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Big Science is broken
The Week ^ | April 18, 2016 | Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Posted on 04/18/2016 6:44:09 AM PDT by Fitzy_888

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To: ELS

No, but I’ve seen several others. I’ll put that on my list. My favorite is Cancer: The Forbidden Cures. It’s on YouTube.


61 posted on 04/18/2016 9:27:34 AM PDT by goodwithagun (March 3, 2016: The date FReepers justified the "goodness" of Planned Parenthood.)
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To: pas

No, real scientists know it is precisely true.


62 posted on 04/18/2016 9:32:58 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Fitzy_888

This is an excellent study and article.

There is one consideration I would like to advance. I admit it is not the only consideration.

Science was historically rooted in Christian civilization. It’s been said that Christianity stands upon Jerusalem and Athens, faith and reason. Faith in one God (as opposed, for example, to Roman or Greek polytheism) who would make a universal set of physical laws. Our capability to reason is a gift that we can and should use to understand a good creation from a good creator. Central to this is the conviction that truth is good. Made in the image of God, we can use reason to better understand the truths of the universe.

So. Jump forward to a Marxist influenced post-Christian world. The highest morality is to advance the cause of social justice - income and wealth equality. Telling the truth is good or bad depending on its contribution to social justice.

Of course, a lot of things continue through inertia. This can include good science. But it seems to me that where Christianity birthed science, Marxism (and its spinoffs) have birthed junk science.

By the way, I’m not throwing mud at Ayn Randian members of the atheist right. Their world view emphasizes truth and reason. However to date it is the atheist left that dominates both atheism, and the left. (Members of the religious left will always remain tools of the atheist left.)


63 posted on 04/18/2016 9:44:07 AM PDT by ChessExpert (It is not compassion when you use government to give other people's money away.)
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To: goodwithagun

The herbal remedies are not the weirdest part I’m reading. It’s what they suggest you do with coffee. Hey, nobody’s telling.


64 posted on 04/18/2016 9:50:14 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ChessExpert

The technological imperative appears early in the bible: Genesis 1:28. Fill the earth and subdue it.


65 posted on 04/18/2016 9:53:07 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Fitzy_888
My book, SCIENCE FUNDING: POLITICS AND PORKBARREL, pointed out that Federal funding of research had corrupted the American scientific establishment. Things have only gotten worse since I wrote it.
66 posted on 04/18/2016 2:35:02 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: FamiliarFace

Ahhh. I’d rather not disclose, but it was in New England. This guy totally faked the work. Such a shock, at the time.......


67 posted on 04/18/2016 4:58:11 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: originalbuckeye

Oh ok. I do understand. I was in Texas, so I guess, the wrong hospital...and also the wrong dude. Funny how prevalent the fudging is though.

I became disillusioned with how “research” was being funded and awarded soon after my experience with that guy. I stopped soon after. I think this article is spot on though.


68 posted on 04/18/2016 6:08:07 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: FamiliarFace

Agree.


69 posted on 04/18/2016 6:14:27 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Fitzy_888

Money corrupts. Big money corrupts ... bigly?


70 posted on 04/19/2016 9:17:36 PM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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