualism, by the way.
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"Gott mit Uns" was a German slogan reaching back centuries, it didn't start with the mid-century Germans. For them, the state was uber alles, including above God. This is why they persecuted devout Christians who refused to go along with the "scientific experts" of the state, who preached eugenics among other atrocities. An interesting side note: The biology textbook at issue in America's famous Scopes trial, which was condemned by devout Americans such as William Jennings Bryan and supported by the likes of H L Mencken and Clarence Darrow, included passages that made it crystal clear that it stood on the same side as the mid-century Germans when it came to eugenics. Any American of good conscience should want such books removed from classrooms and the teachers who push them on students, to be prosecuted.
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The "experts" are still driven mad, because all of their theorizing and speculating about a phenomenon will not give them as much knowledge about that phenomenon as some random person who has been standing next to it and living with it for all their lives.
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