Posted on 01/23/2022 2:20:59 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Medieval thinkers pretending to infallibility often claimed to have received a direct revelation from God. Since the 19th century, secular thinkers have invoked science. As Anthony Fauci said in June, “a lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly are attacks on science.”
One can often tell that an appeal to science is unwarranted without knowing anything about the science in question. If science is treated as a solid block, each part of which is as indubitable as all the others, then science has been misunderstood. Science always contains some propositions less firmly grounded than others: on the frontier, newly discovered, based on experiments not readily replicated.
Perhaps the clearest sign that a scientist, or anyone else, is misrepresenting science is a confusion of a science with political or social claims that it is thought to imply. That is what social Darwinists and Soviet dialectical materialists did. Such claims are never scientific. They are a clear sign of pseudoscience. One must argue for or against the social or political implications of a scientific discovery in the same way as for any social or political ideas.
When President Biden, or a politician from any part of the political spectrum, claims he is only “following the science,” one can be sure that he isn’t...
...The greater danger to the public’s trust in science comes not from the uneducated but from politicians and journalists who claim to speak in the name of science. Still more, it comes from scientists themselves, either because of what they say publicly in the name of science or their failure to correct others’ misrepresentations of it.
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The greater danger to the public’s trust in science comes not from the uneducated but from politicians and journalists who claim to speak in the name of science. Still more, it comes from scientists themselves, either because of what they say publicly in the name of science or their failure to correct others’ misrepresentations of it.
The silence of our scientists.....................
“When President Biden, or a politician from any part of the political spectrum, claims he is only “following the science,” one can be sure that he isn’t...”
“Here’s the deal. If you get one of these vaccines, you will not get COVID-19. Period.” Joe Biden, 2021.
Science is ever changing and questioning.
Settled science is NOT science.
bkmk
Remember the “March for Science”?
Look up Conway Zirkle; he had quite a bit to say the corruption of science by politics.
Remember, most of the people who tell us to “follow the science” say there are 48+ sexes and make ridiculous denials that a new human being is created at fertilization.
No self-respecting scientist calls himself a scientist. He’ll say he is a physicist, chemist, etc.
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