So, James, back in July, I read an interesting article on Forbes.com, and it was an

editor's pick, so it must have been good. And the title of the article was, you must not do your

own research when it comes to science.

And I kind of had a chuckle that struck me right away. And of course, the gist of the article was,

well, look, all of us normal people, we have jobs, we got families, wives, responsibilities.

We couldn't possibly have enough time to research the important issues, especially concerning medicine.

And so therefore you need to defer to the experts.

After all, I'm not an epidemiologist.

So, okay, sounds reasonable.

Can you find any flaws in that logic?

I can find a few, and I will encourage people at this point to go watch the video that I did on

this subject called Don't Do Your Own Research Propaganda Watch, where for my regular Propaganda Watch

series, I delved into this article and not to perform a

performative contradiction here until you don't look at his article, because of course,

I think you should. You should research. You should study things for yourself. So I have a

link in the show notes for that video, not to Forbes, which clearly wants the clickbait, rage,

click, hey, what's he talking about click? They get the advertising dollars. I have a link to

archive.a.is, where it does not go to their servers, they do not get the money for it. So I

would suggest people check that link. But do read the article and look at the argument that is

being made, which, as you say, at the surface level, sounds reasonable enough,

but as soon as you start to dig into the details,

becomes, shall we say, problematic to use the lingo of the moment.

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