It's not science I don't trust - it's the scientists

The Spectator ^ | 2018-08-24 | James Delingpole

[call meVeronica]

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[tbw2]

The Heterodox Academy is another.

[KarlInOhio]

The scientist community relies on federal funding, they drank the cool aide the rats and their criminal agenda were offering or the unemployment line,

From President Eisenhower's farewell address:

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present--and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

[HangThemHigh]

"Physics and math fit the Bible very well. No conflict for me."

I agree & would add evolution as part of God's magnificent plan.

[FLT-bird]

Leftists sure are anti-science like for example when science shows that there are only two genders.....or when every climate model produced fails to show an imminent climate catastrophe....or when it shows that warming has been a leading event for higher levels of atmospheric carbon rather than a trailing event.

Then the science gets cast out the window.

[zeugma]

Jerry Pournelle called these the Voodoo Sciences many years ago, and was quite dismissive of them, and for good reasons.

I think I first saw that essay in one of the three "Imperial Stars" books of Mr. Pournelle. It was a good collection of stories and essays. Some are kind of dated now, but still worthwhile. I think Baen has all three volumes as ebooks.

[zeugma]

any 'discipline' with the word "social" or "studies" in the name is not related to science in any way.

[FreedomPoster]

Most disciplines with “science” in the name are not related to science in any way.

Example:

Social Science - not science

Physics - science

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Everyone knows the real reason people like Donald Trump are sceptical of climate change is that conservatives are fundamentally anti-science.

Everyone with two brain cells connected together knows that Democrats deny science as relates to who is a human being and what isn’t.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Everyone knows the real reason people like Donald Trump are sceptical of climate change is that conservatives are fundamentally anti-science.

Everyone with two brain cells connected together knows that Democrats deny science as relates to who is a human being and what isn’t.

[Freee-dame]

I remember when Bush 2 was slammed for years as anti-science because he was against federal funding for embryonic stem cell research on any NEW Cell lines beyond those already in use. As each non-embryonic (adult) stem cell medical breakthrough was made, the media either failed to mention that it did not involve embryonic stem cells or they just ignored it completely. The propaganda media lie in so many ways.

currently there are no medical protocols successfully using embryonic stem cells. Also not reported.

[zeugma]

Most disciplines with “science” in the name are not related to science in any way.

Your example:

Social Science - not science

This one fails on both counts. Contains "social" and "science". This tells you it really has nothing whatsoever to do with actual science at all.