Funny how there is no “Policy” step in The Scientific Method.
That glaring step likely confuses eager sociology, civil engineering, business, environmental “science”, and economics students at cushy universities.
The average man on the street, soccer mom or young, sweaty Antifa mob partier or white, spoiled, upscale, female or soy-built progressive suburbanite, BLM, SJW would not ponder this as it generally would provoke troubling headaches.
In fact, as soon as researchers hint at or strongly recommend solutions to societal or individual problems, it ceases- violently, to be Science.
I’m talking to you Fauci. To the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change. To smarmy governors who blurt Just “Following the Science” when faced with obvious evidence of their Totalitarian actions that shock humanity.
Don’t let anyone in speech, writing or media get away with one of the Biggest Lies of the last century. Science requires - relentless - skepticism or it can’t work and we end up with woeful decisions like
- forcing active Covid patients into Senior Care facilities while Quarantining the healthy and productive.
- abandoning all reason in transforming elections into sporting events controlled by wealthy, psychotic, zealots who use pandemics as excuses for well known, worst practices in voting.
- abandoning real, hard, biologically based scientific understanding to force tragic, sexually deviant fantasies into mainstream dogma and into our children’s souls.
- Critical Race Theory, another militant, hateful, and racist ideology targeting society as a whole to tear down the most successful nations in history and keep minorities on their sociopolitical plantations while generating billions for their masters.
The list is endless. Eggs will kill you. Trans fats like margarine are smart and healthy. Carbon dioxide - which feeds all plant life and hence all life, is a dangerous pollution.
Small towns with traditional values are toxic legacies of ignorant, obsolete ages but jamming poor, desparate populations into cement, steel, neon, and glass cages where family’s are dissolved and diseases and crime are rampant are saluted as Smart Cities.
Personal transportation is no longer needed as is the freedom of choice as to when, how and to where travel is permitted. Religion is ignorance while soul-destroying perversion is tolerated and celebrated. The internet as it exists today.
All of these evils can be founded on the literally ignorant and arrogant policies of champions of a “science” where attacking a flawed hypothesis or challenging dodgy, incomplete, illogical, or nonexistent experimental results is banned from social media, any media eventually and banned from thought when possible.
Is Scientific method perfect? No, but it’s just logic and not accepting positions unless they cannot be shown false after continuous, intense and creative scrutiny and may still be overturned in future inquiries.
Maybe the standard Scientific Method approach could add a final step after sharing results (Wuhan, CDC/WHO) - to determine Cui Bono, who benefits, or maybe more simply “Follow the Money” regarding potential policies derived from actual Science, properly performed.
Your post #14 is excellent!
Politics is the art of telling the big lies, which is why most politicians are trained lawyers. In their eyes, they are just highly compensated professionals representing a slimy client, typically Democrat Double-O One, aka Satan Claus.
Science is the art of finding truth, education the art of teaching truth, medicine the art of health, engineering the art of practical design. Big lie telling is completely incompatible with the others, although is compatible with Democrat-dominated arts such as Hollywood and advertising.
The hobby of politics is pointing out the big lies. It's remarkable how many people hate politicians, but don't know exactly why. If only the fancy word politician could be replaced by the term professional liar.