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Originally published January 21 2011 by Natural News
The downfall of
science and the rise of intellectual tyranny
by Mike
Adams, the Health Ranger,
NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) The very reputation of
so-called "science" has been
irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term "science" by GMO
lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners
who all claim to have science on their side. It seems that every toxin,
contamination and chemical disaster that now infects our planet has
been evangelized in the name of "science."
Where "science" used to be highly
regarded in the 1950's, today the
term is largely exploited by pharmaceutical companies,
biotech giants and chemical
companies to push their own for-profit agendas. Actual science has little
to do with the schemes now being pushed under the veil of science.
To make matters even worse for the
sciences, many so-called "science bloggers" have
been revealed to have financial ties to the very same companies whose
profits are shored up by their activities (http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/08/...).
Rather than defending any sort of
scientific truth, science bloggers
have become the
internet whores of Big Pharma, Monsanto,
pesticide manufacturers, chemical companies and toxic mercury factories.
There's hardly a dangerous chemical in widespread use today that the
science bloggers haven't venomously defended as safe and effective.
Many are just blatantly paid off by corporate entities to run around
the internet pushing GMOs, chemicals and
vaccines.
This realization has caused the science
bloggers to be widely ridiculed
by intelligent people who see right through their thinly-veiled (but
well-funded) disinformation campaigns. Where science bloggers once had
credibility, they now are seen as intellectual prostitutes for
dangerous corporate agendas that benefit powerful companies at the
expense of environmental health and human
health.
If they weren't doing all this in the
name of science, it wouldn't be
so bad, actually. If they called themselves "corporate whore bloggers"
instead of "science bloggers," their actions wouldn't be so harmful to
the reputation of science itself. But, to the great detriment of actual
science, they insist on calling themselves "science bloggers."
Now
the reputation of
"science" itself is suffering
Because
the for-profit GMO
sellouts, poison
pushers, vaccine
zealots and corporate front groups continue to conduct their activities
under the false name of "science," the term is losing its meaning. This
should be cause for alarm among those who practice legitimate science.
(Where are the astrobiologists when you need them?)
As we've seen all too frequently,
"science" can be easily distorted or
exploited to achieve a desired political or profiteering goal. But the
ruse is rather apparent -- the public is awakening to the science fraud and learning
that the term "science" doesn't really mean what it used to. It's
suffering a loss of reputation to such a degree that the term
"science" no longer means a system whereby intellectually honest people
search for the underlying truths of how nature operates. Today,
"science" is used not to search for truth, but to distort
the truth.
Replace
"science" with
"fraud" to understand the spin
Instead
of seeking knowledge and
understanding, for example, "science" is used as an intellectual
bludgeon to halt rational skepticism and discussion on topics such as
GMOs, vaccines,
mercury fillings, fluoride
in the water, the mysterious deaths of animals, the collapse of
honeybee populations and so on. It's a kind of intellectual tyranny that
has been invoked against those who oppose any kind of corporate agenda
that can be dressed up to look like actual science.
In several contexts, the term "science"
has become synonymous with
"fraud." As in the following headlines (replace "science" with "fraud"
as you read them):
"It has now been revealed that the
researchers who made up the
fictitious study results were engaged in SCIENCE."
Or:
"When asked how he came up with the
fabricated clinical trial data
upon which the FDA approved the drug, discredited
researcher Humphrey Brokendata explained he was only engaged in
SCIENCE."
In fact, the vast majority of the popular
news reports you might read
about so-called "scientific" findings make a whole lot more sense if
you replace the word "science" with "fraud." For example, imagine the
words being exchanged in these headlines:
• GMOs backed by
solid SCIENCE
• FDA insists its drug approvals are
based on SCIENCE
• Monsanto claims the SCIENCE behind its
seed technology is better than
ever
• Vaccines stand their ground this flu season thanks to
SCIENCE
You see how suddenly everything makes
more sense on these particular
topics when you replace "science" with "fraud?"
