The Rise of Totalitarian Science, 2022 Edition

In my view we've gone pretty far down the path toward totalitarian science during the past two years.

The Dangerous Expansion of Government Power in the Name of Science COVID-19 has been used as the rationale for an extraordinary expansion of government power in the name of science: lengthy "Lockdowns" of businesses and churches, vaccination mandates, government-imposed discrimination against people based on their medical choices, government-encouraged censorship of dissenting scientific views, and more.

The genie of unaccountable government power in the name of science has been let out of the bottle.

The Dramatic Rise of Censorship in the Name of Science The COVID era also has seen a dramatic rise of censorship in the name of science.

"Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?" Unfortunately, instead of defending free speech, we are seeing increased demands for the censorship of disfavored speech in the name of science.

Arguments for science censorship have been made before about Darwinian evolution and climate change.

Tech companies are now blocking citizen access to their elected officials' statements and deliberations about science and public policy.

Mass Dehumanization in the Name of Science The third challenge posed to civilized societies by the COVID era is dehumanization in the name of science.

Following past abuses of medical science in Nazi Germany and America, there developed strong support for a person's right to determine what medical treatments he or she receives.

The closest analogue I can find to anything like this goes back to the social Darwinist eugenics movement in the early 20th century, where eugenists like Margaret Sanger succeeded in invoking science to sterilize people they similarly labeled "Parasites," "Leeches," "Cancerous growths," and more.

Our civilization is in crisis right now - a crisis tied to an abusive view of science.
 

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