Posted on 10/28/2021 7:52:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How are we human beings going to be able to kick the butts of COVID creatures infinitesimally smaller than we are? Or are we going to be like Goliath, who fell to the Lilliputian David?
It all depends upon whether we embrace science or continue to denigrate it.
The powers that be are continually and boringly claiming to be the one side that embraces this discipline, while the other denounces it. Nothing can be further from the truth.
What then are the relevant characteristics of the scientific method?
First and foremost, we must hear from all sides in any scientific dispute. John Stuart Mill in his "On Liberty" went even farther in this direction: not only must we hear from them all, but we must be intimately familiar with their arguments. We must be able to articulate them as if they were our own. The last thing we would want to do is to shut them down.
How do present practices comport with the absolute requirement of science? Not too well. Doctors who disagree with the emerging consensus have been threatened with the loss of their medical license.
For example: "The Federation of State Medical Boards warned ... that physicians and other healthcare professionals could be at risk of losing their medical licenses if they spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on social media, online and in the media."
Misinformation? In this case, that is the considered opinion of licensed and duly qualified physicians! In some cases, doctors have not been stripped of their licenses, but "merely" threatened with such sanctions. Nor are doctors the only ones to be so treated. Medical researchers cannot lose a physician's license, but they can be fired for spreading "misinformation" — that is, taking a non-consensus position on this matter.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Even scientists have feelings and emotions.
Politically Corrupt (PC)
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