As every year passes, the self-proclaimed progressive "Brights"- those who "Follow the science" rigorously, they claim, when making and supporting public policies- endorse as proven facts beliefs and policies that are driven by ideological or venal self-interest rather than truth.
Our economy is hostage to the same fetishizing of "Science," leading to dubious economic proposals that ignore the real science of mathematics.
Politics, an unwillingness to confess ignorance, and a fear of not being proactive enough, rather than science, determined policies like wearing masks and, more costly both now and in the future, lockdowns.
We have plenty of object- lessons from the past that demonstrate the dangers of using science to disguise irrational ideological aims in the quantitative data and polysyllabic jargon of science.
Worse, politicians "Followed the science" and started programs of compulsory sterilization to start stemming the tide of dysgenic practice.
A few days ago, as Freeman reports, "Government disease experts Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Rochelle Walensky reasonably and responsibly urged Americans to get vaccinated and to take care in avoiding infection. But they also went beyond reasonable admonitions, fearfully encouraging continued restrictions by state governments without even addressing the pros and cons, as if lockdowns have been proven to work and have no negative impact on public health." No research science stood behind their advice, nor any recognition of the collateral damage some of which Freeman catalogs above.
Much of what we call science today and call on as a definitive authority does not meet the standards of real science.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/04/higher-superstition-bruce-thornton/
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