Posted on 08/24/2022 8:06:36 AM PDT by rktman
"Trust the science," say the media.
Polls show that fewer Americans do. There's good reason for that.
"They don't trust science because science is increasingly untrustworthy," says science writer Andrew Follet in my new video. "The only group that trusts science right now is Democrats."
Sixty-four percent of Democrats have "a great deal" of confidence in the scientific community, compared to 34% of Republicans.
Of course, true science -- using the scientific method -- is important. But that's not what much of "science" is these days.
Instead, today government science is misused by progressive politicians.
Example 1: Environmental activists want to limit commercial fishing. They want Congress to pass what they call the "Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act." It claims climate change is the "greatest threat to America's national security" and offers a dubious solution: close more of the ocean to commercial fishing.
The administration's deputy director of Climate, Jane Lubchenco, told Congress that a scientific paper concludes that closing more of the ocean can actually increase catches of fish.
Really? That doesn't seem logical.
It isn't. The paper was retracted. One scientist called its logic "biologically impossible."
Also, Lubchenco's didn't tell Congress that the paper was written by her brother-in-law! And edited by her!
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Science is fine
Its “science” in the hands of liars, politicians, and media hacks that is the problem.
Oh, I thought you meant bill nye, the failed comedian masquerading as "the science guy".
No, we still trust science. What the sane among us no longer trust is what leftist tyrants and their groupies falsely trot out as science and scientists. Tyrants and stupid people can’t redefine the true meaning of the word just because they want to.
I trust “The Science”
I trust “The Politicians”
I trust “the Parma Companies”
I trust “the big banks”
I trust “all the three letter gov’t agencies”
Hilarious. I don't know how Stephen Crowder keeps a straight face when he punks these people.
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If you want your word to be trusted, don't try to push BS political agendas in pursuit of money, it's that simple.
You could have posted a pic of fauxnocchio and we would have gotten the idea. 😂👍 But, thanks. Good guide. Sadly it could cause some folks to NOT receive grant money if adhered to.
Yeah, you’d have to be some special sort of moron to not trust science. Like not trusting that gravity will work tomorrow when you get up.
There is nothing wrong with science. What we are seeing out of the commie trash in the MSM/politicos/etc is a corrupt twisting of facts that is called science.
This is deliberate and a win/win. 1st, the gullible morons will believe any sort of lie if it is stamped “science”. Then 2nd, when most folks (the non-morons) note the corruption of still another English word, the commie trash have destroyed another system/establishment. Don’t forget, the goal of the C-T is total power, and that can/will be achieved if you do not defend your systems.
Can’t these fake papers be treated as confidence scams. They are done for money.
As a scientist I have tried to replicate many expired patent filings to come up with new products (most patents are never used, much less make money).
Off the top of my head I guess half of the experiments described in the patent literature can be successfully replicated.
Some are complete and utter BS. Why someone spent money to file is beyond me (unless some were simply blocking patents).
This is the foundation of Western Civilization and all the miracles it has wrought.
In the decadent phase of Western Civilization, truth is held in contempt.
Contempt for truth is the evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilization.
Link to article on fat studies, lol
I think one of the problems is that people conflate science with the opinions of scientists. Or they believe that offhand conclusions drawn on the basis of a specific experimental result are themselves scientific analysis.
I saw a study from a few years back suggesting up to 50% of published experiments were not reproduceable. There’s a great pressure to publish in academia if one wants to get ahead, and if a particular experiment doesn’t work out there’s a temptation on the part of the researchers to falsify their data in order to get it published.
“Science” was never intended as something to be trusted or untrusted. It is a method of doing things, like knitting a sweater. Do you always “trust the knitting”? It depends upon the skill of the knitter, or the intentions of the knitter. Bad knitting is something to be avoided if possible, but it happens.
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