I told you that Brian Lauer is an ignorant buffoon, but you shouldn’t trust my opinion alone. Last night, Mark Reid and Dr. Dan worked over the same presentation and came to the same conclusion, so it’s official: Lauer is a kook.
But perhaps you are cautiously skeptical. You need more evidence. You want direct evidence from Lauer himself. Here’s the introduction to a podcast on Real Science Radio
(it’s not real science) which is just conspiracy theories stacked on conspiracy theories.
RSR host Fred Williams is joined by Brian Lauer to unravel the World Economic Forum’s “The Great Reset”, a consortium of wealthy and powerful evolutionists looking to use the pandemic as an excuse to push their worldview. On the surface, it’s just another socialist economic plan in a similar vein to FDR’s disastrous New Deal and LBJ’s failed Great Society, but this time it’s driven by the flawed science of materialism and climate change. Like its predecessors, the underlying false assumptions will end up hurting the economy and tearing away at the middle class, further dividing society and fueling class warfare. “The Great Reset” globalists have posted 8 predictions of what the world will look like in 2030 if governments buy into their short-sighted ideas. Better stock up on T-bones now!
But even more sinister are a litany of ideas hidden in the subterfuge of “The Great Reset”, such as biometric surveillance and transhumanism. A key advisor to “The Great Reset” is Yuval Noah Harari, a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. While he warns that transhumanism can be pushed too far, such as digital dictatorships with total control over their population, his false worldview steeped in the fake science of materialism leads him to the silly belief that humans are “hackable animals” that can have their total consciousness manipulated such that “free will is over”. For more, check out this brief video Brian found and hear it for yourself! You can also hear more from his talk at a recent creation conference.
I choked and passed out at wealthy and powerful evolutionists
, so the rest was just noise.
I got as far as “FDR’s disastrous New Deal”. It is obvious that millions of Americans absolutely hate Social Security, hate having FDIC insurance on their bank accounts, never benefited from what the Fair Labor Standards Acts, the WPA and the CCC did, hate the SEC, etc.
Also, I strongly dislike Yuval Noah Harari, so seeing him propped up as representative of the evilutionist side is very annoying.
What has this guy been drinking to think that a consortium of wealthy and powerful people would have an interest in enforcing a socialist economic plan?
If you want to see the economic policy of a government completely in the hands of consortium of wealthy people, look at the Trump disaster!
What a let-down! I thought I was going to read about recent experiences with a northern bird with a funny call.
Instead, I’m reading about the usual content-free noise, and I’ve got enough of that in my life.
Phooey!
It’s a silly belief that humans can have their consciousness manipulated?! I’ll notify the media. Or maybe the alcohol industry
The Consortium Of Wealthy And Powerful Evolutionists (COWAPE) sounds like a Marvel supervillain team. And too bad Lauer didn’t call them the Consortium Of Wealthy Powerful Iniquitous Evolutionists (COWPIE).
Meanwhile in Spain, a Roman era trilobite jewelry pendant has been found. A quick look at Amazon shows trilobites are seemingly a popular jewelry accessory. Plus trilobite T-shirts.
https://www.science.org/content/article/trilobite-fossil-became-ancient-roman-bling
I’m very much no chef or great cook but I somehow doubt that any T-bones purchsed now will be much good at all in five years time from now.
The first sentence is wrong. It is a bunch of lies strung together. This is not a good start.
.1. The World Economic Forum is not a “consortium of wealthy and powerful evolutionists…”
It is the opposite.
This is the Davos meeting in Switzerland every year.
“The World Economic Forum (WEF) is primarily funded by its member organizations, which are typically large, multinational corporations”
It is rich corporations and rich billionaires.
.2. Wealthy and powerful evolutionists don’t exist.
No one calls themselves evolutionists and the scholars of evolution are at best overworked and underpaid university professors.
.3. “…looking to use the pandemic as an excuse to push their worldview. ”
Scientists didn’t use the pandemic as an excuse to push their worldview.
They worked very hard to save lives and end the pandemic.
In the USA, the rapid development of the Covid-19 virus mRNA vaccines saved the lives of an estimated 3.2 million Americans. That is a lot.
The contribution of the antivaxxer fundie xians was to get in the way and kill a lot of people.
The antivaxxers managed to kill 400,000 of their group.
The second sentence is also wrong.
FDR’s New Deal was a huge success and widely popular.
It managed to end the Great Depression, a traumatic time in US history.
We are still living in that era.
The most notable of his accomplishments is probably Social Security.
LBJ’s Great Society was also a huge accomplishment and we are still living in that era as well.
The most obvious is his creation of Medicare and Medicaid.
Before FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Societly, old age was synonymous with living in poverty.
Old people, too old to work and sick with age related medical problems, often lived in severe poverty. The average lifespans in those days were less than now.
I’ve seen enough.
These guys are Qanon class idiots and it isn’t worth wasting any more time on them.
@PZ: “wealthy and powerful evolutionists…”
Congratulations on your newfound wealth and power!
@7 cheerfulcharlie
Haus Heterodyne! Girl Genius is my favourite webcomic bar none, the Foglios would get a right tingle out of that.
“FDR’s disastrous New Deal and LBJ’s failed Great Society.” Those words tell us all we need to know about the radical “Christian” right: they want to completely erase an ENTIRE CENTURY of recent US history, and that’s just the beginning for them.
Actual loons are cute. These people are just plain malicious.
Me, too, PZ, in fact I couldn’t even keep reading. But then I got to thinking…you’re probably hiding your billions of dollars in the spider cages in your lab.
I dare you to reach in and scoop out my fortune.
Holy shit, the conspiracy theorizing knows no limit. Crank magnetism at its pejorative zenith.
PZ @ #15 — I knew it. I’m not afraid of your hordes of spiders…well, some of them a little. But I’m no arachnophobe…I live with lots of spiders. Anyway, you can keep your fortune as I’ve got “enough” (quoting Vonnegut). Besides I would have to get to the middle-of-no-where Minnesota. Too long to drive, and I do have aviophobia.
@15. PZ Myers : You have a fortune? I really wish you did.. I do reckon you’d use it well.