I don’t know whether you are a hero or a coward. If I practiced surgery the way you practice science, I doubt my patients would appreciate my self interest... The fact that you are even studying the effects of climate change on wildfires - when there is ample evidence that that is not even a significant factor, speaks volumes. Take your mea culpa somewhere else. Grow a pair...
I don’t know whether you are a hero or a coward. If I practiced surgery the way you practice science, I doubt my patients would appreciate my self interest... The fact that you are even studying the effects of climate change on wildfires - when there is ample evidence that that is not even a significant factor, speaks volumes. Take your mea culpa somewhere else. Grow a pair...
Did you miss this part?? "I left academia over a year ago, partially because I felt the pressures put on academic scientists caused too much of the research to be distorted. Now, as a member of a private nonprofit research center, The Breakthrough Institute, I feel much less pressure to mold my research to the preferences of prominent journal editors and the rest of the field. " He is taking his mea culpa elsewhere and will be continuing to contributre
Lol. While you’re not wrong let’s not get too hubristic about the author’s dilemma. I bet you vehemently disagree with some of what the ACS endorses these days but I also bet you still pay your dues, keep your nose out of the hot topics, and put FACS on your business cards. Or you don’t in which case you’re retired and the point is moot.
Idk how surgeons are less susceptible to what the author had done. As we speak, medical students are complicit in affirming sex is not binary for humans, doctors are affirming people have gender souls, ob-gyns are treating patients with "neo vaginas", the AMA and APA supports "gender affirming care" and all their literature have erased the existence of women, and surgeons are performing "sex change" operations. Not you, of course, but seems to me a lot of patients are still flocking to these doctors and surgeons.
"The fact that you are even studying the effects of climate change on wildfires - when there is ample evidence that that is not even a significant factor . . ."
Dr. Brown says climate change DOES add to wildfire strength and frequency. So I have no issue with him studying that for his report.
My complaint is that the two things he left out to ensure he'd be published in Nature instead of a "lesser" journal are FAR more important for citizens and policymakers to know than the climate change stuff: that firebugs start 80 percent of all wildfires, and that changing our forest management practices would by itself negate all climate change impact.
All of which makes his report the intellectual equivalent of "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
Hi Dr. Paramore, I hear you but - we are grateful for the exposure of this issue. And, I feel compelled to add that there are a great many plastic surgeons in this country right now who are happy to perform double mastectomies, etc. on confused teen girls in the name of Gender Ideology. They seem to be doing very well so far with the self interest. I do not think they will grow a pair but they might feel the lawsuits eventually. Jail time would be best.
Finally, there are many surgeons happy to chop off a pair for money.
I am not angry at confused teens and young adults - or even with mentally ill adults. They all need Real help. I am angry with the profiteers in medicine, pharma and government. And, I think that the Education establishment - led by state and local government - have fanned the problem - to say the least. I do not expect you to agree with this bit - and I must add that our young adult daughter is physically unharmed and seems to be improving - but
I think that after trial the consequences need to be more than loss of job/license/money - but more along the lines of public hanging - where the mamas "throw the first stone". Perhaps they could perform Gender Affirmation on such people? It IS all about #BeKind afterall - see https://pitt.substack.com/p/blissfully-almost-ignorant And, no - the mamas should not have medical degrees - or even degrees from Boston University.
And this is why conservatives are going to keep on losing and losing. Purity tests work great on the Left because they took the time over the last 50+ years to capture all the institutions that matter. They don't work on the Right because conservatives need to reach some of the "independent" and "apolitical" people who mostly accept the default liberal-created/magnified Narratives. And since the mainstream media is one of the captured institutions, that involves communicating over the top or around them.
We absolutely need people like this who are or have been actually in the game exposing what really goes on beyond the curtain. Unless you're looking forward to group public showers in a dank cellar and whatever else the Left has in mind for all the plebes in order to "save the planet".
Getting the piece published was important to establish his credibility, so as the journal publishes his paper he can immediately say "they only published it because I told them what they wanted to hear, now here is the actual research."
This effective rhetorical attack wouldn't have been possible if he hadn't been published first. I think Patrick and TFP are quite clever.
