I just watched another incoherent Tim Pool video on medical matters regarding various treatments and prophylactics for SARS-CoV-2. It is time somebody defended reality because humans are now in 2021 utterly confused about what it is or might be. To my knowledge, no one has mounted this kind of defense.
What do I mean by 'incoherent' regarding Tim Pool's medical views? To be fair, much of what Tim said is true as far as I can see, and I support Tim financially because he really does care about reality, but here's an important example of his incoherence.
Tim says ad nauseum that you need to get medical advice from your doctor with respect to vaccines or Ivermectin or other things relevant to the current "pandemic". Tim always sets up your doctor as an authority figure you can trust. He has also absolved himself from any responsibility for giving out medical advice you may follow because you consider Tim himself to be an authority figure. You can't sue Tim! And maybe YouTube won't ban him! Well, that's reasonable enough I guess.
But Tim also says ad nauseum that if you don't like what your doctor tells you, you should find another doctor! If you can pick your own expert, that kind of negates the whole idea of an authority figure, doesn't it?
In fact, Tim is right, though unknowingly. Legitimate authorities do exist, but they are much rarer than you might think. Your flawed mind craves certainty in a chaotic world. Most people will believe anyone who seems to offer them the certainty they require.
This is understandable, but also leads to all sorts of problems. In fact, manipulating people by offering up soothing but fake certainty leads to the kinds of destructive problems the human world is experiencing right now. Like vaccine mandates and other egregious violations of basic human rights. (Basic human rights are and always were a really good idea.) Or blaming all coronavirus problems on the unvaccinated, when reliable hospitalization data tells us otherwise (e.g., the data coming out of Israel). Or vaccinating children, who have almost no risk at all. It's like Pfizer, Moderna, et. al. run the world.
I know, it's frightening. Humans are easily corrupted and demand certainty where little may exist. Well, that's the way the human brain works. Nothing to be done about it.
Still, there are some deeper points to be made here. Let me try to explain.
