As a general rule, the next time an official, a politician, or an expert lectures us on the “science,” make sure that he is not projecting his own unscientific biases onto others.
Throughout the Trump years and in particular during the 2020 COVID pandemic crisis, the nation was lectured by the Left “to follow the data,” as the Democrats proclaimed themselves the “party of science.” As sober and judicious children of the enlightenment, they alone offered the necessary disinterested correctives to Trump’s supposed bluster and exaggeration—and to his anti-scientific deplorable following (often dismissed by Biden as dregs, chumps, and Neanderthals).
In truth, leftists and Democrats have become the purveyors of superstition. Their creation of a fantasy world is not because they do not believe in science per se, but because they believe more in the primacy of ideology that should shape and warp science in the proper fashion for the greater good. What prompted Paul Ehrlich, Al Gore, or Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hysterically and wrongly to forecast widespread demographic or climatological catastrophe in just a few years was not ignorance of science per se, but a desire to massage science for our own good.
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Modern science will now say whatever the person signing the check tells it to say.
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DeleteThe shortcut to avoiding being deceived is: when a politician, celebrity, or nostrum-peddler of any sort begins prattling about "science," to assume that he's lying in service to an evil agenda. Indeed, even genuine scientists will do so if they think the "cause" is important enough.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, even genuine scientists will do so if they think the "cause" is important enough.
ReplyDeleteHow far we have fallen. :(
Science is no longer a PROCESS used to learn truth but a sociopolitical religion used to advance agendas.
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