Tag: science and politics

Before It Evolved into Twaddle…REPRINT

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From March 27, 2019

My wife and I like watching videos of prehistoric animals. Usually we can just tune out the Evolution just-so story that accompanies the video, if the visuals are cool enough.

So we settled down on Youtube to watch Morphed: Before They Were Bears.

Apart from the initial absurdity of declaring that life arose from non-living materials, purely by chance, it rained on de rocks and de rocks come alive, doo-dah, doo-dah, we were treated to unbearable nonsense about… bears. It seems that whenever prehistoric bears encountered some kind of environmental challenge, they wisely considered what they would need and then proceeded to evolve it.

Oh, boy! Whoever said there’s no quality control on Youtube wasn’t kidding!

So, ya see, the giant panda needed an opposable thumb so he could hold on to the bamboo while he was eating it, but the digits he already had were spoken for, so he just, like, went ahead and evolved one of his wrist bones into a kind of thumb… and what he was eating while waiting for his magical thumb to evolve, who knows? If it takes millions of years for revolutionary new body parts to evolve, how does the species last long enough to benefit by it? Or if it happens real fast, then how come no naturalist or farmer or zoo-keeper or pet owner has ever observed it?

This doesn’t even rise to the level of crapola. We couldn’t make it halfway through this video before we had to turn it off.

Darwinism wouldn’t last another ten days if there weren’t such a deep political investment in it by the Left.

Yet Another Censorship Tactic REPRINT

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From June 24, 2019

If you can’t find it, you can’t read it.

Big Tech has discovered another way to silence dissenting voices.

This time the victim is Mercola.com, known to subscribers as “Dr. Mercola.” In its latest search engine update, implemented June 3, Google “buries” Dr. Mercola (https://www.healthglu.com/uncategorized/google-buries-mercola-in-their-latest-search-engine-update-part-1-of-2/) by removing “most Mercola.com pages from its search results.” Now the only way a Mercola.com page will come up is if the user searches, for instance, “Mercola.com heart disease” instead of just “heart disease.”

“This year we’ve seen an unprecedented rush to implement censorship of critical voices,” Dr. Mercola says. Big Tech, he says, makes money by helping “fascist government-industrial complexes” to silence dissenters and critics.

Dr. Mercola’s crime, it seems, was to question the need for and the effectiveness of various vaccines–the new measles vaccine, for one, which he has said “offers only temporary artificial immunity” (https://articles.mercola.com/measles.aspx). Dr. Mercola has dissented from the current panic over measles, saying most of the measles deaths are the result of poor nutrition and generally poor health in Third World countries. Apparently there’s someone who doesn’t like that opinion and doesn’t think the public ought to read it.

They haven’t erased him: just made it harder for users to find him.

It’s not quite as draconian as the 2016 Democrat proposal to make “climate change denial” a crime with criminal sanctions–but it has caused Dr. Mercola’s Internet traffic to “plummet by 99 percent in recent weeks” since the update.

Not draconian, but certainly effective.

Is this how “science” is going to be done from now on? By silencing anyone who questions any claim made by a powerful establishment?

But that’s not science, is it?

Science (with Government!) Marches On (Newswithviews, Oct. 5)

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The Russians did it first! Quick, everyone–panic!

I grew up in the Sputnik Panic Era, when the Soviets’ satellite freaked out America’s establishment and suddenly everything was Science. We had to catch up!

Science (with Government!) Marches On

Over the years, Science got fat and stopped hitting. It was the Climbit Change scam that finished it off for me. Now they were just like everybody else in Washington: nothing mattered but to grab more money, more power.

Did Government poison Science, or did Science poison Government? It’s the sound of one hand clapping…

Next on Worry List: NYC Sinking into Oblivion

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NYC is sinking under the weight of its buildings: geologists

As if things weren’t already bad enough, now some geologists warn us that New York City is slowly sinking into the earth at a rate of 1 or 2 millimeters per year (https://nypost.com/2023/05/17/nyc-is-sinking-under-the-weight-of-its-buildings-geologists/). Don’t sign any long-term leases.

Let’s see… hmm… Experts say New York’s buildings, over a million of ’em, weigh some 1.7 trillion pounds and that’s why they’re sinking. Some 8.4 million people will be increasingly at risk from flooding, hurricanes, and giant monsters stirred up by muclear tests. Yeah–they couldn’t tell the story without bringing in the whole Climate Change book of verses. It’s your fault, people! Trying to live like your betters–no way! Quick, confiscate the gas stoves and the air conditioners!

See? They can never just report a scientific finding. They’ve always got to add a lot of BS bells and whistles which makes the whole thing sound like ca-ca. Then they throw a tantrum ’cause we don’t believe them.

Our Medical Establishment Dives Off the Cliff

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Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? | Britannica

[Thanks to “Ohio Chess Fan” for the nooze tip]

I have found it hard to bring myself to write about this; it’s very distressing news. But we have to know what we’re up against.

The American Medical Assn., the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Children’s Hospital Foundation have asked the, ahem, “Justice” Dept. to prosecute critics who question radical gender (oh God) “medicine,” etc. (https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/3-major-american-medical-associations-want-doj-prosecute-critics-question-radical-gender-medicine). Right up the Biden DOJ’s street, that is. They have called for “swift action” to be taken.

