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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 can creep into their public statements.

Now here's the amazing part. It's not that you didn't know that. Yeah, raise your hand if you didn't know that. We all knew it. Here's the weird part. Everybody knew it, but for some reason we had agreed to act like we didn't. Right? Wouldn't you say that? Let's say five years ago that everybody would know that experts can be biased. Everybody knew that. 100 percent of people know that experts can be biased. But we had all agreed, sort of as a silent, unspoken agreement in society, that we would act as if it weren't true. Why? Why was there ever a reason to act as if the thing we all knew was true, to act as if it's not? Why did we do that? It never made sense. And Trump, I would say, fixed that. He fixed that. It's probably his greatest accomplishment. We'll never get credit for it. You know the history books will not write that Donald Trump taught us to stop blindly trusting experts who were lying to us. But he did that. He did that, right? I mean, you know, it was a ripple effect that started with him. So many of us were involved with it. I would say I'm part of that process as well as many people are. But it was him. I mean I wouldn't have been doing it if he hadn't started it. It was him. And it's one of the most useful things that's ever happened in, wait for it, the history of civilization. That's right. This mental shift that Trump did for us, stopping our trust in experts, blind trust. Right? You still need some trust in experts. You don't want to get rid of all of it, because sometimes you know you can be a little more comfortable with them. But I would say that Trump has made the biggest psychological improvement in the human species' thinking, maybe one of the greatest shifts in all of human history. And you didn't really notice it because there was so much noise going on. We were just arguing about stuff, and we were sort of arguing about experts, and sure enough experts were wrong, and sure enough the news was wrong, and that's more hoaxes than real. And you didn't really realize the transition as it was happening. But we're here. You know it now. And you know it wouldn't have happened without Trump, right?

I'd like to see if people agree with that part of my opinion, that Trump was the cause that really launched that. All just, I'm just going to read some opinions here as they go by. The great disillusionment. Somebody's calling it. I see some people agreeing. Yes, yes, yes, 100 percent. Blah blah blah. I see one now from Dale, and Dale, somebody named Dale says no, it's really no. I see. All right, yeah, it looks like most of you agree with that statement.

All right, and then lastly, because it's Memorial Day and because there are some stories that are important but should not be reported with vigor, and here's one of them. There was another mass shooting. I'm not even going to tell you the state. I mean if you want to look into it you can Google it, but I'm not going to tell you how many people died. I'm not going to tell you where it was. I'm not going to tell you what state it was in. I'm not going to tell you what weapons were used. I'm not going to tell you a hero stopped it if they did. I don't know. I just, I'm not going to talk about this anymore because every time you do it just gives attention to the shooters, and there's nothing good that can come from that.

Now I'm not ignoring it. If you're saying to me, Scott, it's a giant problem and you're ignoring it. No, no, that's not happening. I'm not ignoring the problem. I'm just not making it worse. So by not talking about it I'm helping to fix the problem. So by ignoring it I'm trying to be part of the productive part of the world that's putting it back in its place and not persuading people that it's a good idea to get some fame. We saw with, I think it was the Parkland shooter, there are some videos that came out that showed that he really wanted the fame. He did it for the fame. Now what gave him that idea? Well, the fact that it's widely reported and talked about. If you didn't widely report it and talk about it, he would have had a different idea. Maybe less dangerous. I don't know.

So let's not lose how important these shootings are, but let's not fetishize them. Let's not make them something that somebody wants to participate in. If you do, you should be lost in obscurity, and I'll help you.

Yeah, you know I worry about these, you hear these cases where everybody was warned about the shooter. You know the police had already talked to him. The FBI was warned. I don't know if you can make that criticism really because it's always out of context. The context is that the police and the FBI probably get so many warnings that they couldn't possibly trea