THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

PANIC PAYS | 2007-06-17

It is not surprising that so many climatologists agree with global warming and global freezing. It is amazing that so many DISAGREE with it. After all, if you agree with Al Gore, there would be a cabinet-level job for a climatologist and a whole new Department of Climate.

By the same token, the intelligence community never did itself a bigger favor than allowing 9/11 to occur. Everyone who contributed to that disaster has been promoted, every department that failed has twice the budget ad ten times the power that it had before.

I have talked before about how other economists refer to demographics as Panic Science, since only those who take the latest population trends and expand them into a geometric progression, which ALWAYS means impending catastrophe, get famous.

The first rule in all fields is that panic pays and science is handicapped from the start. If you don't understand this up front, you cannot evaluate any real data specialists put out,

"Professional detachment" is an oxymoron.

Alarmism rules professional opinion.

COMMENTS (10)

#1 danerebor | 2007-06-17 18:39

Is there a reason why my e-mail and IP address are displayed under Dave, below? How's that for panic!

#2 danerebor | 2007-06-17 19:21

Thanks!

#3 Mark | 2007-06-17 22:14

"Everyone who contributed to that disaster has been promoted..."

Bob, what are your thoughts on the conspiracy theories that 911 was a government black-op job? Is this line of thinking valid or are the conspericy people a bunch of kooks?

#4 richard | 2007-06-18 07:27

The last openly pro-white prime minister of Britain was Lord Salisbury, over 100 years ago (although Churchill said some pretty nasty things about Indians and blacks). Anyway, there's a quote of his I love which is relevant to Bob's climatologist piece -

"No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense."

#5 Bob | 2007-06-18 08:49

Denebor, once I copied from the wrong place and tht happened. I can't FIND it!

#6 Bob | 2007-06-18 08:52

<p>Mark, the suggestion that American intelligence could plot ANYTHING leaves me in stitches.</p>

#7 danerebor | 2007-06-18 09:15

Bob- Looks like it's fixed now.

Dan

#8 Mark | 2007-06-18 23:07

You know what's scary, Bob? I find myself asking you a question, like about 911, or looking for an answer to a question on WOL and then, after reading your opinion I find myself saying, "Okay, Bob says such and such so the matter's settled."

I even caught myself telling my wife something about race or politics or something -- I forget exactly -- and my only argument to back it up was, "Well, hon, Bob Whitaker said so."

I'm gonna' have to go have my head examined....

#9 Tom | 2007-06-19 01:39

Ole Bob is going to slap me for this, but it means you're a whitakerite. :-P

#10 lyulf | 2007-06-19 14:35

The collapse of WTC towers &amp; WTC bldg #7 looked like controlled demolitions, (cement turned to powder,..etc.)

When the NIST (govn't agency) was asked about this their spokesman replied,

"No it couldn't have been a CD. A controlled demolition of the WTC would have taken tons and tons of explosives (thermite/thermate)."

Using Coach Bob's insights: What are they accidentally telling us?

Bob, Govn't intelligence is a well known oxymoron.

Cheers,

lyulf :)

It is better that scandals arise than the truth be suppressed." -St. Gregory The Great