Credentialed public health "experts" are just like martial arts styles, fakes and frauds that cannot face real questions that challenge base assumptions.
This was a good read, I highly recommend it.
Some great quotes:
it took team reality 3 months to go from “never looked at this before” to basic parity with public health and in 3 more, it had overrun the discipline.
And later:
the “experts” have had a REALLY bad 2 years. their credentials and lazy appeals to authority did not stand up to the arena. and they stopped wanting to talk to us at all and adopted epithets like “denier” and stances like “the science is settled.”
Where have we seen that language used before?
Oh yea, climate science. Funny, isn't it, how the credentialed always do the same thing when the amateurs pull their fancy pants down to their ankles?
There’s a lot of “social science” fields that are currently propped up by shitty computer modeling, public health is one of those fields. There was a “study” I posted here pre Covid about “racial bias” and pain meds, the study was just a survey where people who were given the same dosage across the board said they “didn’t feel the pain treatment was adequate” and the survey itself was a nightmare because it was Medicaid/medicare patients only… public health as a field is basically politburo where the job is to find whatever the money/agenda says to find. In almost every single encounter with lesser sciences I’ve had it is always very agenda driven, even most medical professions are so subverted that diagnostic medicine is going to have to be ai driven in the near future due to the complete lack of competence.
One of my favorite mask-off moments was when AOC told Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes that “There's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.” This is how the left works: their authority is moral authority. Even if they don't have their facts right, they are right because they have the moral high-ground.
Everyone says that facts don't care about your feelings, but for leftists, feelings don't care about your facts. I feel that I am in the right, therefore I am in the right. My sense of moral superiority trumps reality.
Worse. They can switch between "morally right", "it is the law" and whatever you want to rationalize their shit faster than clock speed of whatever device you are viewing this comment on. btw, I swear like 20 years ago the left was always about the "more profitable", "better quality of life" and such vs the "moral" right, which was supposed to be the reason we are not in paradise yet. But this could be the case in my place and not in USA. Whatever, it finished like above anyways.
oh my, $cience pRedditors must have been upset in their pedantry, right?
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Factual correctness is also necessary for moral correctness. To suggest otherwise is to justify lying, which is immoral.
It's a very Jewish mentality. They're the chosen ones, so anything they do is good.
They only think they do, and the hapless establishment right has let them get away with it unchallenged for more than 50 years. If you push back on it even a tiny bit they fall apart.
Experts is just a term for paid shill.
"I AM relativity!"
The great physicist Albert Fauci
If someone says this, they are not a scientist.
A poster put this in the comments. It's why the no doxxing attitude is stupid as each case is different.
Theres some good lines in the article, but why in the hell is he not capitalizing the first letter in his sentences? Makes him look extremely retarded. Even assuming it is intentional, which it probably is, it is still retarded.
If he’s trying to convince anyone of anything, it’s a very stupid stylistic choice.
It's supposed to have been written by a cat.
Damn. That WAS a brilliant read.
The same people producing these random numbers ignored their own warnings to get laid.
Hypothesise, test, retest, re-hypothesise, falsify; this is how science works "the science is settled";"scientific consensus" and other such phrases are bollocks, plain and simple
He's not wrong, but it's a lot of words to say "Gell-Mann amnesia."
He’s saying that the credentialed experts in most fields are actually retarded. That’s not the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
That was a really good article. It's from mid 2022 and it has held up, and been further supported since then.
This guy acts like he's being humble but the whole article just screams massive egotist and it's ruining any valid points that he might have had.
Ah now I understand the mentality and why his attitude is bothering me. He's one of those insufferable MMA douchebros you always see on the internet in any thread related to martial arts and can't help himself. I've practiced Shotokan for almost 20 years now. Anyone who brags about 'full contact' this way is largely full of shit and I'm sure most people who do actually train as well would agree.
There's also a massive difference between the McDojos and people who train under genuine instructers. I feel like a broken record at this point but the guy comes across as somebody who's probably gone up against a few brown/black belts from dojos that have absolutely shit standards or are run by scammers. I won't be like him, I won't but fuck me he ruined that article and whatever point he had lol.
All he needed to do was go 'Medical experts are like those scammy McDojos no one likes and are trying to fix debates so no one can counter them' but this guy has a major personality problem.
Is he wrong though? Are you claiming that someone who masters a set of moves from one style wouldn't be defeated by someone who knows all those same moves (perhaps with less finesse and precision) and also deploys a lot of other moves from other styles? Or are you arguing that he's wrong when he says MMA picked up all the useful techniques, and there's some hidden power that a real karate master has that MMA can never duplicate?
It still doesn't discredit his point about established authority in academia.
The secret to being 'realistically' good at any martial arts is pressure testing. (And how it's taught, but let's not get caught up in the weeds.)
MMA does alot of pressure testing, because it involves alot of young men wanting to beat the absolute shit out of one another and not caring about the long-term consequences of thier bodies.
Karate used to do alot of pressure testing, until the higher ups in various organizations realized that the ones doing said pressure testing were the high-ranking masters(because you have to be just a little bit off to get that high of a rank), that traumatic brain injuries are no fucking joke(seriously, watch some of the old Karate videos from the 70s and 80s - the only difference between them an MMA is one isn't half naked in a cage), and they'd really rather have all these Masters teaching and not beating the shit out of one another. Hence the development of point sparring in competition.
