The Failure of Science Is Worse Than You Think

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-failure-of-science-is-worse-than-you-think-5590991

The Failure of Science Is Worse Than You Think

By Jeffrey A. Tucker
2/20/24

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For most of our lives, we trusted that scientific authorities speak with the truths they know from evidence. This has grown over the centuries with gradual discoveries. These discoveries are incorporated into the knowledge set and put into practice in medicine, health, chemistry, physics, or any other field.

These discoveries are storied and beloved. We tell the stories because they flatter us into thinking that humanity—meaning us!—is always improving.

So we have a list of heroes who made us better: Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Pasteur, Darwin, Einstein, Edison, and on it goes, upwards unto the light. The belief in the progress of science is central to the historiography of the West, and to the very idea of the Enlightenment. What a tribute to the power of the mind and to our capacity as people to advance.

This is how it stood in public health. We have learned so much since the bad old days when the local water pump spewed out cholera into the whole community and certainly since rats crawled all over the grain and spread the black death. Now we clean things and deploy high-minded techniques to guarantee the health of the community rather than panic and pump people full of snake oil or attach leeches to people and bleed them.

Aren’t we wonderful!

Then 2020 happened. Suddenly the entire game plan on pandemics completely flipped. All known wisdom was tossed out. The elites blabbed to the world that they just have no idea how it spreads even though it was clearly a coronavirus. They didn’t know the latency period even though that has been known for many decades. They didn’t know any therapeutics even though Nobel Prizes have been given for them and there were a dozen off-patent drugs available.

Then they started making up insane things. The virus could be on your grocery bags! It is floating around in rooms without people! You have to wash and sanitize your hands 17 times a day! You need to install all kinds of air filter systems immediately! Put up Plexiglas everywhere! Better yet, just stay put. Sit on your sofa and be as still as possible. Don’t move a muscle, then you might not get sick.

Finally, they said they had a magic potion that would fix the problem. It’s a new thing, a gene therapy that comes wrapped in little capsules that we inject into your skin. It’s been tested as 95 percent effective, and you know that’s true because it is a number with a percent. There are no side effects even though there was no way they could know that regardless.

What in the world was going on? Essentially, all old science was tossed out and new science replaced it except that the replacement was not science. It was some kind of method for social control. And with it came all kinds of other things. Get rid of your gas car and drive this golf cart! Stop eating meat and eat bugs! Don’t go to church! Don’t sing! Strap this cloth around your face and walk around keeping others safe!

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It is amazing what lies can be held up as true when the people are in full panic mode.

While a select few 'scientists' in privileged positions passed the lies out to a willing media, it was that Media which propagated those lies, on the half-hour (or more often), who pushed panic (if it bleeds it leads), who whipped up the populace to a fearful frothing frenzy so intense that even Americans were calling for pogroms against those who would not march in lockstep with the Narrative, regardless of their credentials.

Yes, science was thrown out the window.

Known information, dating back to SARS (the original) and earlier, was not only ignored, but actively suppressed by censors operating in the very public marketplaces of ideas that could have provided the information exchange that would have saved the lives of millions.

This was no accident, because the issues which were most egregiously censored were key to profits of tens of billions of dollars, some of which 'trickled down' to the selfsame people who were making the pronouncements, in one form or another.

The payola is ongoing, as virtually every pod of commercials aired has at least one prescription drug being promoted, commonly by those companies who made the greatest profits off the Pandemic. (Just doin' bid'ness, right?)

Yes, you can blame those who even claimed to be "The Science", but at the bottom of this dungheap, its true foundation lies in the Media who never questioned the Narrative, but promoted it overtly through repetition or covertly by censoring any voices that spoke otherwise, effectively stifling the very discussion that is so fundamentally vital to science itself.