What's worse than ignorance?

Believing something to be true when it is actually false.

It is almost a truism to say that the opposite of ignorance today is journalism. Unfailingly pursuing an unabashedly false narrative seems to be the course of the day with the ethics of journalism apparently spiked along with the rest if tehstories and the truth that needs telling.

Worse, journalists pretend to buttress their narratives with confirmatory bias claims by self-identified (or journalist promoted) 'experts' or 'scientists.' In some cases, the person cited may not have any credentials, any credibility or any conscience, but quote them in a front-page article sun the New York Times and all of these problematic claims become 'facts' that build threads into the narrative preferred by editors and journalists.

I heard the fatuous Dr Fauci opining that vaccinated people (over 200 million of them in the United States, about two thirds of all citizens) need to continue to wear masks because -- and I believe I heard this correctly -- "There is no evidence that a vaccinated person can not pass on the virus." Not just a double negative, it is also wholly unscientific. For instance, we do have evidence that children have died from complications from lengthy wearing of masks. Fauci's position seems to be that we don't have evidence that masks do not work, although there are numerous studies that show that masks do not work.

Given a choice between ignorance and false beliefs, I'll take ignorance every time. Meanwhile, the media and political elite continue a campaign of disinformation, noted for its role by the late CIA director, William Casey.

"Settled science" tells us that life begins at conception, that gender is a biological concept, not a social construct. The unsettling part of the 'settled science' of 'climate change' is just how unsettled the science is. While change in climate over time -- millions of years -- has been certainly confirmed and settled, there is no settled science as to the cause of the changes, the role of humans in the changes, the magnitude of the change, the capacity of human intervention to alter the change in humans' favor, the efficacy or sustainability of the so-called 'green' or 'renewable' energy sources, the role of sunspots in temperature changes on earth, the reliability of temperature gauges over hundreds of years across thousands of gauges, the cause, effect or non-significance of carbon in climate change (i.e., does carbon create warmth or does warmth create carbon?), or the net impact of the 'green revolution,' which pertains to the rapid increase in vegetation and crop yields, and not to green 'technology.

Humans and vegetation have an ideal, symbiotic relationship. Humans consume oxygen and produce carbon dioxide. Plants consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. Thomas Malthus' prediction of human population outstripping food production turned out to be completely wrong. Increase in arable lands, crop yields, and newly green land have made Malthus's claims laughable. Today, obesity is a much greater global health problem than is malnutrition. That is, until pandemic political policies crippled food distribution to -- per United Nations projections -- 135 million people who in the current and coming year are likely to fall back into extreme poverty. And as bad as this number is, it needs to be compared to the likelihood that without this misguided, inhumane, political policies, not only would these people NOT fallen into poverty, perhaps 100 million people would have climbed out of absolute poverty. If there was ever a policy to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, it would be the lockdowns and other tyrannical policies being employed today, ignorant to the tens of millions of those who will survive the pandemic and likely not survive the pandemic policies.

I've discussed these issues previously, here, and citing Tony Heller here, here, here, and here. Or examples of sophistry from the New York Times. Or the startling comparisons between the media narratives on climate change and Covid-19. And the ongoing misrepresentation of death counts attributed to Covid-19 alone, here and here.

I find no joy in reporting this, or even in thinking about these crimes against humanity by the arrogant, obliviously self-centered elite. The joy lies in the belief that the American people will wake up to this nonsense in time to correct the damage. The United States is an innovative, flexible, diverse and compassionate country, unlike any other society in the history of the world. Flaws? Of course. Yet millions more desire to move here and actually move here (illegally), while few want to get out.