Navigatng the Chaos - Part 9 - When do People deny the Science?

 People deny science when they:

• Politicize the science

• Insist that the science in one area or another is settled (science is never settled)

• Argue that there is only one specific form of the scientific method

• Draw conclusions that extend beyond the specific area of investigation

• Prejudice Rationalism over Empiricism

• Insist that public opinion determines the result

• Deny whole bodies of research as the outcomes may be inconvenient to the status quo

• Fail to challenge the bias of authority (people in power)

• Fail to report on the limitations of a specific scientific model

• Use terms that have no meaning in a scientific sense

• Promote pseudo-scientific junk that has an emotional utility

• Selectively use statistics to distort the result

• Fail to insist that experiments ought to be replicated

• Fail to understand the limitations of science and employ its methodology in areas that extend beyond the material

• Insist that science 'proves' something when in reality, it provides more evidence in support of (or against) a certain model - science is inductive, not deductive.

Reflections LII - Dialing back Decadence

Western Europe is at a time in its history where it is paying Dangeld so that the barbarians from within delays its final meal.

An obvious failure that we made in the west was to assume that elitist intent was guided by integrity and a sound moral foundation. It never was.

Any fool can redistribute wealth but only talented people can create it. Socialism conflates this distinction.

A common feature of all radical collectivist ideologies is the negation of the individual human spirit. Human worth is recalibrated to fit the machine.

The more I study history the more I realize that this tremendous yet uncalled faith in big government drives us from one crisis to another.

No war is won with a proportionate response. The US repaid the Japanese almost a thousand times over for the deaths resulting from the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hatred is one of the most powerful dynamics that define the human condition. People will literally destroy themselves and harm their own personal well being in order to satiate this demon. Islamism in particular is fueled by such caustic pathos.

The most dangerous common of human traits that one often encounters is the combination of self righteousness and stupidity. In the modern world this sits at the core of Wokeism.