Posted on 12/06/2022 10:45:26 AM PST by MtnClimber
Political bias and personal profit have become major factors in the degree to which scientific pronouncements have become suspect.
Science has had a long and difficult path to its success, and to its well deserved respect over its main competitors: superstition and falsehood. Arguably, in 1945, that respect reached its zenith, with the detonation of the nuclear weapons that are credited with ending World War 2. Science-based technology literally exploded onto the public consciousness. No one could argue with its awesome demonstration of power. Nor could anyone doubt that the predictions of scientists, no matter how fantastic, must eventually come true. Why, by 1966, we will all have flying cars!
Of course, we did not. That is certainly forgivable, but scientific technology has fallen short of public expectations in more ways than just that. Some years ago, an eminent physicist published a commentary lamenting the transformation of science from an evidence-based endeavor into a proposal-based activity — a guessing game. Instead of observation, hypothesis, and experiment, physics seemed to have moved its laboratories to the blackboard. We are all familiar with the confusing maze of cryptic, Greco-Arabic symbols that describe for us such unproved pronouncements as the existence of multiple universes, subatomic strings, and "dark" physics, for none of which there is direct physical evidence. Yet these educated guesses enjoy a degree of acceptance rivaling that of confirmed experimental results, blurring the line between scientific fact and speculative conjecture.
The resulting destruction of society from corrupt scientists is appalling. Billions of people are to be impoverished by futile attempts to adjust the climate to some unspecified parameters. Untold numbers of children are being castrated and otherwise mutilated to serve the transgender gods. Inadequately tested drugs are being sold, even mandated, to prevent self-limiting diseases, while effective therapies are being suppressed.
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I cringe when I open the pages of Physics Today. And they keep going after me to take their ESG/DEI or whatever survey. Stuff it.
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Racial quotas for STEM in defiance if IQ distribution, a literal dark age.
Yes.
Albert Einstein and company are turning in their graves.
Scientist used to be 100% trustworthy. Once a while, mistakes were made, but overall people used to trust science.
Nowadays, not too much. Snake oil salesmen are the scientists of present!
Don’t worry. Chinese scientists and engineers will pick up the slack.
AAAS was offering t-shirts and tote bags with Global Warming or Diversity images to get people to restart their membership.
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