The warning was stark. At issue was a privileged class that has long dictated policy despite countervailing public opinion. At issue, the luminary warned, is nothing short of democracy itself. No, it was not the continued rallies of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., VT) to “fight oligarchy.” It was Justice Clarence Thomas rallying his colleagues to fight technocracy, or government by experts. He warned against allowing “elite sentiment” to “distort and stifle democratic debate.” Yet, the story is even more profound of an elite class which succumbed to the Icarian gene and fell to Earth due to hubris and excess.
In his concurrence in United States v. Skrmetti, a case upholding Tennessee’s ban on adolescent transgender treatments, Thomas called for his colleagues to stand against an “expert class” that has dictated both policy and legal conclusions in the United States.
The reference to “experts” is often used to insulate an opinion as self-evidently true on a given question when they speak as a group. It distinguishes the informed from the casual; the certifiably authoritative from the merely interested. Yet, what constitutes an “expert” can be little more than an advanced degree, and the “overwhelming opinion of experts” can be little more than groupthink.
Thomas warned his colleagues that “[t]here are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance.”
Indeed, those “good reasons” have become increasingly obvious to those outside of the Beltway. The public saw experts line up during the pandemic to support mandatory uses of surgical masks, shutting down schools, and requiring the ruinous six-foot rule of separation. Many of these rules were later found lacking in scientific support. At the same time, dissenting experts, including the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration, were blacklisted, censored, or fired for challenging these views.
We have seen the same orthodoxy on issues ranging from gender dysphoria to COVID measures.
In his concurrence, Thomas lashed out at the virtual mantra in court papers and the media of an “overwhelming medical consensus” in favor of transitioning children. This is often cited as the conclusive judgment of experts as opposed to citizens who overwhelmingly oppose treatments for children, including castration or surgical removal of genitalia. Thomas insisted that “so-called experts have no license to countermand the ‘wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices.’”
For decades, citizens largely identified the government with bringing modern approaches to programs eliminating long-standing social ills from poverty to illiteracy to inequality. Roughly 100 years ago, the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt transformed the government’s role in American life. A generation of experts brought new ideas of electrification, education, and economics to the country.
This veneration was furthered by Kennedy’s assemblage of “the best and the brightest” and Johnson’s “Great Society” reformers.
The courts later followed with greater and greater deference afforded to these experts, including the establishment of the “Chevron doctrine” insulating agency decisions from substantial judicial review. The Supreme Court ruled that courts were poorly equipped to second-guess the expertise of agency experts.
The Reagan Revolution challenged those assumptions. Reagan famously told voters that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
Over the years, the mystique took on a more menacing aspect for many in the country as they watched academic and scientific groups become more advocates than experts. There seemed to be a shift from making for a better life to making us better people through progressive social agendas.
The result has been a dramatic change in trust for higher education and, by extension, the supremacy of the expert class. According to Gallup, only a third of Americans today have great confidence in higher education and roughly the same number have little or no confidence. That is a drop of over twenty percent in the last ten years.
Other polling shows drops in the trust for state and local public health officials as well as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The decline of the expert class can be traced to the changes in higher education over the last couple of decades. As I discuss in my book The Indispensable Right, an orthodoxy has taken hold of most universities with a purging of conservative, libertarian, and dissenting faculty. Within these ideological echo chambers, appointments, publications, and grants often seem to turn on conclusions that favor political agendas.
Over the years, dissenting faculty members have been forced out of scientific and academic organizations for challenging preferred conclusions on subjects ranging from transgender transitions to COVID-19 protections to climate change. Some were barred from speaking at universities or blacklisted for their opposing views.
As shown during COVID, many of the exiled experts were ultimately proven correct in challenging the efficacy of surgical masks or the need to shut down our schools and businesses. Scientists moved like a herd of lemmings on the origin of the virus, crushing those who suggested that the most likely explanation is a lab leak (a position that federal agencies would later embrace).
