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00:00So that is a good summary of Donald J. Trump, is that he takes a bulldozer to Overton Windows every single day.
00:06But it just, it had to happen. It just had to happen.
00:08And if you look at so many of the things that are happening on the public health side,
00:12I mean, you know, one of the criticisms that Bobby will always get,
00:15and I always think it's such bullsh**, excuse my language, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to say that.
00:19It's probably covering, you know, I apologize to everybody who's watching live on Fox News.
00:26Hopefully they were able to bleep that out.
00:27But anyway, is sometimes there's this attack where people say,
00:32well, you know, this or that conclusion is not supported by the science,
00:36or this or that conclusion is a conspiracy theory.
00:40And science, as practiced in its best form, is that if you disagree with it,
00:45then you ought to criticize it, and you ought to argue it against it,
00:49but you can't shut down the debate.
00:51And that really is, if you look at all of the big public health debates that we've had in this country,
00:57over the last 20 or 30 years, it doesn't bother me that they disagreed with something that I believed
01:02or disagreed with something you believed or any of you.
01:04It's that they tried to silence the people who were saying things that were outside the Overton window.
01:09And as we found out the hard way over the last few years,
01:12it was very often the people who were outside the Overton window
01:15who were actually right, and all the experts were wrong.
01:18I had a conversation with Marty McCary the other day,
01:29and he reminded me that over the Royal Society,
01:32the building, the portal for the Royal Society in London,
01:35which is the oldest scientific society in the world and the most prestigious,
01:39it says, question everything.
01:42And that is, you know, that's what science is.
01:45It's recognizing that convention is often wrong
01:49and that the people who make advances on science
01:55almost 100% of the times are people who are willing
01:58to challenge orthodoxies and advance heterodoxies
02:03and talk about new ways of thinking.
02:05And that, you know, the very ossified bureaucracies
02:10that now make up the so-called medical establishment
02:15are fortified against that kind of change.
02:18That's absolutely right.
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