GLI Liberty Network

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[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

"Atlas stressed the importance of training young people early in their careers to “embolden them that the truth matters.”. 'I think most of them want the truth,' he said. 'We have to get rid of the fear of speaking out'.”
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[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Experts @ScottAtlas_IT and Steven E. Koonin: “Galileo noted the irrelevance of consensus by writing, ‘the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.’

Indeed, history is filled with consensus that has been challenged and ultimately proven wrong, from Galileo to Einstein to more recent examples like continental drift and the bacterial theory of ulcers.” https://t.co/WRhGWoodLA

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Experts @ScottAtlas_IT and Steven E. Koonin: “Awareness of the Consensus Trap is particularly important in light of a 2025 revision of the Federal Judicial Center Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which for the first time specified ‘widespread acceptance’ as the highest form of scientific certainty.

That standard would institutionalize, in the federal courts, the confusion between a manufactured consensus and one that is earned by critical debate of evidence.” https://t.co/WRhGWoodLA

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Experts @ScottAtlas_IT and Steven E. Koonin: “The 2008 financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic management, and the campaign for rapid decarbonization [all] share a common pathology we call the Consensus Trap. Each of these failures derives from an alignment of powerful institutions and leaders in manufacturing a consensus not supported by the evidence.” https://t.co/WRhGWoodLA

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @ScottAtlas_IT: “We're in a free country. A burden of freedom is a responsibility to think critically. There's no top-down solution… we need to have free speech, freedom of the media, and we need to have people challenging [the narrative] and giving air to people who dissent. Without allowing debate, there is no such thing as science, and you cannot arrive at the truth.”

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @ScottAtlas_IT: “The harms of [government] policies [like the 2008 financial crisis, COVID and climate change] are tremendous on the poor and low-income, regular people, yet the people who led those policies and faked the consensus suffer no consequences. There's no accountability. They remain in power and even get accolades, as we've seen.”

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @ScottAtlas_IT: “The 2008 financial crisis… the COVID fiasco, and ongoing climate change… each are an alignment of powerful people and institutions that manufacture a false consensus that’s not supported by the evidence. These people are elites [and the problems are] based on very complex, intimidating mathematical models that regular people don't understand, but those models are flawed…”

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @ScottAtlas_IT: “Part of the process [as we regain trust in experts] is stepping up... to be a critical thinker.

There's a burden when you want to have the responsibility of being a free person in a free society. It’s not just a gift…. It comes with the burden of responsibility to think as a human being, to make the effort to find information for you and your family, and to question the people giving you the information.”

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @ScottAtlas_IT joined the @SteveDeaceShow to discuss the lack of trust in expertise post-COVID.

Atlas: “What we have here now is a pendulum swinging pretty wildly, sadly, to the point of saying no expertise is legitimate, no training matters, no scientific data is legitimate. I'm very concerned about that.”

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @ScottAtlas_IT: "We are in disarray. I don't wanna be a doomsayer, but the basis of a free society and a very diverse society that's as big as ours, the United States, needs to have trust... But the question is how... It's a process, and part of the process is stepping up individually in the meantime to be a critical thinker."

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “The Economist promises to uncover ‘the truth and the lies’ about ‘Islam in Europe.’ The story it presents is a reassuring one: a crisis of two extreme fringes fighting across a sensible middle. But this is a false framing that betrays the complexity of Islam in Europe it promises to untangle, just when honest understanding is urgently needed.” https://t.co/H9xCYMbbRu

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert Scott Atlas: “Why did trust drop? ...There were a lot of claims made: The virus had a far higher fatality rate than the flu by several orders of magnitude; everyone had a significant risk to die; no one has immunity because the virus is completely novel; closing schools and businesses, confining people inside their homes, stopping non-COVID medical care, eliminating travel will eliminate or stop the virus from spreading; masks are protective; immune protection is only available from a vaccine...

All of that was known to be false—known in spring 2020.” https://t.co/3Xf2ZBupKs

[The Independent with Scott Atlas @ScottAtlas_IT]

Atlas on the Consensus Trap: "Any legitimate consensus stands up to the challenges... The scientific debate is what makes science. Without allowing the debate, there is no such thing as science and you cannot arrive at the truth." @KatiePavlich

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @JoshRauh: "One of the main dangers of... the wealth tax Californians will vote on in November is its likely effects on the financing ecosystem for CA startups.

Founders themselves are saying it, like Rippling’s Parker Conrad, who posted on @X, 'Leave California before the Series B.'

Dallas-based investor Mark Cuban has taken it to another level, writing last month on X... 'I will make NOT being in California a prerequisite for an investment.'" https://t.co/hJvshCcMmx

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @ScottAtlas_IT: “Alexis de Tocqueville warned nearly 2 centuries ago that the gravest threat to free societies is not the tyrant but the self-imposed suppression of unpopular truth.”

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

Upcoming @_GlobalLiberty event in Sarasota, Florida, Nov 17th:
"AI and Society: Law, Health, and Consequences"
Register ↪️https://t.co/qPhXx4ND7G

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GLI Expert @VDHanson: “These people are all the beneficiaries of this wonderful Constitution, scientific progress, materialism, all of this opportunity, and yet they never give any credit to the people who provided them with that rich entitlement. All they can do is be nihilistic and tear down; they can never create or build up or honor people who were greater than they were.” https://t.co/tNBSjYbzVX

[The Independent with Scott Atlas @ScottAtlas_IT]

"Science and expertise have an important role in informing policy...But a manufactured consensus has played a central role in some of the most impactful policy failures. Science is not determined by consensus; its validity is proven by robustness under challenge and free debate" https://t.co/mVue5D1NKR

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

GLI Expert @VDHanson: “Foundations that fund research, the government bureaucracies, the universities, sabbaticals — all of that machinery favors people who see the story of America as the totality of its sins, not its great genius or benefactions.” https://t.co/SLsKuOF1K5

[GLI Liberty Network @_GlobalLiberty]

@VDHanson Watch the interview: https://t.co/SLsKuOF1K5