Scientists have worked with the government in suppressing dissenting views. At the end of last year, The Wall Street. Journal released a report on how the Biden administration suppressed dissenting views supporting the lab leak theory, as dissenting scientists were blacklisted and targeted.
When experts within the Biden Administration found that the lab theory was the most likely explanation for COVID-19, they were told not to share their data publicly and were warned about being “off the reservation.”
British pediatrician Hilary Cass published a review for NHS England that cast doubt on gender-identity treatments for children and young people. The research reportedly led to an aggressive campaign by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) to suppress the results.
The gravitational pull of social agendas has overwhelmed not just scientific judgment but common sense. For example, there has been a push to treat gender as a socially constructed myth.
A University of Pittsburgh anthropology professor declared that you cannot tell the gender of an individual from their bones – a widely ridiculed assertion.
The editor-in-chief of Scientific American Laura Helmuth made her own contribution to gender ideology by tweeting out a statement with a 2017 article in Audubon Notebook stating “White-throated sparrows have four chromosomally distinct sexes that pair up in fascinating ways. P.S. Nature is amazing[.] P.P.S. Sex is not binary.”
Various experts cried fowl and noted that her point was ideologically driven and scientifically absurd. (Helmuth later resigned after posting a profanity-laden attack on social media calling Trump voters “fascists” and bigots).
In many cases, dissenting views on social or political issues are treated as disqualifying for any research.
At Cornell, professors signed a letter denouncing “informed commentary” critical of violent protests as racist.
In 2020, Harald Uhlig, the senior editor of the prestigious Journal of Political Economy and the Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, criticized Black Lives Matter and the movement to defund the police. The response was a campaign to remove Uhlig from the Journal. Writers like economist Paul Krugman insisted that he was now “yet another privileged white man” attacking the”less fortunate.”
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center removed Associate Professor of Medicine Norman Wang from his position as Program Director of the Electrophysiology Fellowship after he wrote an article in a peer-reviewed journal questioning the use of affirmative action in medical schools admissions. (Later, the Supreme Court would declare such use of race as unconstitutional race discrimination).
Another controversy arose in 2024 just before the Supreme Court considered access to mifepristone, one of two drugs used for abortions by mail. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk relied on two studies that showed harm from the use of the pill.
The Sage journal Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology was widely criticized by abortion advocates for publishing the studies. One month before the oral argument, the studies were conveniently retracted and a review published that found the conclusions “invalidated in whole or in part.”
Justices and judges will often take favorable studies as gospel in supporting their legal conclusions. In her dissent in the University of North Carolina affirmative action case, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson triggered a controversy in citing a 2020 study from a friend-of-the-court brief by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Jackson claimed that race-based admissions “saves lives” because having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood of the survival of high-risk Black babies. The claim of the brief and the flawed methodology of the study was shredded by critics.
The fact is that it is easy to produce near uniformity of experts since most universities now run from the left to the far left. The combination of biased hiring practices has left most departments with few or no conservative faculty members. As a result, the media can report that liberal positions are supported overwhelmingly by “experts.”
For example, it is now common for the media to report signed letters or petitions of law professors denouncing conservative positions or rulings. It rarely mentions that most law schools have only a couple of conservative faculty members. It is like getting a pro-papal petition from the College of Cardinals. Nevertheless, the coverage leaves the impression that opposing views on transgenderism, gun rights, or other subjects are absurd and rejected by virtually all “experts.”
Both the courts and the public, however, appear to be losing their awe for the expert class. The Supreme Court recently tossed the Chevron Doctrine and called for courts to resume their prior scrutiny of agency decisions.
None of this means that courts or the public should disregard science or experts. Indeed, many experts still follow core principles of unbiased inquiry and discourse. However, good science requires open inquiry and a diversity of viewpoints. Citizens are rejecting science by plebiscite, the self-authenticating petitions where academics purported to speak for an expert class.