It’s gotten so that whoever owns the keys to the jailhouse also owns the, uh, “science.”

This is just horrendous. Our medical establishment has turned into a horde of lemmings stampeding off a cliff to drown in the ocean. Or some raving lunatic driving his electric car off the cliff.

Is it really necessary to assert that this “medicine,” this gender voodoo, if practiced assiduously, would result in human extinction? Gender “medicine” makes you sterile! And that’s just the least of your worries, bunky.

Is this whole “gender” madness God’s judgment against wicked fools who have made war on His creation?

Please, Lord, remember! These things are done without our consent, against our will, and over our objections.

 

‘Science and Magic’ (Rushdoony, 1996)

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A Tribute to R. J. Rushdoony

Our culture was already in trouble when R.J. Rushdoony wrote this essay in 1996. It has not gotten better since.

https://chalcedon.edu/resources/articles/science-and-magic

One thing has changed, though, that wasn’t so glaringly apparent in 1996:

Science nowadays is heavily politicized–almost to the point where it isn’t “science” at all. Can you say “Climate Change scam”? Transgender movement? “Vaccines” that don’t work but earn a lot of money? “Green energy” that costs a nearly infinite amount of public money but doesn’t work? I mean, just for starters…

That’s all what happens with “science” and politics wind up in bed together. They corrupt each other–and they weren’t exactly squeaky-clean to start with.

Rushdoony believe that Christians have to work to build a Christian culture. Like humanists labor unceasingly to build a Godless humanist culture. They work at it. We haven’t. And it shows.

Oh, No! Worse Than Monkeypox!

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Sea Monkeys: False Advertising of Science Can Still be Fascinating!

Done with COVID-19? Not yet suitably scared of monkeypox?

Well, hang onto your hats–here comes sea monkeypox!

“Yeah, folks, sorry about that, but we gotta lock you down again,” says Chief Phrenologist Otto Blotto, of the World Wellness Fanabla (WWF). “Thank goodness we already have drop boxes, absentee ballot forms, and mail-in ballots stockpiled in Mordor. So it won’t affect the midterm elections.”

According to information found inside a box of Lucky Charms, sea monkeypox can be contracted by anyone (and probably everyone) living within 2,500 miles of any salt water. Symptoms include a weird-looking physique, growth of a caudal appendage (he means a tail), a sudden eagerness to be trained, and shrinkage down to the size of a brine shrimp. Successful therapy includes casting multiple votes for the Democrat candidate in your district.

At all times, Dr. Blotto added, the WWF will live true to its Scientific Motto: “Democracy dies when Democrats don’t win.”

‘The March for Bullsh–er, Science’ (2017)

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March for Science: Rallies worldwide to protest against political interference - BBC News

How many Useful Idiots can a civilization carry before it collapses?

Now that King COVID has pretty much worn out his welcome, libs ‘n’ progs are reviving Climbit Chainge as the universal boogieman–and the latest thing that only a global government, run by themselves, can save us from.

But in those balmy days five years ago, it was all about making an idol of Science.

‘The March for Bullsh–er, Science’

Oops, wait a minute. It’s still about that, isn’t it?

I’m not even sure what “science” means anymore. When Democrats use it, watch out for your money and keep an even closer eye on your liberty. They mean to take both.

‘The Science Catechism’ (Newswithviews, 2018)

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Mad Scientists: When the Scientist Becomes the Subject - Endocrine News

I’m still finding it hard to concentrate long enough to produce anything like a Newswithviews column. Maybe next week, I pray.

Meanwhile, here’s one from 2018 (Good grief! Was that really five years ago? Where does the time go?)

The science catechism

If you’re gonna study computer models instead of reality, and sit like pirates’ parrots on the shoulders of statist politicians, and swoon with admiration whenever you look in the mirror–

Well, you can at least feel like a scientist.

COVID… Forever?

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The Psychology Behind Coronavirus Panic Buying | INSEAD Knowledge

Somewhere along the way, this whole COVID business stopped being about “Science”–if indeed it ever was about that.

Now the Narrative (nooze-speak for “thumping great lie”) seems to be shifting from “Omigod we’re all gonna die!” to “It’s those unvaccinated enemies of the People–we’re gonna die because of them!” Hear the teeth gnashing in the background.

The disease kills less than 1% of those who get it. For that we turn whole national economies upside-down? For that we scrap our family holidays? For that we hand over unprecedented powers to bunches of bureaucrats and scheming, slimy politicians? For that we set up… camps? (Yes, Australia has done that. COVID stalags. You could look it up.)

Oh, boy. Call out the troops! Back to vote-by-mail! Lockdown, lockdown! “The Omicron Variant is sweeping across the world….” [dissolve into hysterical screaming]. And we’ve still got about half the Greek alphabet to go!

It’s very difficult to resist seeing this as part of a satanic drive to a totalitarian global government run by mentally ill persons and based on a foundation of COVID panic, phony Climate Change, transgender, and Critical Race Theory. Those are the four corners of the prison that they’re building for us.

We appeal to the Judge of all the earth.