The Tyranny of Pseudo-Science

American Thinker ^ | July 18, 201 | Bruce Walker

[detective]

The hysterical reaction of the left to Scott Pruitt's plan to create two competing teams of scientists to study from opposite positions the left's pet myth, man-made global warming, shows just how anti-science the left has become.  The left is a single, stupid collective mind that is utterly incapable of truly independent and free thought.  The left is very much like the Inner Party in Orwell's classic, 1984, where party members believe things that are obviously not true and in which dissent is – quite literally – unthinkable.

All totalitarianism purports to rest upon "science," and all totalitarian science slavishly follows what the state and the party of statism desire.  Institutions are inevitably infiltrated by leftists and used to rubber-stamp whatever the state wants.  Ben Stein in his documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed showed how any academicians who question Darwin's increasingly silly theory of evolution by natural selection are hounded, denied tenure, and even fired for questioning authority and deviating from orthodoxy.

[detective]

This is an excellent article.

Think of how many bad things in the world today are justified only by one thing.

Bad people say they are settled science or proven by science or accepted by science.

Therefore, anyone who questions it can only be stupid or lying.

[AndyTheBear]

We need a wall of separation between lab and state.

[bigbob]

Because (in their best indignant, lispy, stuttering academic voice), “the s-s-s-science is already s-s-s-settled!

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

No one, who knows anything about ‘science’, would ever say “the science is settled”. Science is never settled — that’s its nature.

If climate scientists, collectively, thought that ‘the science is settled’; then, they’d all turn in their grant money and retire — or move on to some field of inquiry that isn’t ‘settled’.