The Science™ is Rattled

Watching Anthony Fauci squirm as his precious The Science™ is mugged by The Facts™ has been one of the unexpected entertainment delights of the year so far, at least for those of us who prefer reality to fantasy.

While normies flock to see Tom Holland’s Spiderman metaphorically struggle with puberty for the umpteenth time (according to Hollywood insiders, the next iteration of the franchise will be called Spiderwoman Weans Himself Off Puberty Blockers) and pseudo-intellects marvel at 178cm-tall Matt Damon’s dazzling ability to singlehandedly beat up a bar-room full of burly drunken suitors in The Odyssey, we who have more plausible taste in entertainment have instead been watching the tension and drama increase inside a small Washington congressional hearing room while Kentucky Republican senator Rand Paul repeatedly asks Anthony Fauci’s lawyer to stop interrupting proceedings, then finally gives up and asks security to evict the pest.

Replay that video in slow motion and watch Fauci sink in his chair as his lawyer is escorted, leaving him to dodge questions by himself. There is more drama in those drooping shoulders than Holland could ever extract from Spiderman’s existential angst or Damon could from Odysseus’s journey across turbulent seas occupied by gods and monsters.

That’s because Fauci knows he could be next, and should that happen the stakes will be frighteningly high. The lawyer’s mistake – continuing to talk when common sense said silence was a wiser course of action – is a miniature replication of Fauci’s own monumental blunder throughout the fake Covid pandemic of 2020 and the even faker vaccine rollout of 2021. The potential punishment is likewise proportional. While the lawyer can expect a slap on the wrist for disrupting Congressional formalities, Fauci knows that lying about the pandemic and then using his authority to strenuously advocate for ineffective and potentially lethal vaccines – killing tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people – should, in a just world, attract either a life sentence or the electric chair.

The only thing that can save him now is President Donald Trump squibbing the opportunity to charge the lying, narcissistic little tyrant, which sadly seems likely. Trump’s motives to not pursue Fauci are proof that nobody reaches that level of power without being captured by at least some of the shadowy elites.

But if Fauci’s latest travails don’t conclude in justice being done, we can at least be grateful that his squirming has exposed one of the greatest fallacies of our post-Enlightenment times, that The Science™ is incorruptible. If anything, The Science™ these days has about as much credibility as a chain of dodgy stores selling imported Chinese cigarettes.

Like the organised criminals flogging harmful, addictive products that have been smuggled into Australia and elsewhere to avoid billions of dollars in taxes, many scientists have formed tight-knit cabals promoting snake-oil remedies to imaginary problems that, while not avoiding taxes, are instead funded by them.

The biggest of these scams is of course climate change, which collectively costs the small group of nations stupid enough to fall for it about $US2,000,000,000,000 every year. For that money, the temperature of the planet hasn’t been altered by even a millionth of a degree. But many of the people behind the scam have become fantastically rich, not least of whom is climate change’s Fauci counterpart himself, Al Gore, whose net worth has gone from about $US2 million before the release of his vanity project An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 to about $US300 million today.

You don’t need the head of the International Panel on Climate Change Jim Skea to tell you that climate anxiety is overrated to know that climate change is a scam. You just need to see the sort of hypocritical perks that the scam’s doyens demand. If they really believed that the most extravagant human behaviour was changing the climate, they would hold their conferences via Zoom instead of in tropical five-star resorts.

The bottom is finally, and thankfully, falling out of the scam in Australia. More than four years after federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen first offered generous incentives for opportunists to build floating windmills off the coast of Gippsland, Newcastle, Bunbury and Tasmania, none has so much as signed an agreement, let alone towed one of the proposed 350m-high windmills out to sea to take advantage of all that free wind power, although the birds and fishes off Australia’s coastline would probably be grateful for that.

The other boondoggle to collapse is hydrogen power, which cost Australian taxpayers $52 million in subsidies before the last of the scamming opportunists (including Fortescue, Origin, BP and Woodside) finally pulled out last week.

The demise of what Bowen called in 2022 the global “hydrogen revolution”, in which Australia was going to play a leading part, passed with little comment from the government.

As with the Covid delusions propagated by Fauci, anybody with a skerrick of common sense could tell from the start that climate change was (and still is) an artificial crisis created to keep gullible taxpayers frightened while friends of politicians skim off lucrative fees for pretending to find solutions.

And, as with Fauci, despite overwhelming evidence that the whole thing is nothing but a giant con for a select group of insiders, nobody is ever likely to go to jail for it.

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