Want more proof Elon Musk is scientifically illiterate?

[misanthrope]

Apartheid Clyde swallowed the Dire wolf de-extinction story hook, line and sinker, then trumpeted it out to his teeming hordes of suckers. That story has obvious flaws in it -- changing a tiny percentage of Grey wolf genome doesn't suddenly morph the entire genome into Dire wolf DNA -- that most any freshman science student can spot.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-160874469

Musk is a charlatan.

[Haggard Celine]

1. Too many people care about

what rich people think. Americans do, especially. They think that rich people's ability to make gobs of money translates into special knowledge about virtually any topic.

Americans need better advice than what Musk and Trump can provide. Those two don't even know the right people to hire to answer general questions. It's sad and disgusting to see our country going down the tubes, but we're doing it to ourselves.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Spot on ! We've made businessmen into folk heroes, a truly pathological turn in our culture.

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime." Yeah, I know it's not an accurate quote, but it's ... well ... truthful, even if not accurate.

[markodochartaigh]

4. I've been a registered nurse since 1983.

When I was first starting out I saw hospital management in the process of changing from being doctors and nurses to being MBA's. They said that "if you can manage a McDonald's, you can manage a hospital". I doubt that that is true, but I'm not sure because I don't think that most of the hospital administrators that I met in the last few decades could manage a McDonald's. At any rate we can see what forty years of that attitude has produced.

And one thing that I have heard over and over from new management is "I'm going to teach you how to do more with less, and enjoy it!" They must drill them on that in management school.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. A lot of what has happened to hospitals mirrors what has happened to colleges and universities.

More money for upper management, none to spare for permanent employment for the people who actually do the work. Lots of temp and part-time employees with limited benefits.

The idea that a center of learning, or healing, should be run like a business is one of the worst ideas in the entire history of civilization. Making a buck is not the be-all and end-all of life, except to a few pathological wealth hoarders, who are trying to remake every institution in our society according to their own unbalanced priorities.

[markodochartaigh]

7. Exactly.

The major public hospital for which I worked was spending one third of all the money that they took in on administration. This was at a time when all rn's were suddenly classified as exempt and we had to work unpaid overtime, and even if we worked a full extra shift it was straight time.

In the mid 90's the hospital budgeted $120,000 for wheelchair transport, because up until then nurses, aides, family members or whoever transported the patients to x-ray or wherever. $90,000 went to a manager with an MBA and the other $30,000 went to pay part-time college students to do the transportation. I happened to know about the details because our unit manager's supervisor was the new manager's sister-in-law.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. A long time ago there was a Congressional hearing about the safety of Alar on apples

For some reason the Congress critters breathlessly hung on every word of a prominent (beautiful) actress, as if she somehow had as much or more knowledge on the topic than the doctors and scientists testifying.

[ailsagirl]

2. No proof needed. He's also emotionally bankrupt. Pathetic n/t

[hlthe2b]

8. The MSM likewise swallowed it hook, line & sinker. I saw an accurate story very early on, rolled my eyes at

what would undoubtedly follow (and boy was I right)... The lack of scientific understanding is so widespread now, but the decimation of science and medical editors means even some of the "best" remaining media sources spew out the same absolute bullshit. Naturally, "X" feeds it, but it is not just "X"...

[John1956PA]

9. The RW relished the thought of a resurrected white-colored, superior vicious species. n/t

[RJ-MacReady]

10. I have long thought

Elon Musk is an idiot and not even close to being a genius or even intelligent.