Reflections From a Murky Pond

It’s impossible for any sane, right-minded person to “trust the science” in these times, in which scientists are professionals earning their living through scientific research at the behest of corporations and various national and international agencies. Simply put, it’s reasonable to believe, and often a proven fact, that these science workers research what they’re told to and deliver as close as possible to the results their employers, be they corporations or governments, desire… because they need to keep their jobs.

What is Climate Change? The above is Climate Change when it’s capitalized as a codified proper noun and political agenda. Oh, climate change – in the lowercase, reality-based sense – is real in that the climate changes constantly and various inputs, including human-caused ones, do have impact upon the nature of those changes. It’s just that only sciences that Climate Change is based upon is political science, sociology, and social engineering.

That’s part of the sad truth of scientists then vs. what passes for scientists now, at least in a lot of the disciplines. They’ve thrown out true scientific methods and inverted everything. Instead of basing their theories on the evidence, they twist the evidence to support their theories.

But, simply put, a great number of them have to do this, otherwise they won’t get published, won’t get research grants, won’t get teaching positions or tenure, and won’t be able to pay their rent. Unlike in the 19th Century, the vast today’s scientists practice their craft for a living. Unlike most of their earlier counterparts, they’re professionals, doing whatever they have to in order to get and keep their jobs. If that means not practicing true science, then so be it.

And, this has been exacerbated by the scientific publishing industry, which peer reviews papers and decides whether or not to publish them. That industry is staffed by people who are very invested in orthodoxy and carefully curated results because they need to keep their own jobs, which would be endangered by countering theories.

The gatekeepers of the science industry just give unwanted theories the “silent treatment.” No rebuttals, no arguments, but also no publication and dissemination, just silence and a total refusal to give the offenders any attention at all. “Publish or perish” being real, that is the most common and most effective means of removing the offenders from the industry.

So, scientists then and now are not the same. And, this is because between the 19th and 20th centuries society turned them into professionals and a special class or caste of people. This resulted in the art or science of Economics trumping any real adherence to the Scientific Method.

Hilarious… but also all to close to observable fact in these degenerate times. Boys growing up today seem to be being forced to, to some extent and in at least some ways, turning into girls as they grow up. It brings a whole new meaning to both Sequential Hermaphroditism and child abuse.

The science of food is a beautiful thing. 😆 And hey, if you don’t get it, that just means you’ve managed to put Chemistry 1 far, far out of your mind.