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. And so here's some good news. Michael Shellenberger is taking on fentanyl addiction and homelessness in California primarily. And let me tell you why that's good news. First of all, if you don't know Michael Shellenberger, you should follow him on Twitter. That's the first thing you should do, if for no other reason than to boost his voice. Because what makes him different from almost everybody…
← Previous segment →e it accidental or intentional, and if you add those together, and I think you could, I mean there's a reasonable way to do that, you're approaching World War II numbers now. World War II is the biggest war loss of life for Americans. But COVID looks, if you added COVID and fentanyl together, it looks like it might pass it eventually. Now it will take several years, but the fentanyl war together with the COVID war will be the biggest war casualties that America has ever suffered. And all of it at the hands of China, who we still do business with and we still negotiate with them. We treat them like, oh hey, how you doing China? Let's have a meeting. Amazing. It's amazing that we can walk around in that fog.
One of the best things that's come out of the last few years, and I credit Trump for this, and I also predicted it in 2016. I told you Trump would change everything about how we view reality. And the biggest part of that I think is discrediting the news, rightfully, and discrediting experts, again rightfully. Trump has been the leading voice in saying that the experts are not to be trusted and that the news is not to be trusted. And here we are. We don't trust them. Did Trump succeed? Yeah, he did. He totally succeeded. He taught us not to trust our experts just automatically.
You still have to trust experts if you don't have a better idea. There's no other option. Maybe all the experts agree and they've agreed on it for years. Maybe there are lots of studies. So there's some things you can do that will give you some comfort with expert advice. But believing the experts somewhat automatically is stupid. It's just stupid. You should try to wean yourself off of that h
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abit. There's an article in the Washington Post that tells you the trend by Alison Young, and she says, quote, "It seems that expert consensus was somewhat illusory." Now she's talking about the lab leak hypothesis with COVID. The expert consensus was somewhat illusory. And it would have been well to remember that like the rest of us, scientists are prone to groupthink and non-scientific concerns…
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