Know-Nothing Burgers Are Ruining Our Lives

Yes, that’s what I call them, those who force-feed us their stupidity from above – the so-called intelligentsia, left, right or center, the ones who hold academic appointments at the most prestigious universities, colleges, academies, ‘think tanks’, global organizations with names that include ‘health’ and ‘democracy’, those who have received high accolades from establishment science, those who have been Rhodes Scholars or Fullbright Fellows – all of the reigning intellectual elite who have foisted upon the global population the Big Covidian Lie.

They are reputed to know a great deal of something in their specialized fields, but absolutely nothing when it comes to actual science and actual medical treatments and actual vaccines and real climate and weather and the oh-so-painstakingly obvious Agenda of the Few to enslave the Many.

I’ll give you two chilling examples.

The renowned Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and other books on evolutionary biology, and author too of The God Delusion, was recently interviewed by Unherd’s Freddie Sayers, who asked Dawkins whether he thought that the Covid Era represented a moment of scientific glory or ‘something that was a little bit problematic’. Dawkins responded, citing the development of vaccines with unprecedented speed, that it was ‘magnificent, and is a tribute to science and was a glory of science’. When Sayers, to his credit, countered and pressed him about the vaccines, about how they were overpromised, about how they failed to prevent transmission as they were initially billed, and how they were pushed via mandates and near-mandates, Dawkins replied that ‘it was difficult for people entrusted with authority to give advice’. Sayers is quite clearly surprised to hear this from the man who champions robust debate and the admission of scientific error, and Dawkins goes on to express his sympathy for the people in charge who had to make quick decisions. Sayers continues to press and displays one of Dawkins’ Tweets wherein he avers that covid vaccine-refusal endangers others, and then states unequivocally that those who do not take the measles vaccine are indeed a public peril. About lockdowns Dawkins claims not to have a position, although he admits that in the roil of the covidian moment mistakes may have been made.

It is well-worth seven minutes of your time to listen to the excerpt, purely as an example of how a distinguished, celebrated and highly-honored scientist can display such an utter ignorance of basic medical concepts and medical treatment and pandemic-preparedness. Surely he must have known that there was no real science behind the imposition of lockdowns, ‘social’ distancing, masks or a rush to a vaccine that had not and could not have had a test of time while promising treatments were being suppressed or forbidden?

My second example is from a video posted by The Institute of Art and Ideas, which includes a panel consisting of Denis Noble, Nessa Carey and Guy Brown, all renowned biologists. It is entitled ‘The Medicine Myth’ and I watched with great interest as I have come to appreciate Professor Noble’s books on evolutionary biology. As I watched, however, Professor Carey, who is the International Director of PraxisUnico and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, and who sported a jumper with the word ‘GEEK’ across her chest and identified herself as a member of ‘team science’, took less than a minute to praise childhood vaccinations for halting early childhood death, and also statins. She did give credit to soap, however, I am happy to report, but as I followed the rest of her discourse on medicine, aging and societal health, I was left with the same kind of chill I feel when the Gates Foundation announces a new initiative.

My intention is not to detract from either Dawkins’ or Carey’s achievements in the fields of their specialties, but to draw attention to my proposition that such achievements do not translate into authority in other domains, and that scientists, like other people, are human and can be egregiously ignorant, obtuse and even dangerous when empowered.

We have been smothered by references and appeals to ‘science’ and ‘the science’ and the greatness of science in all things covid, Mr. Fauci being a prime example, and yet here we find ourselves face to face with eminent scientists whose presumed intelligence should at the very least have led them to question the Pharma-driven employment of vaccinations in general and the promulgation of statins, medications which I for one would avoid as I would avoid poison.

The word ‘science’ is derived etymologically from a root meaning to cut, divide, split, separate – and this points to the scientific method of isolating variables so as to divine specific causality. Yet to practice science does not necessarily mean ‘to know’, since knowledge requires a synthesis that transcends the function of individual agents. This is, in fact, why I have been much taken by Denis Noble’s The Music of Life, and am inclined to regard less highly the reductionism of Dawkins’ selfish genes (can genes have personality traits, I ask?).

‘Intelligence’ is derived from the Latin ‘inter’ and ‘legere’, meaning to be able to pick out, choose, read, gather, and the like, implying a capability for discernment and apprehension. Not all highly educated, highly degreed or highly positioned scientific figures are intelligent, as covid, the greatest litmus test of all, easily demonstrates.

I can tell you of at least half a dozen very highly educated people I personally know who have been jabbed and boostered to the hilt and who, when themselves the victims of a jab-related adverse reaction, or who have known an intimate who has been injured even to death, will dare not ask the simplest causal question. These same people unhesitatingly accepted the imprisonment of the healthy, distancing, useless and unhealthy masks, and went along with the notion that covid itself was untreatable save by quarantine and vaccination.

There is another word that comes to mind, deriving from a root that means being stunned or struck, beaten into a ‘stupor’ – but I prefer to call these elevated personnel sitting atop the academic pyramid who have made our lives so miserable as ‘know-nothing burgers’. They literally knew nothing when knowing something really counted. These are the very same people who no doubt will push to eliminate cattle in their frenzy to battle ‘climate change’, being happy to deprive real people of real meat and substance.

I say, let them eat their cake and, more important, let them keep their dangerous nothingness to themselves. In fact, I’d advise them to take a leaf out of a genuine scientist’s book, one Richard Feynman, who said: ‘I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned’.

Emanuel E. Garcia, M.D.

June 2023