Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Journalism is filled with people making comments about other people who have far more expertise.

Again, any attack on Rogan is cheap unless it focuses solely on his words.

 

Why do you have a belief that "formal education" is qualifying?

And are you going to be the person who decides how much formal education is acceptable for a person to express his beliefs?

 

If millions of people are hanging on his every word, he damned well better understand his subject matter. He can’t do that with a week at UMass-Boston.
Why do people listen when he talks? Who died and made him EF Hutton?

 

Another thing. People are very confident with criticizing people with the highest level of academic and professional achievement. But, turn around, a guy who only spent a few weeks in a commuter school is unworthy of having an opinion.

 

If the opinion is vaccines are ineffective and dangerous that opinion does not belong in the public square.
There’s nothing to debate here. The doctor is right. Rogan and RFK Jr. are wrong.

 

The reason that Rogan is getting hit over this is that he and Elon (and RFK, Jr) ganged up on a scientist who simply knows one helluva lot more about the subject than they ever will. You wouldn't take your car to a long time mechanic and tell him how to fix it unless you damn well knew you were right, and even then you'd probably do well to let him diagnose and fix it, because he knows a helluva lot more about what he's doing than you do.

Joe Rogan, Elon Musk challenge scientist to debate Robert Kennedy Jr. on vaccines, setting off firestorm

And add that this is the result of that nonsense.

Vaccine scientist says anti-vaxxers ‘stalked’ him after Joe Rogan’s challenge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/19/joe-rogan-hotez-rfk-vaccine-debate/

 

Rogan’s fans strike me as the very level-headed types who’d never dox/stalk someone.

 

Which pretty much disqualifies our past two presidents.

 

Okay, so what is the qualification for having an opinion? Simply saying a guy didn't go to college isn't it. People who didn't even study for the LSAT think their opinion on a Supreme Court decision is valid, but then attack someone like Rogan.

I'm not defending his opinions. I'm pushing back from the premise of some his critics.

 

So we all agree: It’s not the President’s job to know everything. His job - and the job of any chief executive - is to put experts in position of authority, weigh their advice and facilitate well-reasoned decision making (understanding that sometimes that advice and those decisions will be wrong).

For all his many faults, Trump’s biggest flaw might be exactly that. He thought the Presidency means being the smartest guy in the room at all times, and coming up with big ideas.

That’s how we got those Trump brainstorming sessions disguised as COVID pressers.

 

I’m not talking about being qualified to have an opinion. I’m talking about being qualified to be an opinion leader.

 

Slight disagreement. Trump is convinced that he's the smartest guy in virtually every room. If he has any doubt, after a day or two to consider, he'll become convinced he was right after all. That's who he is. No matter how good your advice is, if it isn't what he wants to do, he'll find an expert who thinks that what Trump wants to do is the smart play and agree with that guy.