Point sparring is why Karate gets criticized so much, and to be fair, they do have a point. A local dojo of mine trains almost exclusively for competition, and a fair number of the tactics they use wouldn't... really work IRL.
Then again, traumatic brain injuries are not your friend, and even with point sparring, there's a reason why any competition is going to have a full doctor on hand.
I'm going to give MMA around 10 years at most before it gets dialed back alot when the current crop of competitors are basically hobbling around like old men due to all the damage they've done to thier bodies.
Also, there are a few MMA who's schooling was based on Karate. So. It's all how you apply it.
Yeah, it is a valid criticism, but it's that classic problem of like I've explained these guys think because they've fought a few fake black belts therefore all traditional styles suck. In my club for example we've recognised these weaknesses.
A big weakness that a lot of karate styles have is not that they can't take MMA fighting or anything, they simply don't train for it. It's all basic kumite and kata and they don't look at how to apply these techniques in such situations. This is why when karate people for example try to fight in MMA they often get overwhelmed because they don't know how to deal with grappling techniques and never bothered studying what other people do so it doesn't work. They and also the people fighting them then assume, oh it must be shit, therefore I'll ditch it and go do something else.
The joke is when you practice kata you get all the techniques you need, it's just a matter of knowing how to apply them which even a lot of black belts don't. In my club for example when we started looking at sparring more this way and how other styles would attack a lot of people would probably think we're not even doing 'Shotokan' except we are. It's just a matter of using the right techniques for the right situation.
Great example is a roundhouse punch, it's interesting how it doesn't get explored much in traditional styles but it's one of the most commonly used attacks in a lot of modern fighting. Asked about that, had my mind blown because you can pretty much block it the same way you do a roundhouse kick. All kinds of examples like that, we also learned properly how to deal with short range techniques and grab attempts etc. instantly changed how well we were sparring. I could go on about this stuff for pages but there's all kinds of examples like that out there, the MMA fanbois think they know it all and they're going to be in for a nasty shock if they finally come across traditional styles that start adapting for modern techniques.
Our instructors now are trying to get us to go more freestyle and get us adapt our kata techniques a lot more as well as use combinations a lot faster instead of basic. Tricky, but it helps you understand the style far better than just doing some back and forth tig play by comparison. I should stress, basics are still viable, but they'll only work under certain very specific conditions which is why you need a good breadth of techniques.
By the way, a lot of people don't realise this, but in kata when you learn it properly a lot of them actually have grapple and throw techniques hidden in them. This seems to get lost to time though which is why a lot of karate clubs seem to be about point scoring and only do competition sparring.
There's been a definite black belt inflation over time, not helped by the normal American habit of basically grabbing the black belt and saying 'I'm done' and then bragging about it years later.
It's always interesting to listen to my Sensei and all the older guys in the dojo make critiques of current trends of passing/failing for black belts.
There's also the problem that different karate styles have different rules for sparring. I forgot which style in particular is the one that doesn't allow for head-punches in sparring... but kicking them in the head is perfectly fine? And this is one of the primarily Japanese styles, keep in mind - either Shito-ryu or Goju-ryu, I forget which.
Bringing this back to OP's article, this is one of the issues with comparing various combat styles - they all have different rules of what's allowed. You throw someone unfamiliar with the rules into a ring that benefits their opponent and declare their style 'fake' when they don't instantly win? C'mon.
Niether it's all down to the practictioner, styles have nothing to do with it beyond whether the technique is practical against a resisting opponent or not. Everything beyond that is about training, skill and experience. McDojos and bad teaching is a whole other discussion to have that I could easily go into autistic amounts of detail with.
The issue I have with this guy is he clearly couldn't help himself and if you noticed I thought his initial comparison was valid but then he just went off the deep end doing what MMA fanbois do at times and going "Hurr durr all other styles except mine suck" and it's just such an ignorant attitude to have on either end of the argument and this guy clearly thinks he's found one of the magical combinations of techniques.
It's cringe when you see people from trad style claiming theirs is the best and it's cringe when you see MMA guys claiming their combination is the best. I do have to wander how long this guy has been training because I find it baffling that these guys who have been doing it or 2 - 3 years think they're amazing because they've beaten up a bunch of fake black belts. That sort of thing is just bullying the weak and feeling good about yourself.
There's this martial arts youtuber I watch every now and then called Ramsey Dewey and he's come at this from the MMA perspective. He made this point about this guy that was talking like this and he had been boasting about how he would go around challenging instructors to beat them up and show what a tough guy he is. It's funny how the MMA guys who do it professionally and really know what they're talking about are so chill yet MMA fanbois spew non-stop cringe all over the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjhA9cKEHLU
Found the video, this is what I was writing about.
This is one of the most gamma posts you’ve ever made, and that’s a high bar.
Any competent MMA fighter would trash your gay karate btw ; )
I know right, shotokan lmao. I would steamroll your 5’6 ass so hard if you tried to use that BS on me 😆
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