I give the author credit for at least touching on the more immediate factors that cause wildfires. I criticize him for maintaining a link to climate change itself rather than the religion that has sprung up around it as one of those factors. The great irony of the Maui fire is that it was most likely started by downed wires, wires and other infrastructure that has been neglected in part to finance the “snake oil” elixir of solar panels and windmills. It was compounded by cultural imbeciles that refused to provide the water that could have mitigated some of the 1,000 deaths that resulted.
And to all the fools that would have you believe that climate change is responsible for the combustible conditions that led to the tragedy, the truth is, all the islands have a wet and dry side. Lahaina is on the dry side of Maui. The potential for such a catastrophic firestorm has been well known for decades. But just as with the flooding and wind damage from hurricanes that occur elsewhere, preventative measures that could have been implemented have been ignored. Instead, money is diverted to “green infrastructure” boondoggles like windmills and the sonar mapping that kills whales and dolphins while lining the pockets of snake oil salesman that peddle them. All of which is abetted by "scientists" who publish "studies" that deceive a poorly informed public.
It wouldn't have been a "catastrophic firestorm" if the local officials had released the water supply to fight the fire. The tragedy was human error, not "climate change."
Yes. Release ten thousand goats on the grass fields to reduce them to stubble, and release the water when the Fire Department demands it. I know little about emergency planning and even I know that--reduce the fuel before the fire, douse the fire as soon as it starts.
Is anyone else tired of paying billions of tax dollars to "experts" who keep dropping the ball when it's game time?
Worse than that, Tim, I believe that the Maui government officials were explicitly warned of the danger and ignored the warnings. In other words, criminally negligent homicide. Will they be prosecuted? You tell me.
I haven't been to Lahaina in quite some time so it would be difficult for me to say. I do recall that the last time I was there, forty plus years ago, the buildings were old and relied on the character of its whaling heritage to induce tourist visits however they weren't conducive to supporting a tourist mecca.
The likely scenario now is that developers will swoop in and buy up uninsured property at discounted prices and perform their best Disney recreation of a whaling village. My guess is the local pols will have dollar signs flashed before their eyes and ignore anything that could impede reconstruction. Whether the promise of such an opportunity influenced a lack of action by those in charge is something we’re unlikely to ever know.
The fact that this fire was a huge win for rich developers and a huge loss for native Hawaiian long-time residents of Lahaina is something that should be remembered at every point during the investigation.
I think it's too easy to get trapped. Science is an interesting subject. It may have began as a genuine desire to study and grow in the field. However, to make it in the field requires so much time and even more money. Most people that got suckerd into having six figure debts, while having families to support and wanting to keep food on the table would sacrifice ethics just to stay afloat. It takes courage to admit you were wrong and make changes, which is what this author has done.
I appreciate the honesty. To me the significant thing is he had to abandon academia to do it. A lot of people sniff about political echo chambers but at least there are two of those.
Spoken like a true surgeon: white and black, good tissue or bad tissue.
Dr. Brown is neither a hero nor a coward. He’s just human. If you haven’t made compromises in your career, it’s probably because you never recognized them as such.
If you have never wondered whether surgery was the right course of action when a non-invasive solution existed, maybe it’s time to develop a more nuanced view of life. Do you tell your female colleagues to grow a pair? I hear they don’t make as many errors.
You don't think you do. But I work with surgeons - and most do things wrong from time to time (doing higher billing procedures when evidence is borderline, etc). I do wonder if a bit of narcissism exists in you i thinking you are so pure, while others are just evil (just from reading your other posts).
There’s an old saying: “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” I’m glad that the author was able to continue his research interests with more intellectual freedom at a private institution. Academia is utterly compromised, mostly because all of the research funding comes from government bureaucrats with ideological agendas (see also: Anthony Fauci).
Oh yes Dr Anthony Fauci the biggest liar of them all - his lies have brought us all to our knees it’s a disgrace that MSM still quote and interview him
I don’t know whether you are a hero or a coward. If I practiced surgery the way you practice science, I doubt my patients would appreciate my self interest... The fact that you are even studying the effects of climate change on wildfires - when there is ample evidence that that is not even a significant factor, speaks volumes. Take your mea culpa somewhere else. Grow a pair...
