I really admire people who are willing to take a stand against group think and thought police. Unfortunately a lot of what presents itself as “science” these days is just an appeal to authority, and the ridiculously exploitative and hierarchical way that academia is set up makes it very difficult to go against the consensus.
I really admire people who are willing to take a stand against group think and thought police. Unfortunately a lot of what presents itself as “science” these days is just an appeal to authority, and the ridiculously exploitative and hierarchical way that academia is set up makes it very difficult to go against the consensus.
The problem is always when science becomes political, which is exactly what happened with COVID and why I think you got banned. There’s just too much at stake for the people in power and they always have that trump card of implying that you’re anti science or anti vaccinations just for thinking critically.
My personal experience with this is from intelligent design, which is obviously extremely political and almost equal to flat-earthism in some circles. But it suffers from the same forces of censorship, misrepresentation, and lack of engagement as these other examples even though the core beliefs are absolutely defensible: that life has too much information content to spontaneously emerge from non life. You should check out the history of the movement, the more you know the more your blood boils. https://evolutionnews.org/category/science/intelligent-design/
I really admire people who are willing to take a stand against group think and thought police. Unfortunately a lot of what presents itself as “science” these days is just an appeal to authority, and the ridiculously exploitative and hierarchical way that academia is set up makes it very difficult to go against the consensus.
The problem is always when science becomes political, which is exactly what happened with COVID and why I think you got banned. There’s just too much at stake for the people in power and they always have that trump card of implying that you’re anti science or anti vaccinations just for thinking critically.
My personal experience with this is from intelligent design, which is obviously extremely political and almost equal to flat-earthism in some circles. But it suffers from the same forces of censorship, misrepresentation, and lack of engagement as these other examples even though the core beliefs are absolutely defensible: that life has too much information content to spontaneously emerge from non life. You should check out the history of the movement, the more you know the more your blood boils. https://evolutionnews.org/category/science/intelligent-design/