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I think you raise a very valid question. Look at how ANYTHING that is derogatory to some liberal philosophical tenet is suppressed.

Today we don’t believe in IQ anymore because it tells us a story that doesn’t fit into the sexual/racial egalitarian world view.

Global warming, yeah... 9F in Texas, in February. The temperature increases predicted did not occur (several times). The water tables did not rise as predicted (several times). The models used as “proof” have been discredited (false science: adding unexplainable variables that produce the outcome they want)...

The gay gene. Still “science” even after the Human Genome Project, and several other studies looking explicitly for this, found nothing like it.

But evolution is a fact, even though it’s not reproducible, is based on 5 assumptions, and is not something observable in nature, i.e. the mutation requirement of evolution doesn’t lead to viable or some advantaged offspring that is favored.

“Science” today is just a slogan thrown around in the media and politics but its real meaning has been lost. It’s no longer objective, based on a method, reproducible, transparent, and using both correlation AND causality to interpret the results. Look at Fauci and Biden and their science of social distancing, masks, shutting down small restaurants where practically nothing spread. What was the “science” behind shutting down swimming pools and public beaches? Is it the salt water, UV light, heat, sand which is a horrible environment for the virus, or fact that people naturally spread out on a beach that makes it a requirement to shut them all down?

Between pushing some socio-economic philosophy/ideology (global warming), politics (Covid), or economic interests (pharma), you end up with a very skewed concept.

But all of this is only possible because the public accepts and reacts to it.

1. People are not taught formal logic and fallacies in school. This is why a reciprocal argument works so well, folks can see the correlation, but they do not understand causality. So you can claim that blacks are proportionally incarcerated at greater numbers or on death row because of institutional discrimination within our justice system. Which of course is just a mere distortion of reality, because causality shows they commit more violent crimes. But then the idea of racial self censorship does not allow one to argue the latter because anything derogatory pertaining to a special group will automatically be labeled as “racist.” Which of course is an ad homonym attack and not an argument.

2. Are weak in science and math. Self explanatory.

3. Have been conditioned to “trust” authority and use their “feelings.” My perceptions are reality. If I feel a certain way, it must be true.