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Why can't we form alternatives to the American Pediatric Association, American Psychological Association, American Anthropological Society, etc. etc.?

What was medicine like before the AMA? Pretty much a whole bunch of people trying to figure out the practice of medicine.

This credentialism is a recent phenomenon which has only come to dominate from the early 20th century. Before then, anyone could be a doctor - it was more of an apprenticeship under "recognized" physicians.

The biggest boon to credentialism and modern "medicine" were the multiple wars of the 20th century. Crude antibiotics along with improved surgical techniques inspired trust in "doctors" by the wounded veterans of multiple world and regional wars. They gained a credibility though expediency/need that they otherwise did not deserve. The medical profession capitalized on this, using the military model to stress test doctors, break their wills, and create an obedient civilian corps that would do whatever the upper hierarchy told them.

The practice of medicine is irredeemably broken. Credentialism and obedience to authority have replaced empathy and the scientific method.

It's an older movie, but check out "Lorenzo's Oil." It's about all the bullshit the medical establishment puts in people's way when they're trying to save their child. Thankfully, in this case, the father was a scientist, and figured out what the "doctors" couldn't.

NuttBoxer says

What's the worst thing that happens if someone can call themself a doctor without any licensing or education? Stupid people who don't do their research die. Isn't this Darwin's theory in action? It always surprises me how people who deny God still cling to him, just in the form of weak, corrupt man. If you desire authority in your life to keep you safe, you are really looking for God. Don't accept cheap imitations. But God does for those who can do for themselves. He's big on personal responsibility, but it's what's best for you.

Well said. Look at all the popular entertainment these days (movies, books, video games) all about superheroes, lord of the rings, aliens from outer space, vampires, it’s all supernatural fantastic stuff. People reject the real supernatural being (God the creator and His Spirit and Angels). and then fantasize about other supernatural beings, or becoming supernatural themselves with transhumanism like Elon or other sci fi like false spirituality or even downright Satan worship.

stereotomy says

This credentialism is a recent phenomenon which has only come to dominate from the early 20th century. Before then, anyone could be a doctor - it was more of an apprenticeship under "recognized" physicians.

Madison didn't need to go to Law School. He simply studied Law Books and was tutored by lawyers.

Where is the BAR association given any powers over who gets to be a lawyer in the Constitution?

stereotomy says

What was medicine like before the AMA? Pretty much a whole bunch of people trying to figure out the practice of medicine.

Actually, Rockefeller's AMA put a stop to age old traditional medicine, that had been proven safe and effective over thousands of years. A lot of that is just now starting to come back, as people see the sickcare system for what it is.

Lorenzo's Oil is a GREAT movie. Also, Dallas Buyer's Club, Fauci's first fore into death cults.

AmericanKulak says

Where is the BAR association given any powers over who gets to be a lawyer in the Constitution?

Isn't that a state responsibility? If so, the 10th Amendment. Almost worked for Hillary, she had multiple Bar Exam failures and had to shop for a state to let her proxy pass.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1118019/

Is redemption possible for the sins of expertness? The only one I know that works requires the systematic retirement of experts. To be sure, many of them are sucked into chairs, deanships, vice presidencies, and other black holes in which they are unlikely to influence the progress of science or anything else for that matter. Surely a lot more people could retire from their fields and turn their intelligence, imagination, and methodological acumen to new problem areas where, having shed most of their prestige and with no prior personal pronouncements to defend, they could enjoy the liberty to argue new evidence and ideas on the latter's merits.

But there are still far more experts around than is healthy for the advancement of science. Because their voluntary retirement does not seem to be any more frequent in 2000 than it was in 1980, I repeat my proposal that the retirement of experts be made compulsory at the point of their academic promotion and tenure.

Patrick says

Is redemption possible for the sins of expertness? The only one I know that works requires the systematic retirement of experts. To be sure, many of them are sucked into chairs, deanships, vice presidencies, and other black holes in which they are unlikely to influence the progress of science or anything else for that matter.

I disagree with this. They will just be replaced by the same sort of puppet.

Ignore experts.

Look, every one of us has access to the world's information, if they simply want to use it. We don't need experts anymore.

A lie has many many stories, the truth has only one. When you come across a story that doesn't make sense to you, figure out why it doesn't make sense, then start asking questions. It won't take long for you to either identify an error in your reasoning, OR, that the story you've been told is false.

For example, if I ask "why would Assad gas his own people? It's the ONLY weapon that he could have used to guarantee that Obama would start bombing Syria - so are we expected to think he's stupid?" and the answer I get is "he's a madman!!! You (meaning me) are stupid for not realizing this" - does this make sense? No leader is really insane. Every leader is only a leader because he's got a support group underneath him. If the leader starts acting stupidly, they are removed. If Assad started a war with the US by using chemical weapons, he'd have been assassinated. His advisors would have killed him, and replaced him.