The expert class lost the public when they replaced objectivity with orthodoxy. No matter how many experts claim that gender is a social myth, the public is not likely to dispense with reality. The rise and fall of the expert class is a story of the costs of arrogance and excess. Higher education has created a privileged class of social warriors who abandoned core principles of neutrality and objectivity in research. It is an Icarian generation of scholars who flew too close to the sun and fell to Earth in the eyes of the public.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University where he teaches a course on the Supreme Court. He is the best-selling author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” and the forthcoming Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution (Simon & Schuster 2026).
”Its not what we don’t know, its what we know, that just ain’t so.” ”I told orville and I told wilbur and now I’m telling you, that thing will never fly.” ”Never tell me the odds.” ”If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88MPH, you’re going to see some serious ^^*4.”
Copernicus died for his heretical sins. Him and his telescope. We all know the earth is flat, now DON’T we?
Education vs. indoctrination.
Bert33,
Assuming the AI isn’t lying, here’s what actually happened with Copernicus and his “Heresy”:
— From ChatGPT —
No, **Nicolaus Copernicus was not killed for being a heretic**. In fact, he **died of natural causes** in 1543 at the age of 70.
—
### Here’s the true story:
* **Copernicus** was a Polish astronomer and Catholic cleric who proposed the **heliocentric model** of the universe — the idea that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun.
* This was revolutionary at the time, as the dominant belief (backed by the Church and Aristotle/Ptolemy) was that the **Earth was the center** of the universe.
—
### Important context:
* Copernicus **delayed publishing** his theory, likely to avoid controversy and criticism.
* His seminal work, *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium* (“On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres”), was **published in 1543**, the year of his death.
* Tradition holds that he **saw a copy of it on his deathbed**, just before he died of a stroke.
—
### Was he persecuted by the Church?
* Not during his lifetime.
* His ideas **did face resistance**, but more **from academics** and conservative scholars than from Church authorities at first.
* It wasn’t until **Galileo** began **publicly championing heliocentrism** in the early 1600s that the **Catholic Church officially banned Copernicus’s work** (in 1616) — more than 70 years after his death.
—
### Summary:
> Copernicus was **not executed** or persecuted as a heretic. He lived a relatively quiet scholarly life and died peacefully. The **real conflict with the Church** over heliocentrism came **decades later**, centered on **Galileo**, not Copernicus.
–End ChatGPT —
Anymore these days I read stuff people post and am compelled to look it up. Not becauser I believe folks are lying, but because I’m curous to know the actual story. Heck, sometimes what I find out even challenges my understanding of things.
Now, where transgenderism is concerned, we have millennia of experience which tells us there are, in fact, only two biological genders, male and female. The rest is, in man’s “infinite wisdom”, an attempt to “solve” a problem, but failing to recognize this nugget of wisdom — “Just because we can do a thing, it doesn’t necessarily follow that we must do that thing.” Can we? Yes. Should we? No, there are better, far less destructive ways.
When it comes to “expert”, one only needs to understand the “etymology” of the word expert. Then, you will never believe an “expert” again, nor, wish to be accused of being one! Let’s break down the components of the word “expert” and the meaning of those components. The first part, “ex”. “Ex” is a has been. Next comes “pert” which is truncated from the word “spurt”. Spurt, is a drip, under pressure. Now, you understand that an “expert” is really, a Has Been Drip Under Pressure.
Anonymous,
X is also representative of the unknown quantity in Algebra, etc.
Ergo, Expert = Unknown drip under pressure.
Your breakdown of the word, and mine added, should clarify things for anyone wondering if it’s wise to trust an X Spurt. 😀
Educated gangsters are bullying the general public with ideological founded propaganda and orthodoxy.
Common sense dictates the intellectual usurpers have dug themselves into a rut of inanity and insanity.
