Justin and Mark Cuban go One-on-One
Cuban has some ideas for Elon Musk's Twitter 2.0 that are very, very bad
If you’re a longtime reader of Rational Ground and a certified member of Team Reality (aka, you’re not now wearing a mask anywhere) then you have probably forgotten more about Covid than more people actually know right now.
Mark Cuban would be in the latter group.
Mark Cuban, star of “Shark Tank” and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, weighed in with a proposal to Elon Musk on how to deal with “medical info and mis-information” on Twitter 2.0.
Sadly, Mark had TURNED OFF comments on his tweet, so I tweeted aloud:
Hey @mcuban - why don’t you let people chime in on this terrible idea instead of blocking comments? Letting licensed physicians set policy for the last 3 years is what got us in this mess. They were wrong on almost everything.
That didn’t seem to sit well with him:
I was puzzled because I didn’t mention ANYTHING about licensing or med school or boards or residencies. Instead, I was reflecting what I wrote in my book, Gone Viral:
We gave the keys of the kingdom to people who hadn’t seen a patient in thirty years. These were politicians, not actively working doctors. They certainly were not policy experts. They were entrenched bureaucrats.
I replied to Mark:
credentials ≠ truth. Also, consensus ≠ truth.
Then I rattled off my now infamous list:
If we were to give 1000 people a “vote” in rubber-stamping approval for a medical policy - we would be masking and mandating FORVER.
Others chimed in:
This follower knows the truth:
The debate raged on and El Gato entered the fray:
it's amazing to me that even after this number of uncontestably catastrophic fails, the cult of expert worship persists, but is would seem there is just no extinguishing the authoritarian flame in some folks.
My good friend Dr. Jay B. threw his 2 cents in:
Mark is very touchy:
The debate rages on!
well done Justin!
Dr Jay Bhattacharya is a hero. The great Barrington Declaration has been fully vindicated.
Good grief! I'm sure one could find 1000 Twitter "experts" who believe the earth is flat, airplanes can't fly, and cigarette smoking is good for your health. Does that mean those things are true? As Dr. B wisely notes, "truth is not determined by democracy."