Did you ever imagine the global economy, your job, your life and even your eternal life in desperate need of the sacraments of the Church would hinge on the opinions of some un-elected bureaucrat physician like Dr. Anthony Fauci? How did we even get to this point? Why should we even care what Dr. Fauci thinks? Well—we really shouldn’t care that much.
I have addressed this topic before in the context of how COVIDism is really a pseudo-religion designed to manipulate and control others. Experts like Fauci play a religious function as the all-knowing seer who serves as the infallible fountain and source of all “science,” which they believe is the equivalent to the truth.
I want to shift the focus a bit onto medical professionals in more detail and why their status as “experts,” especially when making life or death public policy decisions, really needs to be taken with a grain of salt and how the legal profession has known this for years. Yet, the American public has lately placed these people on god-like pedestals to the point where all rational skepticism and logic is abandoned in order to follow the diktats of “the expert.”
There are actual so-called medical professionals in this country, trained at American medicals schools of the highest prestige, that believe killing an unborn baby in the womb is not murder. The same “professionals” go on to counsel women to have abortions or to take contraceptives that cause abortions. There are some who even believe that “male” and “female” are not objective realities and then feel free to mutilate the bodies of patients, even children. They even redefined the meaning of “brain death” several decades ago so they can harvest organs from live bodies, before the body is truly dead.
The point being those medical professionals, and other “experts,” are not immune (no pun intended) from the warped and evil ideology infiltrating the culture to the point we have reached societal collapse. With that in mind, I want to discuss the notion of an “expert” because this topic is just another one of thousands where ignorance of simple concepts abounds.
When the media or your friends on social media talk about “experts” they usually mean someone who they believe has some level of knowledge and/or experience above and beyond the normal population on any given topic. And this is generally an acceptable definition. The problem is what the media and your social media friends do with that “expert” label that leads to problems of ridiculous proportions.
A Short Primer on Expert Opinions
I practiced law and litigated cases for over 15 years and participated in more than one hundred trials and fact-finding administrative hearings over that time. I have participated in even more expert depositions. Primarily in the realm of administrative law, I have cross-examined hundreds of physicians and others in the medical field in depositions and hearings. Ironically, that qualifies me as an expert to talk about “experts” or at least what it means to be an expert.
The first thing you need to know about experts, is that they are human beings, just like everyone else. They put their pants on the same way as you do in the morning, they have the same personal problems like you do, some even are dealing with massive psychological breakdowns. Some are Christians, many are pagans, some are alcoholics…you get the picture. There are some REALLY good experts out there, and some REALLY bad experts out there. Most fall somewhere in the middle. The take-away should be: THEY ARE NOT GODS OR PERFECT OR ALL KNOWING.
Second thing to keep in mind is that experts, when asked to analyze questions or solve problems for others based on their knowledge and experience, are only providing OPINIONS. Those opinions should be based on some objectively verifiable facts. The expert’s role is to take those facts and synthesize and analyze them to reach a conclusion. Because the expert has specialized training or experience, at least in a court of law, those opinions are given greater weight than those of someone without training or experience. This is why those who testify as experts at trials must first be “qualified” as experts before they are allowed to testify because the court (or fact-finder) is going to be relying on that expertise.
However, any good lawyer knows that the expert’s opinion is only as good as the underlying facts that the expert used to form his opinion. In other words, if the expert relies on incorrect or incomplete information to form an opinion, then that opinion is likely going to be false and incomplete as well.
For example, if an expert orthopedic physician testifies that based on an automobile fender bender, the victim of the car accident required neck surgery as a result of that accident, that opinion may seem reasonable to a jury. However, if evidence is later presented that shows between the time of the car accident and the time the orthopedic surgeon examined the patient, the car accident victim was also involved in ski accident where he struck a tree going down-hill at 30 miles per hour, the initial causation opinion that the need for neck surgery was due to the fender-bender no longer sounds as reasonable. The point being that the quality of the opinion depends on his knowledge and truth of the underlying facts that the expert used to form his opinion.
This leads to the next issue with “expert opinions.” Each expert possesses different levels of knowledge and experience, even though there may be plenty of other experts in the same field. This is why when there is a medical issue in dispute in a legal proceeding, it is extremely likely if the matter gets to trial that both sides will have their own experts who reached different conclusions on the issue. It becomes a “battle of the experts” and ultimately it is up to the judge or jury to decide which expert is more credible. The point being that two qualified experts can arrive at completely opposite conclusions despite having access to the same set of underlying facts. This occurs literally every day, hundreds of times in courtrooms across America.
