COVID, Gender, Climate, and the Collapse
of Science

Liberal’s rewriting science just like they are doing with history. Wipe out known truths and replace with whatever is needed to support their political agenda. No more male and female, normal weather changes are climate change, American history vs 1619, and on and on. Next thing you’ll hear is that Joe Biden is actually a genius./s

Not really true. Science is doing fine, particularly in the area of cancer treatment, electronics and materials sciences. The problem is not science, it's that that non-scientists can profit very nicely by spieling politically-motivated nonsense. Scientists think up some fun or potentially valuable idea about the world and then test the idea to see if it is wrong. They publish the data they generate under a strict set of rules -- every statement made in the paper must be supported by prior literature or experimental data, and every experiment must be described so that someone else can replicate the experiment. As a result, science is seen as hard to read. Consequently, unscrupulous editors and writers (and politicians) can be confident that their readers will never check if what they write has any factual basis in the scientific literature. The cure is simple -- make a little effort to read a scientific journal. Just scanning the contents page of the New England Journal of Medicine would be a good start.

No matter the subject, whenever the left declares the science is settled, you know they are lying.

I'm afraid it will all get worse when "AI" becomes more prevalent. There have been great gains in some areas due to expert systems that have become learning systems due to AI. However, there has been no general AI software created that could even approach human intellect. That will not prevent many from accepting AI software as above human intellect and unquestionable. AI and certification of AI would have been a great topic for a September issue of Scientific American if it had not been already corrupted by politics.

Very nicely put. but again - what is the plan for undoing the damage? No one seems to have any idea.

Well, there's Science, and then there's democrat science, that's the one the democrat party writes and uses, as needed.

I guess the ice and snow in Iowa have melted as the weirdos all crawling out again.

I'm a published, now retired, scientist. During the years that I worked in the field, I saw the state of science go from a cadre of dedicated researchers to a cabal of paper-pushers whose main concern was publishing articles, to get grants, so that they could get paid. Many high-level university research positions these days are unsalaried; researchers are expected to scrounge for government grants to pay their own salaries. The quality of research has suffered as a result- positive, popular, and politically correct results became an assurance of publication, and many in the field were willing to cut corners to get an article published. One study has shown that 70% of the published results cannot be replicated. The problem began when the government stepped in to "help". Not only were grants now easier to obtain if the results followed the official line, but the universities themselves quickly discovered that they could exact an "administrative fee" from these grants to line their own pockets. Researchers whose work did not enrich the university, those who preferred to teach, for example, were often denied tenure. The only safe route was to publish echo-chamber junk science that parroted the views of the majority and did not upset the university administration.

#8 shows why I revere Lucianne.com as an information source. Honest posters, who worked and lived in the trenches, providing truth. Where else can you find it?

My problem is when "science" lies. We've recently been advised that ivermectin is useless against COVID based on a randomized controlled study. That's all we hear. "Ivermectin bad". Kinda like "orange man bad". It turns out that study has been literally SHREDDED by experts who have evaluated how the test was designed and run. During their sifting process, they found that Bill Gates funded the test. Hmmm I think poster #8 knows more than the rest of us how this works. Junk science for sale. Then Fauci uses it to misguide our lives. I have no trust any more. Do you have any idea how many people died because of misguided medical mistreatment ruling out therapeutics? Do you have any idea how many people died because of supposedly "safe" vaccines? Do you have any idea how many lives have been ruined by these "safe efficacious" vaccines...that don't actually work? Booster number 4 anyone? We have been lied to egregiously by the people we are supposed to trust. NO MORE!

Why has all this mad stuff happened? Kurtzman implies the answer a sentence or two later when he speaks of a “diabolical” effort to undermine the foundations of society. This illness is spiritual, on a vast, cosmic scale.

My history and conclusions are very similar to Westernchapper, reinforced by slipstick. It gives me hope that humanity will survive in spite of ourselves. Certainly going through a bad spell at the moment, though. Nice article in A.G.

science's first mistake was to not admit that the universe has always been, is now and will be, forever and forever because God wanted it that way

Scientists are people who, like most people, would like to be rich. To be a rich scientist, you need grant money (and friends in high places), and grant money largely comes from the government, which is run by bureaucrats and politicians, who would also like to be rich (well, richer). Here's a scientific formula for the relationship between Science (S) and Politics (P): S + P = P.