Beam me to Planet Gore !
The link doesn’t go to the article.
Money trumps science nowadays, even though science has made many a person wealthy and healthy through hard work, knowledge, and perseverence. America has lost its way because we have traded the scientists and engineers for lawyers, finananciers, and politicians. Don’t believe me? Try eating a dollar bill for dinner tomorrow night, and see how that works out for you.
If only we laymen could simply trust our scientists, without thinking critically for ourselves, as we once trusted priests and rabbis. Alas, those days are gone too. Recognizing such things does not make you ignorant. It makes you a realist.Journalists are the chief promoters of the priesthood of the conformist. Journalists conform with each other, and they reward with good PR any other professional who conform in the same way.
Which is the only reason that people who oppose liberty are labeled "liberals," and people who oppose "the progress of science and useful arts," and the Constitution puts it, are called "progressive."
It reminds me of the Science Society in Atlas Shruggeed. Nothing whatsoever wrong with the steel, just needed to ensure the equality of outcomes.
Scientists have become whores.
This article is an interesting find, well worth reading. It is about a year old, and has accumulated some excellent comments following the article. These are also worth reading.
The scientific community will turn on anybody who comes up with an unsettling discovery or theory. Look at what happened when geologist Robert Schoch said that heavy rain caused erosion on the Sphinx, indicating it was built ca 5-6000 BC. The whole Egyptology crowd jumped all over him for heresy as they just “knew” Khufu built it ca 2500 BC.
I loved Schock’s reply, along the lines of, “I’m just saying that extensive rain caused the erosion. It’s YOUR problem if it hasn’t rained that hard since 5000 BC.”