Did you miss this part?? "I left academia over a year ago, partially because I felt the pressures put on academic scientists caused too much of the research to be distorted. Now, as a member of a private nonprofit research center, The Breakthrough Institute, I feel much less pressure to mold my research to the preferences of prominent journal editors and the rest of the field. " He is taking his mea culpa elsewhere and will be continuing to contributre
Lol. While you’re not wrong let’s not get too hubristic about the author’s dilemma. I bet you vehemently disagree with some of what the ACS endorses these days but I also bet you still pay your dues, keep your nose out of the hot topics, and put FACS on your business cards. Or you don’t in which case you’re retired and the point is moot.
Idk how surgeons are less susceptible to what the author had done. As we speak, medical students are complicit in affirming sex is not binary for humans, doctors are affirming people have gender souls, ob-gyns are treating patients with "neo vaginas", the AMA and APA supports "gender affirming care" and all their literature have erased the existence of women, and surgeons are performing "sex change" operations. Not you, of course, but seems to me a lot of patients are still flocking to these doctors and surgeons.
"The fact that you are even studying the effects of climate change on wildfires - when there is ample evidence that that is not even a significant factor . . ."
Dr. Brown says climate change DOES add to wildfire strength and frequency. So I have no issue with him studying that for his report.
My complaint is that the two things he left out to ensure he'd be published in Nature instead of a "lesser" journal are FAR more important for citizens and policymakers to know than the climate change stuff: that firebugs start 80 percent of all wildfires, and that changing our forest management practices would by itself negate all climate change impact.
All of which makes his report the intellectual equivalent of "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
Hi Dr. Paramore, I hear you but - we are grateful for the exposure of this issue. And, I feel compelled to add that there are a great many plastic surgeons in this country right now who are happy to perform double mastectomies, etc. on confused teen girls in the name of Gender Ideology. They seem to be doing very well so far with the self interest. I do not think they will grow a pair but they might feel the lawsuits eventually. Jail time would be best.
Finally, there are many surgeons happy to chop off a pair for money.
Absolutely agree
HH, MD
I really appreciate you chiming in as a doctor.
I am not angry at confused teens and young adults - or even with mentally ill adults. They all need Real help. I am angry with the profiteers in medicine, pharma and government. And, I think that the Education establishment - led by state and local government - have fanned the problem - to say the least. I do not expect you to agree with this bit - and I must add that our young adult daughter is physically unharmed and seems to be improving - but
I think that after trial the consequences need to be more than loss of job/license/money - but more along the lines of public hanging - where the mamas "throw the first stone". Perhaps they could perform Gender Affirmation on such people? It IS all about #BeKind afterall - see https://pitt.substack.com/p/blissfully-almost-ignorant And, no - the mamas should not have medical degrees - or even degrees from Boston University.
We have been here before: https://pitt.substack.com/p/echoes-of-eugenics-what-the-doctors
History does not exactly repeat but it does rhythm.
Thank you, HH, MD!
And this is why conservatives are going to keep on losing and losing. Purity tests work great on the Left because they took the time over the last 50+ years to capture all the institutions that matter. They don't work on the Right because conservatives need to reach some of the "independent" and "apolitical" people who mostly accept the default liberal-created/magnified Narratives. And since the mainstream media is one of the captured institutions, that involves communicating over the top or around them.
We absolutely need people like this who are or have been actually in the game exposing what really goes on beyond the curtain. Unless you're looking forward to group public showers in a dank cellar and whatever else the Left has in mind for all the plebes in order to "save the planet".
Getting the piece published was important to establish his credibility, so as the journal publishes his paper he can immediately say "they only published it because I told them what they wanted to hear, now here is the actual research."
This effective rhetorical attack wouldn't have been possible if he hadn't been published first. I think Patrick and TFP are quite clever.
I give the author credit for at least touching on the more immediate factors that cause wildfires. I criticize him for maintaining a link to climate change itself rather than the religion that has sprung up around it as one of those factors. The great irony of the Maui fire is that it was most likely started by downed wires, wires and other infrastructure that has been neglected in part to finance the “snake oil” elixir of solar panels and windmills. It was compounded by cultural imbeciles that refused to provide the water that could have mitigated some of the 1,000 deaths that resulted.
