A Ph.D. Is All That's Required...

...To be considered an 'expert.'


We in the United States have come to believe that all wisdom is derived from a few privileged people who've obtained advanced degrees from a select group of 'prestigious' universities.


A recent article on Yahoo! illustrates this point very well:

"In 2020, the UN has projected that we will have 50 million environmental refugees," Cristina Tirado, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)."(Link)


This is the kind of blather we're exposed to on a daily basis in the 'main stream' media. It is the 'expert' opinion of a professor, citing research from the United Nations. Notice how the article makes you think Cristina works for the U.N., but she's just citing a projection given by the body. 


I went to the UCLA campus directory to see if I could find Cristina Tirado listed as a professor. As I suspected, she was not listed. I finally did find a listing for her, and it is a jackpot of information. In addition to not actually being a professor, the part that really sticks out is this:


"She has been contributing author of the Health Chapter of the 4th assessment report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)..."(Link)


The IPCC... Bingo! What do we know about the IPCC? Well, how about the fact that the whole climate change debate has been a fraud perpetrated by the IPCC itself. The organization's computers were hacked into, and the stolen e-mails revealed the entire edifice to be a giant fraud. Here's a New York Times article regarding the mess.


And for some more fun reading, just click here...


Every time you are exposed to an article citing 'expert' opinion, make sure to vet the sources because the journalists writing this garbage sure won't. 


Oh, I don't watch Fox, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, NBC or any other news outlet... I prefer to get my information independently. 


UPDATE: This was too good to pass up!