Unfortunately, this post has become a necessity. I don’t enjoy doing this to people who continue to be in many cases widely regarded as heroes. However, at the same time, I’m not going to sit back and let people who should know better continue to MISINTERPRET the history of -and quotes said by key leaders from- our old “AIDS” dissident movement!
I don't have the requisite expertise to understand either Mullis nor his detractors, and I doubt that more than 1% of the world's population has it either. What can we do in the absence of an ability to understand an important issue like this? We have to find experts we trust to rely upon (even if only tentatively), and our trust has to be based on something other than that expertise, since we are not qualified to be able to ascertain such expertise by itself. That's a common dilemma for many important sociopolitical issues (and for scientific issues that impinge upon sociopolitical considerations). I'm not sure how to solve that dilemma, but we Non-Experts may often have to go by our intuition and by reason & common sense in assessing the comportment of various Experts who clamor for the people's attention on matters they evidently feel it's important to persuade the public. It's rarely useful when one of the clamoring Experts (and/or their hangers-on) insist that "no you don't need any expertise, it's easy to understand!" or "no no no! it's clear that WE have the right answer and they don't! Can't you see? What's wrong with you???" et fucking cetera.
Not sure what your point is here, or what you were expecting with Mullis. He has made some smart comments in the past, especially regarding Fauci. Otherwise he was still part of the main "science" establishment.
I wrote the following comments in my own post on MY substack. The title I've chosen for my post is "The Mullis Mirage" (link here: https://longtimedissident.substack.com/p/the-mullis-mirage ).
Here is what I wrote:
Unfortunately, this post has become a necessity. I don’t enjoy doing this to people who continue to be in many cases widely regarded as heroes. However, at the same time, I’m not going to sit back and let people who should know better continue to MISINTERPRET the history of -and quotes said by key leaders from- our old “AIDS” dissident movement!
I don't have the requisite expertise to understand either Mullis nor his detractors, and I doubt that more than 1% of the world's population has it either. What can we do in the absence of an ability to understand an important issue like this? We have to find experts we trust to rely upon (even if only tentatively), and our trust has to be based on something other than that expertise, since we are not qualified to be able to ascertain such expertise by itself. That's a common dilemma for many important sociopolitical issues (and for scientific issues that impinge upon sociopolitical considerations). I'm not sure how to solve that dilemma, but we Non-Experts may often have to go by our intuition and by reason & common sense in assessing the comportment of various Experts who clamor for the people's attention on matters they evidently feel it's important to persuade the public. It's rarely useful when one of the clamoring Experts (and/or their hangers-on) insist that "no you don't need any expertise, it's easy to understand!" or "no no no! it's clear that WE have the right answer and they don't! Can't you see? What's wrong with you???" et fucking cetera.
Not sure what your point is here, or what you were expecting with Mullis. He has made some smart comments in the past, especially regarding Fauci. Otherwise he was still part of the main "science" establishment.