The intellectual rot is pervasive, far beyond the cases cited. Many figures have noted that Alzheimer’s research is mired in blatant fraud and deceit. Much of this is documented in Charles Piller’s “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s”. Inn recent years five hundred published papers in scientific medical journals have been retracted. To no one’s surprise little advance has been made in medical therapies despite tens of billions of research since the theory and studies themselves turns out to be fraudulent.
The same holds true of nuclear fusion energy research where federal funds are largely channeled into dead-end tokamak devices. Once of the worst offenders is cosmology. The Big Bang fails 90% of predictions yet those who challenge the theory face blackball and termination of funding.
“professing themselves to be wise, they became fools…”
I seldom watch the news, my mind is at rest. The air waves are filled with garbage. Turn it all off and sleep well at night. Besides, the truth is revealed to everyone if you will open your mind.
At different times in history experts promoted unhealthy dogma!
Bloodletting.
Delivering babies without washing hands!
Now, worldwide ismutilating children’s genitalia and clitorectomies!
Child bed fever originated in thew late 18th Century when doctors fought to take over a profitable tradition from Midwives. However, midwives washed their hands, and did not has ready access to other sick patients in a hospital. It was not until about 1840 that doctors noticed that contaimnation was causing do many sicknesses in maternity wards. Experts! Phew!
Democrats are losing voting blocks left and right. The “FDR Won The War” voters have all died of and pretty much the same with the Korean war voters. Private union membership is at it’s lowest ever and the money is drying up from them. Minority voters are finally seeing the damage that progressive agendas are doing to their lives and voting Republican in greater numbers each and every election.
So the Democrats end up with a coalition of well to do progressives, illiterates, and students who have not discovered how badly they are being screwed yet. So in order to stop this bleeding of voters the Democrats have embraced the now de-funked NAMBLA philosophy of making legal minor children accessible for sex by adults. The first step we have already seen with the transgender movement. After that it will be a move by democrats to lower the age of majority to 13 or even lower and to make it legal for consenting sex between children and adults most of which are male.
The fact that political parties are private entities should be enough to outlaw the democrat party forever or to sue them into bankruptcy for what they are trying to do to our country.
The Financial Times reports Iran moved its uranium stockpile just before Trump’s order to bomb nuclear sites within the country, according to preliminary intelligence reports given to European officials.
But don’t worry, nothing to see here. What are the odds of Iran building a dirty bomb and say sewing it off near Mar a Logo? Or Miami, or Long Beach, or Baltimore, or anywhere else in the U.S.
Yea good move bozo, you just pissed off county with lots of fissile material. They may not make a nuclear bomb, But how about a dirty bomb.
That is what you get when you have a dumb sh-t running the country.
Let’s say the trucks were there to place concrete on the vents. Then what do you say?
BT so what ?
First – Why are we to beleive this ?
Next lets say they moved their 60% enrivhed Uranium – Where ?
They do not have anywhere as safe as Fordow,
Further do you really think the US and Israel were not watching eery step of the way and do not know where it was moved to ?
The reports I have seen say Iran moved things INTO Fordow just before it got hit.
Did they move the centrefuges too ?
Without the centrefuges they can not take the next step.
Finally – Nearly all of Iran’s centrefuges were either hit or they were destroyed by sudden loss of power.
So long as the Ayatollah’s remain in power – Iran will seek nukes.
The question is NOT will Iran keep trying, but how long before they are bombed again.
They’ll buy them from arms dealers. The US will become a mercenary army for hire.
They have been able to make dirty bombs for years.
The voice of reason. The threat of “dirty bombs” can exist just about anywhere. If Iran somehow managed to move radiological materials, it is easy enough to track the activity. Mr.BabyTDS is a fear-porn-star.
What about the neutron bomb?
What about IED’s?
What about suicide bombers?
What about public knifings and beheadings?
What about imprisonment and torture of political dissidents?
What about the X-Plan-demic, and WHO’s world health-dictatorship?