Obama started a war with Syria by lying about it, that's what his advisors wanted. If he DIDN'T start a war, there's plenty of corruption they could have used to remove him. For example, he got a $60 million dollar bribe for imposing Common Core on the nation - that made 1/2 billion dollars of profit for the same company that paid him $60 million dollars for his "memoirs" which nobody gives a shit about, and nobody has read.

https://dee746.substack.com/p/covid-experts-said-vs-meant

https://aghostinthemachine.substack.com/p/a-zero-trust-society

Ours is a zero-trust society, and crazy-sounding conspiracy theorists are usually far more trustworthy than government officials, mainstream journalists, academic researchers, etc. As we have seen, the credentialed “experts” who brandish the regime’s imprimatur have been consistently and catastrophically wrong about everything that matters.

A growing number of people, possibly even a majority, now accept that this is so, even if most of them are reluctant to acknowledge it publicly. People are sick of being conned and gaslit by the powers-that-be. ...

Okay, I know that these “conspiracy theories” can sound pretty crazy, especially when you go outside into the sunshine and “touch grass” and interact with all the shiny, happy normies out there. But let us not forget, my fellow Americans, that in the past few years, our own government recently partnered with Chinese communists to engineer a virus; then, once that virus “escaped” from the lab, our government collaborated with public and private organizations around the globe to lie about the severity of that virus, to lie about which treatments were effective and which ones weren’t, and to censor any and all true information that contradicted its lies; our government then compelled people to take preventative measures and treatments that its own officials knew were ineffective; etc., etc., etc. How many people died as a result, especially once you factor in deaths from despair (suicides, overdoses, etc.)? And precisely none of the folks who committed all of these crimes have even been prosecuted for it, let alone convicted of a crime and sent to prison. And don’t forget that this is a familiar pattern by now: think Iraq, 9/11, the psychotic immigration and border policy, the BLM movement and its “reforms,” etc.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/ban-experts-wednesday-september-25

See, nobody even wanted the stupid plastic bags. People don’t like them. We were happier with paper. It required government regulation to create the plastic bag market. After which, a whole lot of petroleum-adjacent companies earned generational wealth supplying government-mandated plastic bags to grocery stores.

But then the plastic bags began choking the oceans (not literally) —a whole new problem we never had back in the paper bag days, and one that the experts somehow failed to foresee— and now the very same experts soberly tell us we have to just stop it with all these plastic bags, which we never wanted in the first place until the government mandated them.

The experts are worse than useless. They are dangerous madmen. They, not the plastic bags, are the ones who are really choking the planet (Id.). The bags are just symptoms of our expert infection. It’s possible we caught the expert infection from the salmon, too. We don’t know yet.

But it’s clear. There’s only one logical thing to do. We should ban experts.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/climate-jeezus-taketh-away

Ronald Reagan’s daughter, Patti Davis, rent her garments in The New York Times Sunday op-ed page, wailing:

... The subject was Los Angeles on fire, and one person mentioned climate change as a cause. Another commentator smirked and said he didn’t believe it was the cause.

I felt rage surge up past my grief.

My first thought was: “You think you know more than scientists?”

Of course, my first thought reading that was: Who is paying those scientists? The same question you might ask of the scientists at the CDC, NIH, FDA, and NIAID who declared that Covid-19 was definitely not created in a Wuhan lab, and the mRNA vaccines were “safe and effective.” My second thought was: could you possibly find a better example of elite Utopian-Woke performative acting-out? My third thought was: since when are “experts” infallible? My fourth thought was: doesn’t science advance on the basis of continuous argument? My fifth thought was: if Patti Davis is watching the news, she must be in some comfortable and probably luxurious place that did not burn down. ...

An awful lot of homeowners will not be paying their mortgages on a smoldering empty lot. The banks are not in super-fabulous condition these days. How many loans-gone-bad will it take to wreck already unstable banks? And, by the way, the collateral isn’t even there anymore. The re-po man is out of the picture.

What happens to the insurance companies? And the re-insurance companies who theoretically stand behind the insurers? I’ll tell you what happens: they will be backstopped by the government, which doesn’t have the money to backstop them. . . but will create it out of pixels on screens. . . which means expect a considerable uptick in inflation (i.e., a downtick in the purchasing power of the dollar), which will be a black eye for the new Trump administration. ...

If you see a celebrity broadcasting, then they were likely warned and got their shit out ahead of time in exchange for being celebrity crisis actors or having their places spared from the DEWs.

What we are NOT hearing are the myriad thousands of people whose homes have been burned out. With a few exceptions, they have a media blackout, in like Lahaina. You see an account here and there, but the 'celebrities' are the ones with the voices. The celebrities whine as if they don't have three or four other places they own that they could easily roost, or just live at the Four Seasons for the duration.

Let's see if the areas are cordoned off with fences and armed NATO guards, portable crematoriums, and paid off coroner with Freemason apparatchiks. When will the obvious military type mercenaries show up? They will have military style encampments a long time before anybody who got burned out are given shelters. They won't let any independent examiners into the area to scope out what happened or the extent of the deaths.

Pali People mostly have places they can live elsewhere.