Their hiring comes after the #Trump admin dismissed hundreds of #scientists & #experts who had been compiling the #FederalGovernment’s flagship report on how climate change is affecting the country. The admin has also systematically removed mentions of #ClimateChange from govt websites while slashing federal #funding for research on #GlobalWarming.

#RFKJr, who founded an #AntiVaccine group, has long called for an investigation into the number of #vaccinations #children receive. Medical #experts say that Kennedy has falsely linked that increase to a rise of chronic disease, noting that more #vaccines are available now to combat #diseases & that his link has no basis in #evidence. Medical experts & the federal govt recommend the #HepatitisB #vaccine, because it prevents the #LiverDisease, which can be passed along at #birth.

@skry you twot, that means each human being in the world has two passwords to google, apple and facebook, fucking hell :D my two posts were already removed and i am just wondering about its credibility #f*** #fakenews #experts my ass

…#Journalists aren’t the only ones getting these messages. #ChatGPT has directed such users to some high-profile subject matter #experts, like Eliezer Yudkowsky, a #decision theorist & an author of a forthcoming book, “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.” Yudkowsky said #OpenAI might have primed ChatGPT to entertain the delusions of users by optimizing its #chatbot for “#engagement” — creating conversations that keep a #user hooked.

@tdp_org This is why people need to think about #qualifications instead of "charisma" or "likability".

In public service, public office, and law enforcement- people who have any brains want #intelligent #qualified #experts who have accomplished goals.

Like President Biden. VP Harris. President Obama.

John Kerry was boring. And highly qualified. I voted for him, not Bush.

#stupid people treat #elections like hs popularity contests.
That's how we got here.
Dumb votes for dumb.

In an April 16 internal email announcing the cancellation of the…report…Angelina LaRose, asst administrator in the #EIA’s office of #energy analysis, blamed the decision on the departure of so many staff #experts. >100 of the EIA’s 350 staff have left as a result of #firings or resignations, in the wake of “Fork in the Road” buyout offers from #ElonMusk’s #DOGE. “…we will not be releasing the IEO this year. This was a difficult decision based on the loss of key resources.”

Some ideas dear #jFriends and #SocialMedia #experts @Alison @hvdmeer @joomla ?

"I don't trust all experts. I go and do a journal article and get it published, and oftentimes my articles are calling into question other articles that other experts ... have written. So one of the things we do amongst experts is to challenge each other openly, often, and that's how we build knowledge. "

#JosephUscinski, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, 2024

https://natoandtheged.substack.com/p/the-system-is-rigged-conspiracy-theories

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The Death of Government Expertise

Why #Trump and #Musk are on a firing spree
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/career-civil-servant-end/681712/

" #DOGE isn’t really a dept... and it has little to do with saving money... The whole enterprise is an attack against civil servants & the very notion of apolitical #expertise...

Modern societies, as #Americans are soon to learn, cannot function without #experts in every field, especially the many thousands who work in #public service."

Populists are generally wary of #experts, especially those who work for the government, but #ElonMusk is no man of the people: He is the richest human being in the world, & he runs major companies that rely both on government-provided #expertise & significant government subsidies. As @anneapplebaum wrote, “Musk has made no attempt to professionally audit or even understand many of the programs being cut”—a willful indifference that gives away the game.