And what about, and what about, and what about????
Man! How do you even live with your neurotic-psychotic wokey-doom and TDS?
This kind of gibberish is what happens when you hate Trump so much that you’re rooting for the Iranians. How much more would it take for you to actively aid them to smuggle a bomb into the US? Just to prove your “point?” I’d suggest that you’re there now.
Reality: Israel> 200 nuclear bombs
Iran> 0 nuclear bombs.
Iran deserves as much security as Apartheid, Supremacist Israel does. A nuclear armed Iran is the only way to peace in the Middle East.
It sounds like someone dropped you on your head.
If you are serious, you are a demented fool.
Amazing that the Israelis, who have been watching this site intently for years, and whose intelligence services have spies everywhere in the program, missed this little detail. And only a Jew-hating, anti-Israel, anti-Trump financial rag got the story. The only thing that makes this fable believable is your irrational hatred of President Trump. To everyone else, it doesn’t even pass the smell test. Troll harder.
“They may not make a nuclear bomb . . .”
You buried the lede.
Baby
The Financial Times reports.
This is a huge mistake by you baby. I pretty sure the Financial times knows zip about nukes or how they are made.
What a fool you really are
Oh stop worrying. Israel will be nuked eventually and everything in the world will be peaceful. It’s the Iranian dream. Dreams do come true.
What’s your dream, Mr. Baby? ☺.
..you can be sure it’s a lot of fake news aka baloney if it came from the MSM (‘Financial Times’ qualifies…) … proof is having a half cocked piece of baloney quoting the MSM…..
your ignorance is overwhelming and your statement proves, “you can’t fix stupid!” Jimmy C
You are an example of what this article was describing. A woke idiot who hates Trump and then states a conclusion. You don’t know whether the uranium stockpile was moved, or whether you are being manipulated by defense establishment to launch yet another nation building exercise or whether the NYT or CNN, might be wrong. The idiot running the country has brought illegal immigration down to nil and has gotten Europe to contribute 5% to their own defense. He has engineered a cease fire and just signed a tariff agreement with China. The article points out that the era of drawing a conclusion based on your own deranged bias is over.
Oh yeah the “financial times”………speaking of the expert class.
Repeating old news baby
Try something new
Did everybody order the trump phone made in the USA?
Oops, turns out it is not USA made. Oh well, just another lie in the billions already served.
Did you ask President Harris if she was getting one?
“The warning was stark. At issue was a privileged class …”
Thomas correctly identified the problematic dilemma. It is the “Heeding-of-Experts” to which you hand over control when you ‘heed their advice’.
For example: When Elon Musk and Others (Trump Cabinet) formulated DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency*¹), They based their decisions on the advice of Elon Musk, who as we well know is a Maverick whom rides the coattails of Others, a Serial-Entrepreneur, looking for that next shift in the Marketplace.
The past 150+ days of this new Administration have been very interesting to watch Musk ply his trade (Spock says Fascinating!).
He brought together a team of ‘DOGE’ Technicians into the various appendages of the Government and performed an standard Venture Capitalist maneuver called Blitzscaling (Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh), to identify the: redundancies, waste, inefficient processes, etc. … that could be eliminated to make the system more efficient (cost-effective).
Simultaneously letting in his “PayPal Mafia”*² partner from their PayPal days Peter Thiel & his co-founder Alex Karp of Palantir Technologies, to build new systems (Coded by Palantir AIP – Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform) for the Government.
*³ Thiel, a longtime Musk ally, has spent years trying to dismantle government agencies and shift their functions into private hands. His company, Palantir, has been one of the biggest private-sector recipients of government contracts, handling data surveillance and intelligence operations for the federal government.
Musk’s gamble with Trump may have backfired on him, in that his attempt to circumvent the The Power Law (Sebastian Mallaby) of the VC game, did not return dividends to Tesla Auto, as they lay burning in parking lots across America. This hurts twice as bad, as the Chinese Auto manufactures expand market shares Globally. Musk still has SpaceX, whist Thiel lies comfortably in ‘the catbird seat’.
