[DocSavage87]

I don’t know Scott Atlas from Adam’’s off ox.  But I am struck by how perfectly this discussion fits into one of Jonathan Haidt’s “three great untruths”, this one being “Us vs Them (Life is a battle between good people and evil people”. ) It is not enough to disagree, we must prove our moral righteousness by always questioning the “other sides”  motives and “morality.”  Adams therefore is not just “wrong”. He’s a “tool”. Part of a plot to lead us to dictatorship.

I am struck how people so readily take a holier-than-thou attitude, never mentioning the actual evidence of how a person behaved and how badly he botched his predictions before painting other people as hysterical, unreasoned mobs.  If you don't know Scott Atlas at all, why are you even commenting on how others feel about him.  If you did see him hawking his perspective well before we even had decent data -- about how this was all an overreaction and continuing to say the same all through this pandemic, then maybe you should comment on that.  That's why he's a tool.  He's never changed his opinions, despite all evidence to the contrary, and that's why he was selected to be part of the task force despite his lack of expertise in either epidemiology or infectious diseases.

[DocSavage87]

I don’t know Scott Atlas from Adam’’s off ox.  But I am struck by how perfectly this discussion fits into one of Jonathan Haidt’s “three great untruths”, this one being “Us vs Them (Life is a battle between good people and evil people”. ) It is not enough to disagree, we must prove our moral righteousness by always questioning the “other sides”  motives and “morality.”  Adams therefore is not just “wrong”. He’s a “tool”. Part of a plot to lead us to dictatorship.

I am struck how people so readily take a holier-than-thou attitude, never mentioning the actual evidence of how a person behaved and how badly he botched his predictions before painting other people as hysterical, unreasoned mobs.  If you don't know Scott Atlas at all, why are you even commenting on how others feel about him.  If you did see him hawking his perspective well before we even had decent data -- about how this was all an overreaction and continuing to say the same all through this pandemic, then maybe you should comment on that.  That's why he's a tool.  He's never changed his opinions, despite all evidence to the contrary, and that's why he was selected to be part of the task force despite his lack of expertise in either epidemiology or infectious diseases.