Whether or not they can express it clearly, or even face it directly, more or less all adults noticed that medicine was used as a weapon during the Covid fiasco.
Today I’m going to address this, because we’ve been losing science and we’ve been losing medicine; that is flatly unacceptable.
#1: Science is not consensus. Tens, hundreds or even millions of people, all draped in lab coats and saying the same thing, does NOT make it so. In fact, it matters not at all. It’s nothing but theater, and it’s anti-science.
All science is, really, is a process of testing ideas; it is not an organization, it is not based upon authority (it’s inherently anti-authority), and it is very certainly not allied with power. All that matters in science are verifiable results.
#2: Medicine stands apart from, and above, politics. Medicine is the application of science to the furtherance of human health. Politics is the use of persuasion and power to rule masses of humans. These are fully separate disciplines. To place politics over medicine is to subjugate and degrade medicine: it’s a path backwards into darkness.
I’ll leave details on this point to working medical practitioners, who can provide them with greater specificity than I can… provided they’re not too frightened to do so.
#3: Peer review no longer means much. Again I won’t go into great detail, but peer review has been captured by academic hierarchies and very often separated from science proper. It has become a tool of institutional power, wielded by academics who have sold out science for the favors of power and politics.
At one time peer review referred to the honest replication of experiments. That time is largely past.
#4: Medicine and science have nothing to do with social pressure. Once medicine and science are mixed with social pressure, they are no longer science or medicine. At that point they are instruments of manipulation and thuggery, nothing more.
#5: If you don’t read multiple scientific papers, especially from rebels and cast-outs, you simply don’t know. You can pretend you know, of course, and that agents of monopoly will support you in your charade, but you won’t actually know.
If you want to really know, you’ll have to find the scientific papers that address your question… and you’ll need papers that are rejected by experts and authorities. If you don’t, all you’ll have are pre-censored conclusions, the underlying facts of which may or may not be reliable.
At this point, if you don’t include “conspiracy theory” research, you may be stuck with Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. That’s tragic, but it’s also largely true.
The Problem Is Not Mental Weakness
The problem underlying all of this is not a lack of intellectual strength, but a lack of emotional strength. It’s not that people are stupid, it’s that they haven’t the strength to defy authority:
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- Having been trained in submission to authority, to then speak against an authority is terrifying. And so people find ways to ignore truth (which has no backing but itself) and to sanctify authority, which is backed by everything from shame to guns.
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- The fear of appearing stupid – of being publicly exposed as stupid – can be overwhelming. And with “important” people tearing up anyone not in lockstep with them, defiance seems too expensive.
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- Power being wrong calls too much into question. If the high and mighty can be publicly wrong, and can lie about it both repeatedly and adamantly, what else can be called into question? And if everything can be questioned, one must face the world alone.
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- Disobeying power or breaking with a group can lead to severe applications of social pain, as, again, it did during the Covid disaster.
None of these things have any connection to truth, only to power, intimidation and social penalties. And all of those are anti-science, no matter how much they may masquerade as science.
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