To be fair the Government also relies on experts from: Microsoft (Bill Gates et.al.), Oracle (Larry Ellison), Jeff Bezos (Amazon AWS),
The same has been true for; Military Industrial Experts, Medical Industrial Experts, and Intelligence Industrial Experts. …
(They all do it – that’s how you stay being a Multi-Billionaire – Budget after Budget).
So this is the grey-area of the “Embodiment of ‘soft corruption’” that permeates the orthodoxies of Capitol Hill. Expert advice from the K-Street Pythia *⁴, of which the ‘Expert’s Oracle’ eshoo the divine communication delivered in response to a petitioner’s request (i.e.: Congressional Committees).
It all has the whiff of “predatory inclusion,” a phrase coined by Princeton scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in her 2019 Pulitzer Prize
finalist book Race for Profit.
Wherein you will also find Justice Clarence Thomas’s warning in action, in that, these Expert Oracles also speak to the seat of prophecy.
As we witnessed in the Covid Era and endure Endless Wars.
The moral of Thomas’s missive: When it comes to Expert Oracles ~ ‘Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid!’ and ‘a Penny Saved, is a Penny earned’.
(Now if we could only get Congress to heed that advice.)
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Heed
intransitive verb
: to pay attention
transitive verb
: to give consideration or attention to : mind
[Link] merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heed
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*¹ United States DOGE Service
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Efficiency
*² PayPal Mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
*³ Thiel, a longtime Musk ally, has spent years trying to dismantle government agencies and shift their functions into private hands. His company, Palantir, has been one of the biggest private-sector recipients of government contracts, handling data surveillance and intelligence operations for the federal government.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-peter-thiel-aligned-150849533.html
*⁴ the Pythia
The Oracle was the direct link to the god Apollo. Priests at Delphi were often men but the Oracle, called the Pythia
Kudos Jonathan
Beep beep boop, AI
George Washington was the Zelensky of his time, pleading for help from the French.
Isn’t that how sausage is made?
George Washington did not take millions from the French to enrich himself and his cronies.
He was also a soldier before the Revolution…
unlike Z’s awesome pre-presidential experience in governance.
Max Weber discussed many of the issues raised in two lectures: “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation” in 1917 and 1919. Worth a read. In the Arthashastra is the quote, “There is only one Division of the Sciences and that is Politics and the reason is that all the Sciences begin and end with Politics.” 200 BC
re: experts, I received the NEJM issue today and it has a timely review article on measles for physicians and researchers. It is worth reading but from my perspective it was a missed opportunity. Given that the NEJM is one of those “expert” peer review medical journals, the publishers chose this topic for a specific reason: to convince physicians with vaccine hesistancy to get children vaccinated against measles. IMO, they failed. The NEJM review also has a few errors which is unacceptable especially because is from the “experts” at NEJM. The section on HIV is inaccurate and dated. It is shocking that NEJM, given the importance of this topic today, would not do a more thorough job in explaining why the measles vaccine sometimes fails so as to convince hesistant parents why they should opt for the vaccine anyways. Physicians need to push back on these parents with reason, science and logic. It is not the fault of the measles vaccine but rather of the individual’s immune system, and explaining the latter is complex, time consuming but necessary. Fauci and Collins could have used COVID to educate Americans on the complexity of the immune system. Instead, like the following NEJM article, they were stuck on an old paradigm: antibodies. There is far far more to the immune system than just antibodies.
