Put Some Harvard SmartCream
on That
By James Lewis
AmericanThinker.com
The Obama administration takes great pride in
Dr. Steven Chu, the Secretary of Energy, because Dr. Chu has a
Nobel Prize.
In physics, too, which is a real science that has something to do with
energy. Sort of. And he's Chinese, one of the oppressed people of color,
and he's an immigrant whose papers are in order.
That's 3.5 gold stars
in ObamaWorld.
Chu's research showed how to push around individual atoms with laser
beams. Amazing stuff. But Nobel winners are not necessarily good at
fixing oil leaks, as we have seen.
I
don't know if Dr. Chu plays the fiddle like Fibonacci, or if he is a
trained ballet dancer like Rahm Emanuel, or if he does brain surgery
on the side. Whatever Dr. Chu's many talents may be, he doesn't know
how to solve that oil leak.
When
Saddam Hussein blew up hundreds of oil wells in Kuwait in 1992,
George Bush #41 sent in Red Adair from Texas. Kuwait's burning oil
wells got fixed. The media lost a big story, and the Left, which was
all ready to accuse Bush # 41 of a planetary crime for making Saddam
blow up all those oil wells, lost a big agitprop opportunity. They
had to wait for Bush # 43 to work off their spleen.
The weirdness is that during the months of oil gushing from the BP
leak, Obama and his spokesnoid Robert Gibbs kept reminding the world
that Dr. Chu has a Nobel Prize. That plus five bucks will buy you a
Starbucks French Roast on the Gulf Coast, right where you can watch
the sunset reflecting off the oil slick. It's really pretty, and as
some Obamanoid was saying the other day, if Louisiasans were smart,
they would turn it into a tourist attraction. Fortunately, it looks
like the oil leak has been plugged, and all that oil will be
metabolized by the ocean in due course.
But the Leftist superstition about Harvard SmartCream will keep
haunting us for years. The reason is that no matter what the
emergency may be, the instinct of this White House is to apply the
same panacea. Put some SmartCream on that, and it'll be fixed. Or at
least it will look as if we are Doing Something.
Obama's adoring fans seem to share the superstitious belief that
intelligence is a kind of oil slick that you just discover in places
like Harvard and Yale. Take a problem, any problem -- global
warming, the U.S. economy, race, and gender-baiting -- and smear it
liberally with SmartCream from Larry Summers or Elena Kagan -- and
behold! The answer pops out, just like that. It's amazing. For you,
it's only $ 9.95, 'cause I like your face. Can't you see Obama
selling that line on an informercial with his great photogenic
smile?
This superstition about a universal panacea of high intelligence
seems to be really widespread on the Left. Jozef Stalin used to
lecture academic audiences on the topic of linguistics, even before
Noam Chomsky transformed the base metal of syntax into the gold of
leftist opportunism. Why does the world listen to Chomsky's radical
politics? Because he is reputed to be a great linguist. It doesn't
work for me, but apparently for millions of people it looks like
logic.
This
is so much like Anton Mesmer (the first "mesmerist") back in 1770
or so, who used to cure his medical patients by sweeping a long
magnetic iron rod over their bodies. Poor people stood in line for a
chance to sit around a magnetized tub of water with iron handles
sticking out, just like socialized medicine. It all worked like a
charm, because everybody knew that animal magnetism spread its
healing rays wherever it touched your body.
Animal magnetism worked fine for Anton Mesmer in 1770. It still
works, along with crystal therapy and pyramids for keeping your
razor blades sharp. Ask just about anybody in Berkeley, California.
Don't knock the great con artists of history, because the media
world is still doing the same thing today. What do you think the
global warming scam is about? It is a mass hysteria stirred up by
the media to make money without having to actually work, or to learn
anything -- along with almost universal ignorance and superstition,
also spread by the media and the education establishment -- plus
deep corruption in Big Money Science.
In the U.K., the Labour Government of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
practically had group hugs imagining how much the global warming
rainbow would pay off -- they were officially demanding trillions of
dollars -- so they pushed it and pushed it for decades using their
poodle scientists at Hadley CRU, and their lapdog droids like the
BBC and the Guardian.
