Not all scientists think the same
Just putting this out there since some would have you think otherwise...
I’m going to keep this short - I just want to put this out there, and hopefully if I keep this short and sweet, the message will be heard.
In the past, I have written posts about how there is this prevailing assumption that all academics are liberals / democrats, and how professional societies feel this obligation to speak for their members on social / political issues when they do NOT represent all of their members in those statements. And honestly, it kinda shocks me that my academic colleagues still talk to me that way, considering how they wanted me fired in 2021 for my anti-COVID stance (hence the anonymity here).
But today, I heard some stuff that blew my mind. First, calling stuff “clearly supported by science” when it is anything BUT that. Second, reading articles about Dr. Bhattacharya’s NIH confirmation hearings calling him a kook and questioning the validity of his science. Now I finally understand why those people think he’s a kook: 1) the scientific media tells them to believe that, and 2) they’ve never acknowledged the science on the other side, because they themselves believe “science” that is a LIE.
1 Timothy 6:20 (KJV) says : “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:”
My husband came upon that verse in 2020 and it took our breath away. Folks, that’s where we are right now - science falsely so called.
In the coming days, weeks, maybe months, you will be seeing a movement in response to NIH funding being cut. Scientists will be becoming more vocal in “spreading the truth about true science.” Please take everything they say with a grain of salt. Research it yourself. Avoid these vain babblings.
And please, think twice about sending your kids to college.
As Blaise Pascal once noted, once science is divorced from ethics, scientists will use their skills to pursue power, not truth. The late Dr. Michael Chricton wrote, similarly years later, “as Alston Chase put it, ‘when the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.’
“What is necessary for the very existence of science and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the material with which we work, by nature herself.” ― Richard P. Feynman And “Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that doubt is not a fearful thing, but a thing of very great value." — Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All