‘Experts’ deserve questions
As we move further into 2026 an undercurrent we hope continues to grow is questioning the “expert” class when it makes sweeping pronouncements and attempts to upend the American culture and way of life. One of the better things to come out of the Covid-19 fiasco was the slow realization that many if not most of those who were entrusted with telling the American people the truth opted, instead, to secure their sinecures, barter their knowledge into a power and control, and attempt to harm those who disagreed with their approaches.
This revelation came from the people in charge themselves, or by the emails and memoranda with which they cluttered their hard drives. Dr. Deborah Birx, along with Dr. Leonard Fauci used their credentials as a means to secure control of people, businesses and even the government itself, using what even they admit were specious and imaginative sleights of hand: six-feet distance, masks, 14 days to level the curve, etc.
Their credentials gave them the opportunity, and fear gave them the ceding of authority. Power is a heady thing, and we learned even “science” has its price when control is what is wanted. It served as a cautionary tale of what Progressive ideology is based: a credentialed class of experts who will benignly put their efforts toward the benefit of all. This is the basis of Socialist thought as well as Communist thought, using government to benefit all through the work of those who “know best.”
While Covid-19 is the worst example and the damage these experts have wrought is still undetermined, Progressive ideology is pervasive in other areas: security, academe, federal and state bureaus, etc. The problem with this cornerstone of this ideology, its missing understanding, is human nature itself.
We learned Drs. Fauci and Birx were not only making it up as they went along but did so for political reasons. Birx admitted it in interviews and memoirs.
Theirs is not the only example:
In the height of the 2020 election campaign, fifty-one “security experts” said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian information; many of these same experts insisted Donald Trump was a Russian asset, though they knew at the time it was a fiction originating in the Hillary Clinton campaign.
So-called climate experts claiming “science!” are still hanging onto the debunked ‘hockey stick” as proof of manmade climate change, even though satellite information has proven global temperatures have cooled over the last two years, last year at .3 degrees C. Why? Follow the money. Governments are invested in the “warming” narrative to gain more political control (see the European Union).
And credentialed experts will do logical handstands to deny biological sex in favor of trendy transgender nonsense.
Speaking of the European Union, this is an example, par excellence, of technocracy in action. And what is the biggest fear of technocrats? Free speech. And they are doing everything they can to curb speech and punish offenders.
Progressivism is not benign, and neither are the credentialed experts who man the offices and halls of power. These experts are and have shown themselves to be tempted by the same thing as their lesser lights: power, money, security, and authority.
In the 1970s a popular aphorism was “Question authority!” In the 2020s this should be changed to “Question Experts!”
Many times, “experts” and “authority” are the same thing.