In fact, the Guardian still believes in global warming today, but
then they believed Stalin's lies for thirty years, followed by Mao
and Pol Pot, and today, Gorbachev. For all I know, they still
believe in Stalin's phony agronomist,
Trofim Lysenko,
who made all the real scientists in the Soviet Union applaud his
scientific fantasy life on pain of exile in Siberia. Or a bullet to
the head -- take your pick.
We are much too civilized to threaten scientists with execution or
exile to Alaska, where they might run into the Palins and go native.
We just give them millions of dollars if they sing along with the
Party Line. And it works! They chime right in, and sometimes they
even do a little dance.
That's how you earn credibility, buddy, and
don't you forget it.
The Left is infinitely gullible, but they also spread gullibility in
the schools. In the Clinton years, Al Gore had a hand in appointing
NASA's witch doctor, James Hansen, the guy who wants warming
skeptics to be thrown in jail "for crimes against humanity and
nature." That just shows you world-caliber science at work. Where's
Hansen's Nobel Prize? Why should Algore get one, and Barry the 0,
but not James Hansen, who makes up all the climate videogames?
When it all fell apart in Copenhagen last year, Tony Blair showed up
on TV telling us with his million-dollar smile that it didn't matter
if global warming was true or not. There's your public confession of
guilt, when politicians tell you that it's still a global emergency
and yes, they still need astronomical new taxes from five billion
people even if it doesn't happen to be true.
Hold onto your wallet. Right now Tony is working for Muammar
Khadaffi of Lybia, 'cause that's where the money is.
The media fall for this Dr. Science gag because they never read
anything about real science. They're much too busy thinking up
tomorrow's phony headlines. But even if they were literate they
still would go on the belief that their audiences are mostly
suckers. The mantra that "Obama is soooo smart" is supposed to shut
them up and keep 'em voting Democrat. No proof is ever needed.
I'm not saying the media are wrong about their audiences. It works,
as you can see right in front of your eyes. It's just that the
audiences are complicit in the con job. The TV-watchers and
newspaper-readers have dumbed themselves down. Every day they engage
in willing suspension of disbelief, like kids listening to Santa
Claus or good Soviet citizens in the Evil Empire.
In fact, Obama does keep telling them he is Santa Claus, and all his
free goodies come out of that stash he keeps in the White House. The
same liberals who fall for all other con jobs keep the Demagogues in
power -- media scams like imaginary energy shortages, No Nukes
campaigns, clean government in Detroit and Chicago, feminist
malarkey, ObamaCare, and any conceivable qualifications Elena Kagan
might have for the Supreme Court.
Ignorance can be cured with education; but
self-imposed ignorance has no cure. It just rots your brain
until you die from
Donald Berwick Disease.
If you don't know what Donald Berwick Disease is, you will -- you
will, very soon.
I
know highly educated folk who are so stuck at age 22 that they will
never reach adulthood. You can find them all over the campuses,
where scruffy hippies gather in little cafés to tell each other
lies.
A
month ago, forty-two members of the British Royal Society finally
worked up enough integrity to protest the abject mendacity of Global
Frauding. The Royal Society then withdrew its public support for the
scam. Scientific societies around the world have fallen for it,
either because they took somebody's word for it (and they know that
scientists never tell a lie), or because they were bought off. But
the Royal Society -- founded by Isaac Newton -- sacrificed four
centuries of integrity for one big payoff. And now they've lost it.
It couldn't happen to a more deserving crowd.
The Brits pioneered global warming. Before GW there was Mad Cow, a
huge public health fraud that was based on unsupported computer
modeling in the United Kingdom -- which should sound familiar. If
you assume that prion infections like Mad Cow spread on an
accelerating curve, just like the infamous global warming hockey
stick, you can show that everybody is going to die tomorrow, or next
week at the latest, based on a perfectly good math model that just
happens to be totally wrong. It is the worst of GIGO disease, really
primitive thinking, but it's good enough to swing a ton of money for
the people who promoted it.
In the upshot, the formerly sane nation of Britain went Banana
Republic over Mad Cow Disease, as propagated by the intellectual
giants of Fleet Street. That's where the newspapers used to be
located, right near the busiest pubs in the world. Take a deep
breath in Fleet Street and you're drunk. News reporting used to be
the professional disease of British alcoholics. Think of Chris
Hitchens and you get the idea.
