Posted on 09/06/2022 7:01:10 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Here’s a paradox. Over the past two-and-a-half years, a cadre of senior politicians and their “expert” advisors across the world have successfully promoted a series of controversial public policies by claiming they’re based on “the science” rather than a particular moral or ideological vision. I’m thinking of lockdowns and net zero in particular. Yet at the same time, this group has engaged in behavior that has undermined public confidence in science. Why appeal to the authority of science to win support for a series of politically contentious policies — and then diminish its authority?
(Excerpt) Read more at spectatorworld.com ...
Grades suffer, grant funding is withheld, legitimate studies are unpublished....
Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IO2DZjOkY
Concerns nutrition “science” but applies to all of it.
People will “very quickly rationalize and create a little paradigm to justify what they believe is true,” Kealey explained, emphasizing with a bit of wry humor that scientists are, in fact, people and engage in the kind of data-distorting practices he then went on to describe. “We commit to paradigms, and then we bend the data to it.”
The problem of science’s commitment to paradigms, Kealey claimed, is exacerbated by several factors, including government involvement and chummy funding practices whereby support is given only to those intellectual allies with whom one agrees.
“Now, you get money not for being right; you get money for satisfying the prejudices of the people who sit on the committees in the NIH and NSF,” Kealey said.”
Dr. Terence Kealey and the Myth of Scientific Objectivity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLzcsxo-fhs
What does Lysenko think?…
That clinking, clanking, clunking sound...
Why argue with people with absolutely no credibility?
Political Science is not science.
“the science”
Just two words, taking their place in history with “fact checkers”, etc.
The sure sign of its presence was when the term ‘settled science’ came into the common lexicon. Is there anything less scientific than that idiocy?
Paywall prevented me from reading the writer's answer, but the real answer is that it was never about the science, it was/is about the push for totalitarian government.
Two years? Let’s go back to “climate science”...
We can no longer trust medical doctors. They would order dangerous, experimental injections or medications to keep their jobs with large hospitals. They would refuse prescribing lower-cost treatments or pills proven to work if their masters demand such conduct.
Science?
All the unexplained sudden deaths of even young people SHOULD trigger a massive, scientific, immediate search and public disclosure of the reasons. Instead, we are getting shrugs of the shoulders from doctors and a declining life expectancy of Americans.
“Oh well,” say the doctors to keep their incomes from being lowered or eliminated.
Americans’ fear of dying suddenly is far less important than the doctors’ fear of being fired suddenly.
Even funeral embalmers across America are being threatened if they publicly discuss the strange things they have recently found in the blood vessels of the dead.
That is NOT science.
Exactly that was the start.
When there are only two types of chromosomes and only two combinations of those two chromosomes that create a living being, it isn’t biology that is the main problem....it’s the mathematics. One can argue biology but Can’t successfully argue the math. Oh...sorry. forgot that math is racist and isn’t being taught any more. My bad.
Funding. Once researchers accept government funding, they have no choice but to become politicized, because government never does *anything* without making the debate over funding it political.
“Now, you get money not for being right; you get money for satisfying the prejudices of the people who sit on the committees in the NIH and NSF,”
Y’all got that EFFING correct!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Democrat party needs to be eliminated from our society.
Neither is politicized science.
You can read the whole thing here if you like:
We have to remember that today’s “scientists” had to become Woke Snowflakes before they were given a “scientist” diploma.
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