Therefore, whenever a good trial attorney cross examines one of these medical experts, they are going to dig into that expert’s personal biases or prejudices, their knowledge of the underlying facts, their reputation for truthfulness, prior inconsistent statements, and whether that opinion is consistent with that of others in the field. Once you dig into these issues, it almost always sheds new light on the expert’s opinion—for better or worse.
The legal profession has known how to keep expert opinions in proper perspective for decades. They are dime a dozen. Attorneys know which experts to use to support their cases and they know which ones to avoid. It’s because everyone knows these experts are hired hands and not gods. They are fallible, biased and often wrong. Courts know this, juries know this, the entire world pretty much used to understand this until COVID came along. Yes, experts are an important tool for fleshing out THE TRUTH, but they are not the ultimate arbiters of the truth. They are aids to others who are actually charged with determining what is true and making a decision based on this truth.
Application to the COVID-19 Religion
If a normal, sane person were to apply these principles and realities about experts to the COVID “crisis”, it is easy to see that the propaganda feed coming from mainstream news media, sports heroes, entertainment stars and “COVID Karens” across America can easily be refuted with contrary evidence and opinions. Yet, they will tell you they rely on “experts” and that the “experts” tell them what is THE TRUTH and therefore there can be no further discussion—only censorship of “conspiracy”.
That’s because, they claim, your evidence and expert opinions are nothing more than conspiracy theories. What’s the difference between an expert opinion and a conspiracy theory? No one really knows, often because those who throw around the “conspiracy theories” insults do not even know what a real conspiracy is. We are dealing with a severely under-educated public and completed compromised news media who simply are incapable both psychologically and intellectually to deal with real, complex problems and conflicting information.
And yet the COVIDists will insult you and degrade you—claiming you are not worthy of an opinion let alone having anyone listen to you because you are—God forbid—not an expert! “I listen to the experts!” they will tell you, implying that you do not. If you listen to the COVIDists carefully, you will think there are no other “experts” other than the ones they choose to listen to.
Sin darkens the intellect making opening the heart and mind of those who hate the truth quite difficult, especially when it will destroy their worldview and contradict their pseudo-religion. To fix this, with the aid of supernatural grace, we need to restore Western Civilization to America, and Christendom in particular, while bringing people back to Christ and real faith.
Until that happens, when discussing issues with others, keep the following principles in mind about experts:
- Make sure the expert is actually an expert on the subject at hand. E.g. is the annoying, narcissistic physician on social media who cannot stop bullying people into getting jabbed actually an expert in immunology or are they performing plastic surgery on movie stars?
- Always question the underlying facts an expert uses. E.g. are they basing their opinions on the studies that have been refuted or even apply to the question at hand? Are they relying on compromised/manipulated statistical data?
- Do they even tell you what data they rely on? Experts are known for speculating and even just making things up out of air, not based on any objective facts. They assume facts not in evidence, so to speak, or they simply ignore contrary evidence as if it does not exist.
- What conflicts of interest do these experts have? E.g. does the expert have financial interests in the pharmaceutical industry that could taint the expert’s objectivity? Does the expert in other ways personally benefit by convincing others their opinion is correct? Will they lose federal grants, prestige, or speaking engagements at high profile gatherings if they do not adopt a certain opinion?
- Find out if there are other experts who disagree, if so, what is basis for disagreement? Drill down on the basis of that disagreement. That is usually where the Truth can be found.
- Is the opinion even rational, logical and does it make sense? Are they trying to tell you 2+2=5? Or that male and female do not actually exist? If an expert tells you something that contradicts obvious reality, natural law or divine law, you rest assured the opinion is fundamentally flawed.
We have a duty to ask these questions every time some snowflake in the news media, government official or even our friends and family try to coerce us into reordering our lives about a cold virus, inject ourselves with gene manipulating medicine, shut down our businesses, etc. based on an “expert opinion.”
What ultimately matters is not what any expert thinks but what is THE TRUTH. As Christians and servants of The Truth, Christ the King, we are bound to seek and follow the Truth wherever He leads us, even if that reality is unpopular or inconvenient and contrary to popular expert opinion.