In any case, Mad Cow guaranteed a decade of scare headlines for the
denizens of Fleet Street so they didn't even have to work. A whole
generation of journos died of the DTs before somebody found out that
no actual people were getting Mad Cow disease, and indeed, that
mighty few cows were getting it, either.
Basically, they destroyed millions of cattle on the raw assumption
that they might get sick someday. It was a purely imaginary
epidemic; most mass hysterias are. If you kill the cattle before
they get the disease, you can never find out if your math model was
wrong. If you demand your trillions of bucks before global warming
ever happens, there's no way to prove you are wrong. Right now, the
scammers are recovering all their old power and prestige, because
the last ten years of actual cooling is just covering up the trend
toward the world coming to an end. They say. And by gum, they've got
the computer models to prove it! They still want all that money, and
they are still getting it. Phil Jones and Michael Mann haven't been
fired, or even embarrassed in public. They still have their jobs,
and they're looking forward to running another pricey scam sometime
soon.
Across the Channel from London, the French never fell for Mad Cow,
so millions of happy eaters kept chomping down on delicious sheep
brains in wonderful wine sauces and finally died of gourmet ecstasy.
The French got their meat cheap from British farmers who were forced
to kill their cattle, or maybe to sell them for a few euros before
the animal inspectors turned up. At the end, a total of about a
hundred people were said to have died from Mad Cow over a dozen
years, which is statistically right around zero. Given the integrity
of the folks who spread the scam, I would not be surprised to find
out that Mad Cow Disease record-keeping was strangely intermittent,
amazingly like the CRU Hadley Climate records, the Russian
meterology bureau, NASA, and NOAA. None of those scientific Holy of
Holies seem to have kept their data, and they're not showing us
their computer programs.
During Mad Cow days, the socialist Labour Government paid British
farmers to destroy their cattle. The British taxpayers were
subsidizing French cuisine, and the chefs were laughing all the way
to their mistresses' mattresses, where they traditionally keep their
money. Those crazy Brits!
Britain used to do world-class science, but socialism corrupts
everything, because everything becomes politicized. Previous
generations of scientists would be ashamed of the level of
corruption in Britain, but these characters just keep coming. Today,
socialist politicians have conquered science in Europe, as in
Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. The EU itself has never passed
a financial audit in its fourteen years of existence, and it doesn't
care to pass the next one. Nobody in the world can make them. They
are the bosses, just as surely as the Soviet apparatchiks. So they
don't bother with audits. It's like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
Who's going to make them?
Historically, corrupt science kills people. It did so with AIDS
(which the media lied about for years as a heterosexual disease) and
with Saint Rachel Carson depriving Africa of DDT insecticide,
thereby hurting tens of millions of African children but doing a lot
of good for the tsetse fly. Then there is the abject Western
surrender to street drugs, with the media and politicians constantly
talking about getting it all legalized, in spite of the victims who
show up at emergency rooms every day around the country --
especially teenagers and minorities, as it turns out. When lies are
propagated as truths, and science colludes with the lies, people get
hurt.
It's sad, but on the other hand, scientific corruption is a
self-imposed disease. Scientists have an intellectual and moral duty
to think skeptically and to demand evidence. When they fail to meet
their most basic obligations over many years, that is
not an accident.
Why
was there only a small coterie of heroic global warming skeptics who
demanded to see the original data? In science, that should be a
standard practice -- but now that scientific institutions, including
universities, have been proven to be much less trustworthy than your
local drugstore, it's mighty strange that there is no movement afoot
for all climate data to be put on the web, as a routine precaution
against fraud and cherry-picking. Where's the outrage? It's exactly
where it was during the Clinton years in D.C. In a Leftist Political
Machine, public outrage never gets a hearing.
That
kind of scientific ignorance is willful. It is a moral disease, not
a mistake. Scientific institutions could purge their crooks any day
they want. But they don't do that -- and that leaves us to draw our
own conclusions, doesn't it?
Dr. Chu is not so unusual in a world of global warmists and Mad Cow
chasers. I don't know the man, and I can't read his mind, but either
he is not as smart as he's cracked up to be, or...