Theh NEJM article is a free link so readers can review the article for themselves and look for the errors:
Measles 2025
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2504516
A far more thorough and honest science review article on the same topic was published in 2015 in the respected Trends in Molecular Medicine (TMM). The principles mentioned in the TMM article as to why the measles vaccine might fail have been mentioned by me on this forum many times re: COVID deaths, COVID vaccines, influenza, HIV and other immune phenomena. The TMM article mentions polymorphisms in: HLA genes (bridge from innate to adaptive immune system) and host proteins, innate immune system pattern recognition receptors, cytokine & receptors and more. These are durable and crucial topics of discussion, but completely ignored by Fauci, Collins, et al during COVID, and also ignored by NEJM in 2025.
The TMM authors did not need to declare themselves as experts. Their scientific analysis declared it. NEJM did not.
Variability in Humoral Immunity to Measles Vaccine: New Developments
It was anticipated that a two-dose MMR vaccination program would lead to substantial reductions in measles morbidity and measles elimination (Box 1); however, various studies have approximated that 2–10% of individuals vaccinated with two MMR doses may not develop or sustain protective measles humoral immunity, allowing a gradual accumulation of individuals susceptible to infection and subsequently, the occurrence of viral outbreaks [2–4, 6–10, 12, 13].
Recent genetic association and replication studies implicate HLA alleles, CD46 and other genetic variants of innate pattern recognition receptors, cytokine/cytokine receptors, as well as antiviral effector and signaling genes in the regulation of humoral immunity….
Trends. Genetic drivers of measles vaccine-induced antibody responses.
2–10% of individuals immunized with two Measles Mump Rubella (MMR) vaccine doses may not have protective measles antibody titers.
Variability in humoral immune responses to measles vaccine is highly heritable (88.5%)
SNP associations in non-HLA genes, together with HLA alleles, may explain ~30% of the inter-individual variability in antibody titers after measles vaccination.
Several class I and class II HLA alleles, as well as the HLA-B7 supertype have been associated with significant differences in antibody titers following two administrated doses of measles-containing vaccine in human subjects.
The measles vaccine (MV) receptor (CD46, SLAM), pattern recognition receptor genes (DDX58, TLR2, TLR4, TLR5, TLR7) and antiviral/signaling (TRIM5, VISA) genes have been associated with inter-individual differences in antibody responses after measles vaccination.
Cytokine (IL12B, IFNA1, IL4, IL6) and cytokine receptor (IL8RA, IL2RB) genes have also been associated with inter-individual differences in antibody titers after measles vaccination.
Haralambieva, I.H., et al. (2015). Variability in humoral immunity to measles vaccine: new developments. Trends in molecular medicine, 21(12), pp.789-801. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4679650/
I tend to think of it as being more Janusian than Icarian.
Ms Autopen didn’t know if Biden authorized the documents she signed.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/06/26/biden-admin-official-admits-she-didnt-know-if-autopen-orders-came-from-president/
Maybe time to undo some EOs and also judges appointed by autopen.
#. Yes, the DOJ will clear it up. Uses of the autopen are limited to or congress can limit it?
That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
Retro the autopens of Biden.
Retro abortion.
And retro and abrogate everything Lincoln did subsequent to his unconstitutional denial of secession—of course, reprehensible slavery excepted—starting with Karl Marx’s “Reconstruction Amendments,” and put America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights—survival of the merit-ist!
Look at pardons, EOs and judicial appointments as if they were a Last Will and Testament. Would the Will pass muster if the testator were incompetent and the Will signed with an Autopen by a clerk who didn’t know what the testator’s wishrs really were?
It’s time for the leftists on this blog to ask for forgiveness by supporting what follows. Biden and some others of his administration should be put in a cave, never again to see the light of day.:
Exclusive | Migrant kids trafficked to pedophiles under Biden being rescued by ICE: Tom Homan
“Thousands” of migrant children who disappeared after being smuggled across the US-Mexico border under the Biden administration have been rescued from grim fates such as being sex-trafficked to pedophiles, according to border czar Tom Homan — who revealed that a 14-year-old pregnant girl was found living with adult men just two weeks ago.
