A mid week high colonic

by liberal japonicus

I'm sorry folks, this started off as a comment, but ended up too long.

I've seen some stuff of Scott Atlas' book
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55141055

Now, I did get him confused with some of the other idiots, like this loser
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/us/politics/ronny-jackson-white-house-doctor.html

and who could forget this guy
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/14/harold-bornstein-trump-ex-doctor-dies-459293

which I would normally feel bad about, but in this case, not so much.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940376041/dr-scott-atlas-special-coronavirus-adviser-to-trump-resigns

I also remember the analysis of his qualifications, and the tweet that got him fired
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/16/politics/atlas-stanford-coronavirus-michigan/index.html

Anyway, it's the age-old story, idiot hires idiot, idiot gets fired, idiot moves on to grifting in some other way. The fact that he is/was a fellow in the Hoover Institute is the little detail that kills me

What made this get moved from a comment to a post was this choice shit sandwich by John Tierney
https://www.city-journal.org/review-of-a-plague-upon-our-house-by-scott-atlas

Atlas’s book, A Plague Upon Our House, is an astonishing read, even for those who have been closely following this disaster. A veteran medical researcher and health-policy analyst at the Hoover Institution, Atlas, a radiologist, joined the Task Force six months into the pandemic, after he had published estimates that lockdowns could ultimately prove more deadly than Covid.

Atlas expected to spend his time at the White House discussing scientific data and debating the best strategies for protecting public health. Instead, he found that the Task Force included “zero public health policy experts and no experts with medical knowledge who also analyzed economic, social, and other broad public health impacts other than the infection itself.” Vice President Mike Pence chaired the Task Force, but Atlas says that Pence and the other members were regularly cowed into submission by three doctors who dominated from the start: Deborah Birx, the Task Force’s coordinator, along with Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control.

Telling to me that the publishing house is Bombardier Books
https://posthillpress.com/bombardier-books

In a time when the media and much of America’s elite tries to limit and stifle debate in the name of sensitivity, safe spaces, and political correctness, now more than ever we need writers with courage and conviction—and the gift to be able to express themselves with intelligence, eloquence, and good humor. Now is the perfect time to unleash a torrent of provocative thought onto the political and cultural battleground.
This is the mission of Bombardier Books. Because sometimes you need to drop rhetorical bombs from 40,000 feet to get people to hear new ideas. Other times you need to target bad policies with laser precision to take them out before they do too much damage. And occasionally you need a tailgunner to defend your comrades-at-arms from sneak attacks.
This we do without fear, but always with one goal in mind: that free speech and open debate make for a stronger society. Only by hearing all voices can we sustain the American Experiment into the 21st century and beyond.

But this has to be one of those idiotic vanity presses lj! Errr, no....
https://posthillpress.com/about
We publish across all formats and platforms, including eBooks, audiobooks, and print books, which are distributed by Simon and Schuster and available worldwide.

and they are definitely playing both sides of the street.
https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3797#m49428
Post Hill Press's Bombardier Books is launching an imprint called Emancipation Books, which will "give a voice to black and minority authors--including conservatives, libertarians, traditional liberals, and iconoclasts--whose nonconforming views are seldom represented in mainstream media, and find themselves increasingly unwelcome at the larger publishing houses."

The name Tierney rang a bell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tierney_(journalist)

Tierney identifies himself as a libertarian and has become increasingly identified with libertarianism.

Joseph J. Romm has written that Tierney is one of the "influential but misinformed" skeptics who have helped prevent the United States from taking action on climate change. In his 2007 book Hell and High Water, Romm cites, and claims to refute, what he calls Tierney's "misinformation".[14] Columbia Journalism Review complains Tierney "has a tendency to support his point of view using sources with a clear ideological or special interest agenda, without properly identifying them".

In 2007 Tierney wrote a column claiming that Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's 1962 book on the detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, is a "hodgepodge of science and junk science" whose rhetoric still "drowns out real science", such as the work of agricultural bacteriologist Ira Baldwin. Among those who have criticized the column for alleged errors of fact and misrepresentation are Erik M. Conway, Naomi Oreskes, and Merrill Goozner.

In 2016 Tierney criticized President Barack Obama for "politicized science to advance his agenda" and appointees in the Obama administration for "junk science—or no science—to justify misbegotten crusades against dietary salt, trans fats, and electronic cigarettes. According to Tierney, they cited phony statistics to spread myths about a gender pay gap and a rape crisis on college campuses".

God help us.

Comments

[Crprod]

I had always assumed that this was the source of the name and inspiration for the content. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_beetle

[liberal japonicus]

That would certainly explain a lot.

[cleek]

thick as thieves.

[wj]

thick as thieves.

Unless you parse "thick" in the sense of "not too smart." In which case, the thieves are a cut above. (How dumb do you have to be to fall for ads for "Blessed Spring Water"? Which seem to be cropping up on my TV with increasing frequency.)

[nooneithinkisinmytree]

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/10-famous-book-hoarders?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I have close to 1000, I would guess, but who's counting. Not me, though I love rearranging them.

What about you eloquent, literate folks?

[wj]

4 standard width bookshelves, 7 shelves each. And overflowing elsewhere -- at least another 2-3 bookshelves worth, probable more. Never bothered to count actual books.

I'd buy more, but the local library is really supurb. And what they don't have can be ordered from anywhere in the whole bloody state. Bliss!

[Hartmut]

Abusing my student status to download tons of books via the university library. Still no room to properly shelve all the material books I have. It would help but not solve the problem, if I did not also collect DVDs.
Fiction only has protected minority status by now though. Some of my favorite fiction authors having died and thus being slow on producing more plays a role there but even they were doing but rearguard action as far as my book collection goes. And then there are those hybrids like renaissance latin works of fiction that are not primarily read for entertainment value.
There's far more already than I'll be ever able to actually read (at least completely).
I wonder what will happen to all of this, especially because I have no children nor the intent to have any. Being incel all my live and expecting to stay so makes that question mute anyway. To paraphrase numerous comedians: a woman willing to put up with me would by that alone disqualify herself.
OK, back to searching for that book on the Parthian empire that I know is hiding somewhere in this apartment for months now.

[CharlesWT]

I recently binged read 18 Jesse Stone novels...

[Matt McIrvin]

"Bombardier" just makes me think of the Canadian company that used to make all sorts of trains, buses, snowmobiles and jet planes (it's now sold off most of those bits and contracted to just a business jet manufacturer).

[hairshirthedonist]

Me, too. The light rail line that runs by my office building has the name plastered on the train cars.

[Hartmut]

Over here in Germany and specifically in Berlin too.

[cleek]

for some reason, Bombardier snowmobiles were mythical to the teenage boys in my neighborhood who would only ever get to ride Polaris and Ski-Doo. they were what we imagined the real hard-core Canadian kids rode in places where there was eight feet of snow ten months of the year.

[hairshirthedonist]

Those degens up north?

[cleek]

yeah. they all drank Molson Bradors and rode Bombardiers to go play hockey on frozen lakes.

not like us wimpy NY kids who had to steal Genny lights from our dads and hide in the woods to drink them, like criminals.