Posted on 03/13/2023 9:25:18 AM PDT by DeweyCA
I stopped trusting “science” when I went keto years ago and it worked. The final straw for me is this:
Many “scientists” claim men can get pregnant. And a woman can have a penis.
Modern science is ANTI-science, writing as someone who got his degree in Biology back when most scientists wanted to figure out what REALLY happens. Those days are LONG gone.
By the time COVID rolled around, I had contempt for modern science. That probably kept me healthy.
This started with Charles Lyell yearsago. It is, was and will continue to be extremely successful.
Fixed it.
It’s not the science that should be trusted or not trusted.
It’s the scientists that we should all be wary of. Politics have caused many of them to become great liars and activists which should have no place in science.
Don’t trust THEM, not it.
However, scientific knowledge IS based on trust that what has filtered down to us was something that was competently verified by specialists--except in the special case that we are one of the specialists doing that particular kind of research.
So it is on us, the general public, to figure out what claims that were ostensibly verified are trustworthy. When we see cases like Climate Change this decision is trivially easy. There is no way on Earth that any sane person can trust what we are told.
If you believed hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin helped deal with this disease, and that an untested vaccine was dangerous, then you believed in THAT science.
Even the knowledge that a cloth mask not being effective on a small virus is science. If the space between the fibers of a mask is larger than the virus and airborne particles, then that is science also.
The three most deadly movements of the last 100 years were eugenics, nazism, and communism. All three had “science” as their centerpiece. The absolute propaganda centerpiece of all three was, “we are only following the science”.
It’s utter arrogance to claim “science” today has suddenly arrived at accuracy. Point me to a single time in human history when science was correct. Especially this modern “I Effing Love Science” crowd you see everywhere.
30 years ago when everyone knew ulcers were caused by worry and a high carb diet was good?
90 years ago when they were sure pellagra was caused by a germ?
150 years ago when they believed in phrenology? When they were certain a dead body recorded the image of the killer on their dead eyes?
Or back a little over 100 years ago when they thought our solar system was the entire universe? Tell me exactly when “science” was correct. And while you’re not arrogant as hell for thinking that this is the error on now we know everything?
The very essence of science if freedom to question and test every claim it makes.
Scientists were right, people died.
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The covid debacle is a perfect recent example of a deliberately missed putt.
I can name many others if interested.
Place your trust in the God who made us all. He does not miss putts!
Bingo.
Yeah, typical blinkered article by someone who hasn’t the slightest bloody idea what the scientific method means. Idiot.
Humans are fallible. Anybody not aware of this is an idiot, too.
I generally accept science except when politics is involved.
It is usually OK to ‘trust’ science. What should ALWAYS be questioned is anything said by anyone who is paid by the government and media. This particularly includes those who have any sort of science degree.
I first dropped my faith in science when the Great Dr Watson was forced to retire from Cold Harbor laboratory over his hypotheses that intelligence is closely related to genetics. It’s not a Matter of him being correct or not, science is supposed to take all hypothesis of a serious nature then test them, gather the evidence and accept or reject. Instead he was personally attacked and his ideas rejected out of hand.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE IS DEAD.
I am a PhD scientist, with degrees from MIT and Harvard.
Science is self-correcting, over the long term. But science can be wrong in the short term. And sometime the “short-term” lasts for decades (e.g. “Piltdown man”). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man
Current fads for injecting left-wing politics, feminist and LGBT activism etc. into science hurt science. So does dishonesty by government-related scientists.
Hopefully science’s self-correcting mechanisms will erase all this garbage—sooner rather than later!
What happened to Jim Watson was a gross injustice, even though he IS a racist!!
Without Jim Watson—NO Cold Spring Harbor lab! PERIOD!!!!
Also, what happened to David Sabatini was a gross injustice!! Hopefully, this is being turned around!
Some of the radical feminists who have attacked Dr. Sabatini used to be very nice women, but over the last few decades have gone sour. Why?
There is a reason I referred to “science” and “scientists” versus simply science.
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