If you read this blog regularly you know that I like to keep track of people who try to think objectively. Those who do are hard to pigeonhole into the usual categories such as liberal or conservative, global warmer or warming skeptic, true news or fake news, and so on. Some of the people on the list below, such as Tucker Carlson and Bill Maher, clearly fall into one category or another. Carlson is a conservative while Maher is liberal. However, both of them sometimes take unexpected positions on some subjects. Carlson has taken on the Republican establishment at times while Maher has strongly criticized Islam and the COVID shutdowns. Given my libertarian leanings I agree with Carlson more than I do with Maher. Nonetheless I follow Maher partly because he reveals the direction the left is taking but mostly because he occasionally breaks ranks with his colleagues (and takes heat for it).
In the climate change debate Judith Curry has expressed concerns over those who claim global warming is man-made. While she says we do have some affect Curry believes the true story is more complicated. Same with Bjorn Lomborg and Michael Shellenberger, both of whom believe we affect the climate but think the people who try to scare us into drastic action on global warming grossly simplify the true story.
Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are on the left, yet Greenwald fears the push to control free speech by some on his side of the fence. Taibbi, who hated Trump, feels the objectivity of the news media vaporized in the heat of their hatred for Trump.
Below I’ve picked my favorites out of the 900+ people and organizations I follow on Twitter and put my absolute favorites in bold. If I ranked them in order of priority it would be Scott Adams, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Turley.
Category | Name | Twitter Handle |
Climate Change | Bjorn Lomborg | @BjornLomborg |
Climate Change | Judith Curry | @curryja |
Climate Change | Michael Shellenberger | @ShellenbergerMD |
COVID | Alex Berenson | @AlexBerenson |
COVID | Ethical Skeptic | @EthicalSkeptic |
COVID | Gummi Bear | @gummibear737 |
Critical Thinking | Peter Boghossian | @peterboghossian |
Free speech | Glenn Greenwald | @ggreenwald |
General | Andreas Backhaus | @AndreasShrugged |
General | Critical Thinking 101 | @critical18495985 |
General | Greg Lukianoff | @glukianoff |
General | Hotep Jesus | @HotepJesus |
General | Jonathan Haidt | @JonHaidt |
General | Jonathan Turley | @JonathanTurley |
General | Jordan Peterson | @jordanbpeterson |
General | Megan McArdle | @asymmetricinfo |
General | Mike Cernovich | @Cernovich |
General | Scott Adams | @ScottAdamsSays |
General | Steve Hilton | @SteveHiltonx |
General | Steve Pinker | @sapinker |
General | Bari Weiss | @bariweiss |
News Bias | AllSides | @AllAidesNew |
News Bias | Ground News | @Ground_app |
News Bias | Just The News | @JustTheNews |
News Bias | Left Right News | @leftrightnewsus |
News Bias | Sharyl Attkisson | @SharylAttkisson |
News/Politics | Martin Gurri | @mgurri |
News/Politics | Matt Taibbi | @mtaibbi |
Personal Development | Naval | @naval |
Politics | Alan Dershowitz | @AlanDersh |
Politics | Bill Maher | @billmaher |
Politics | Dave Rubin | @RubinReport |
Politics | Greg Gutfeld | @greggutfeld |
Politics | Tucker Carlson | @TuckerCarlson |
Race | John McWhorter | @JohnHMcWhorter |
Reporting | Andy Ngo | @MrAndyNgo |
Reporting | Jack Posobiec | @JackPosobiec |
Reporting | Lara Logan | @laralogan |
2 comments:
I don't see how Bill Maher gets on the list. The fact that he periodically objects to the worst wackiness on the left is fine, but that still leaves all his own wackiness and dishonesty.
I disagree with most things Maher says. I agree with his criticisms of the woke left, pandemic panic, etc. He has moments of lucidity. After thinking about this a bit more I'd add him as a footnote to the list for someone to keep an eye on rather than as an example of an objective thinker.
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