And to all the fools that would have you believe that climate change is responsible for the combustible conditions that led to the tragedy, the truth is, all the islands have a wet and dry side. Lahaina is on the dry side of Maui. The potential for such a catastrophic firestorm has been well known for decades. But just as with the flooding and wind damage from hurricanes that occur elsewhere, preventative measures that could have been implemented have been ignored. Instead, money is diverted to “green infrastructure” boondoggles like windmills and the sonar mapping that kills whales and dolphins while lining the pockets of snake oil salesman that peddle them. All of which is abetted by "scientists" who publish "studies" that deceive a poorly informed public.
It wouldn't have been a "catastrophic firestorm" if the local officials had released the water supply to fight the fire. The tragedy was human error, not "climate change."
Yes. Release ten thousand goats on the grass fields to reduce them to stubble, and release the water when the Fire Department demands it. I know little about emergency planning and even I know that--reduce the fuel before the fire, douse the fire as soon as it starts.
Is anyone else tired of paying billions of tax dollars to "experts" who keep dropping the ball when it's game time?
We’ve had “experts” wreaking havoc for a long time, going back (and likely before) to the Vietnam era “Best and Brightest.”
Maybe we should be looking for “well, they’re not geniuses, but they shouldn’t mess things up too much.”
how about if they kept the dry grass cut and managed ? less fuel ?
No, NO , we need more bird killing windmills.
CNN still flogging it as such.
Yes and we need to be explicitly clear that they're lying. They are a disinformation outlet.
Worse than that, Tim, I believe that the Maui government officials were explicitly warned of the danger and ignored the warnings. In other words, criminally negligent homicide. Will they be prosecuted? You tell me.
No they won’t Bruce.
I haven't been to Lahaina in quite some time so it would be difficult for me to say. I do recall that the last time I was there, forty plus years ago, the buildings were old and relied on the character of its whaling heritage to induce tourist visits however they weren't conducive to supporting a tourist mecca.
The likely scenario now is that developers will swoop in and buy up uninsured property at discounted prices and perform their best Disney recreation of a whaling village. My guess is the local pols will have dollar signs flashed before their eyes and ignore anything that could impede reconstruction. Whether the promise of such an opportunity influenced a lack of action by those in charge is something we’re unlikely to ever know.
The fact that this fire was a huge win for rich developers and a huge loss for native Hawaiian long-time residents of Lahaina is something that should be remembered at every point during the investigation.
I think it's too easy to get trapped. Science is an interesting subject. It may have began as a genuine desire to study and grow in the field. However, to make it in the field requires so much time and even more money. Most people that got suckerd into having six figure debts, while having families to support and wanting to keep food on the table would sacrifice ethics just to stay afloat. It takes courage to admit you were wrong and make changes, which is what this author has done.
I appreciate the honesty. To me the significant thing is he had to abandon academia to do it. A lot of people sniff about political echo chambers but at least there are two of those.
This wasn’t even a mea culpa. He explicitly said that he published a good paper.
Spoken like a true surgeon: white and black, good tissue or bad tissue.
Dr. Brown is neither a hero nor a coward. He’s just human. If you haven’t made compromises in your career, it’s probably because you never recognized them as such.
If you have never wondered whether surgery was the right course of action when a non-invasive solution existed, maybe it’s time to develop a more nuanced view of life. Do you tell your female colleagues to grow a pair? I hear they don’t make as many errors.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/female-surgeons-get-better-results-than-male-counterparts-7ba9b9c2
they probably dont make as many errors as they dont take as many chances. and ye females should "grow a pair' and stop being victims
Well said!!
I wonder all the time. The difference is I don’t intentionally do the wrong thing. Black and white saves lives by the way.
You don't think you do. But I work with surgeons - and most do things wrong from time to time (doing higher billing procedures when evidence is borderline, etc). I do wonder if a bit of narcissism exists in you i thinking you are so pure, while others are just evil (just from reading your other posts).
excessive
I see the author as both a hero and a coward. Ultimately though, he has compromised my trust in whatever he publishes.
I see him as a liar and a coward.
Do not agree
There’s an old saying: “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” I’m glad that the author was able to continue his research interests with more intellectual freedom at a private institution. Academia is utterly compromised, mostly because all of the research funding comes from government bureaucrats with ideological agendas (see also: Anthony Fauci).
Oh yes Dr Anthony Fauci the biggest liar of them all - his lies have brought us all to our knees it’s a disgrace that MSM still quote and interview him
Maybe reread the article
He did.
He's the latter, but he's making $ off it.
How about a properly organized refutation rather than a cheap judgement