“There were 300,000 missing children under the last administration,” said Homan. “We’ve found thousands of them … We rescued victims of sex trafficking [and] two weeks ago, we rescued a 14-year-old that was already pregnant, living with adult men …
“We rescued some victims of forced labor. We found children working on ranches and chicken farms, not going to school, but enslaved labor in the United States of America …
https://nypost.com/2025/06/25/us-news/migrant-kids-trafficked-to-pedophiles-under-biden-are-being-rescued-by-ice-border-czar-tom-homan-tells-pod-force-one/?utm_campaign=devineonline&utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20250626&lctg=62680bbe38a279b1870b18c5&utm_term=NYP%20-%20Devine%20Online
Yes, and Rashida tlaib will point out how horrible it is but those things always go on. They’re part of life.
I’m thrilled to hear of children being rescued from slave labor conditions. I would be more thrilled to see their captors/employers sentenced to 30-50 years.
If we are honest, we should admit that some on this blog share the mindset of child traffickers. The result is the same whether they defend them openly or hide behind excuses while they demonstrate their support.
Thomas and Turley are members of, and prone to all of the vices of, the “expert class” which they denounce. How can we get certified dopes into the positions necessary to reign in all of these experts?
If you want dopes, you can keep voting for your Democrats. Nobody ever accused failed President Biden of being particularly smart, in fact, his own Delaware neighbor called him the biggest idiot that he ever met. Then there’s word-salad Harris, the less said the better. Mazie Hirono and Patty Murray routinely fight for the title of dumbest Senator. Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor are total jokes and lightweights compared to someone like Clarence Thomas. The list goes on and on.
How you ask? By mindlessly voting for more Mamdanis: the youth-vote via emotional-indoctrination disguised as “higher education,” swallowing their lies and disinformation in the childish dream of Utopian Society. When you have your way, Anon, the ‘expert class” won’t just have vices you don’t like, they’ll own all the boots on your neck. Look in the mirror to see one of the “certified-dopes.”
Some young people see it as a way to take property that they can’t afford because the rich have locked them out by price.
While your statement is true, and the problem is difficult, the answer is still NOT radical socialist “resistance.” But isn’t it just like immature and inexperienced youth to be impatient, and sanction the worst options for easy outs?
There are economic cycles, hard times, [yes, many of them caused by the crimes of the rich], and many of the those crimes do not see their full impact (2008, i.e., “too big to fail”), till much later.
This union is definitely imperfect, but we still have the best and most successful political system ever known to humanity. To throw it out, in favor of a system [socialism] that has proven to cause even greater poverty and death is pure adolescent reprisal without wisdom….
Well, the answer to that dilemma is not to covet, bear false witness, and steal; it is simple: Get rich!
“. . . the rich have locked them out by price.”
I can’t afford an Aston Martin because the rich have locked me out. Can I just go take one from a dealership? Or do I need a socialist politician to do the stealing for me?
The “lock-out by price” has ALWAYS existed, and the selfish elite “you have always with you,” but dilemmas provide means for introspection, moral pluck, and entrepreneurial spirit. Today’s youth rarely possess any of these qualities: they would make the world a better place by handouts and chaos, and none of these methods provide qualitative change. Destruction, the breach of U.S. transcendence, will come at the hands of the young and stupid. * Raise the voting age to 35!
Karoline Leavitt gives a priceless and profound lesson everyday to Aunt Jemima’s great-great-great-granddaughter.
The US runs like clockwork. It’s safe and affordable and freedom rings. It’s low crime and police really do hang out at donut shops. Catching a flight is like catching a taxi. It’s a wonderful place.
Turning off the media should bring peace. NEVER EVER have I heard such screeching and complaining and people just willfully committing crimes. Just turn them off.
What an awful place Buraq. Creatures made just to annoy. Death by annoyance is a new one.
The Constitution should be plainly read as the common man would read it. You’ve piled the 14th until it’s beams are sagging and broken. It’s a period piece. It’s dead.