Thomas Harrington: ‘The Treason of the Experts’ and the Cudgels of ‘Disinformation’ and ‘Misinformation’
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What happens when large swathes of society stop trying to make sense of the world themselves and simply defer to “experts”? What happens when those “experts” actually have no moral grounding or sound scientific reasoning? And what happens when young people are trained to self-censor to the point that they don’t even notice that that’s what they’re doing?
In this episode, we sit down with Thomas Harrington, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute and author of the new book, “The Treason of the Experts: COVID and the Credentialed Class.”
“There seems to be almost a perversion and a joy in making us obey and be compliant for compliance’s sake,” Harrington says.
We discuss what Harrington sees as the infantilization of society, the techniques of information warfare, and the cudgels of “disinformation” and “misinformation.”
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| 0:00.0 | there seems to be a flippancy about the dignity of others. |
| 0:04.6 | Oh, vaccine injured people. |
| 0:06.6 | Oh, well, we'll censor them, keep them out of the limelight. |
| 0:10.8 | Today's sit down with Thomas Harrington, |
| 0:12.9 | a senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, |
| 0:15.2 | an author of the new book, The Treason of Experts, |
| 0:18.1 | COVID and the Credentialed Class. |
| 0:20.1 | We've become infantilized, |
| 0:22.1 | but we allow these experts to say, |
| 0:24.4 | don't go near that because it might not be good for you. |
| 0:28.7 | So many of us accepted this and said, |
| 0:31.6 | okay, thank you very much for warning me off, |
| 0:34.5 | because I might not have been able to handle it. |
| 0:36.8 | What kind of citizenry is this? |
| 0:39.3 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kelleck. |
| 0:44.3 | Tom Harrington, such a pleasure to have you back |
| 0:46.4 | on American Thought Leaders. |
| 0:47.7 | Very nice to be here, Jan. |
| 0:50.0 | Tom, I've been reading your book The Treason of Experts, |
| 0:52.8 | COVID and the Credentialed Class. |
| 0:56.7 | The Treason of Experts, you know, |
| 0:58.7 | I've been thinking about all sorts of problems |
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