This isn't a stretch, either. The
"scientific" agenda behind GMOs, for
example, has absolutely nothing to do with real science. It is a
corporate for-profit agenda that seeks control over the world's food supply
while forcing farmers to buy seeds year after year
from one centralized corporate entity. That's not science. It's just a monopolistic
crime against humanity to assault the basic rights of people to be
able to grow their own foods
and harvest their own seeds without worrying about those seeds being
contaminated with genetic pollution
from genetically engineered crops.
The real science on GMOs indicates that reasonable
people have
every right to be concerned about the DNA pollution of the foods
that feed our world. But through the blasphemous invocation of the term
"unscientific," the GMO pushers attempt to characterize rational,
reasonable people who hold concerns about GMOs as "unscientific." As if
they didn't believe in the Law of Gravity or Newtonian physics for
macro-sized objects.
This
endless assault on common sense by
those who use the term "science" as a cover for dangerous global
experiments in plant and human biology will only further discredit
the scientific community.
When you see "scientific" doctors and dentists putting their
reputations behind things like water fluoridation --
which is the blatant mass pollution of the water supply
with a toxic hazardous waste chemical -- it's no surprise why the
street cred of so-called "scientific thinkers" continues to erode.
This is all very sad to see, of course. I
consider myself a proponent
of scientific thinking, and I strongly value the Scientific Method as
one approach to gaining knowledge. I'm educated in microbiology,
genetics, physics and have acquired a considerable amount of scientific
knowledge in many other areas. I'm currently studying M-theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory)
and the intersection of quantum physics with consciousness.
(There's a taboo topic in conventional scientific circles for ya --
don't talk about consciousness, for God's sake! To quote Einstein, God may not play dice
with the universe... but consciousness does!)
As a proponent of scientific discovery,
even I have to admit that
science has lost its credibility due in large part to the corporate
takeover of science. Whereas science was once a popular and highly
respected field of study for young thinkers, very few people in America
enter the sciences these days. More and more people are waking up to
the reality that many of the great evils that have been unleashed
upon our world have been conducted in the name of science: GMOs,
seasonal flu vaccines, plastic food containers, pesticides,
mercury poisoning, fluoride in the water supply, psychiatric
pharmaceuticals and so on.
Science, it turns out, hasn't saved us:
It has quite possibly doomed
us. The destruction that has already been unleashed upon our world in
the name of science may not be reversible in the era of humankind. We
may be setting ourselves up for a global food supply
catastrophe due to GMOs and pesticides, for example, and literally
billions of human beings may ultimately die from it. "Science" was the
invocation behind GMOs and pesticides, even though in truth the whole
scheme was pulled off through what can only be called "junk science" or
"selected science."
Real
science is a valid
tool when used with integrity
Again, it
saddens me to see science
misappropriated in this way, because true science is a valid and
valuable method by which human beings can seek to gain understanding
about the universe in which we live. It is not the only pathway to
knowledge, of course (a frequent mistaken assumption by those who are
steeped in it), but it is a valuable one nonetheless. Yet thanks to
today's corporate-led "scientific" schemes involving GMOs, vaccines,
pesticides and other chemicals, the value of science itself is being
rapidly lost to the intellectual tyranny demonstrated by those who
destroy our world in the name of science.
Where real scientists once used to
welcome debate
and
discussion, today's "science" advocate operate with the intellectual
finesse and flexibility of a two-ton block of granite. You either agree
with them or you are branded an idiot. There is no discussion, no
debate, no thought and no real science involved. On so many of the big
issues that matter today -- vaccines, GMOs, mercury, fluoride,
pesticides and so on -- the "science" position is that of a
self-proclaimed dictator (or tyrant) who believes he causes things to
be true and factual through the mere act of stating them. That isn't
science. It's just an advanced form of arrogant bullying framed
in the language of science and carried aloft by a never-ending
stream of corporate dollars.
It is, in essence, intellectual
tyranny.
Science
may yet destroy
us
It was
Oppenheimer who, after playing a
key role in the invention of the atomic bomb, quoted these words from
the ancient Hindu text known as the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am
become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
Today, a very large segment of the
scientific community is engaged in
much the same behavior: Destroying our world through the incessant and
utterly unscientific advocacy of dangerous, destructive interventions
that threaten our food, our waterways and the very future of life on Earth.
So-called "science," it seems, may
ultimately be the destroyer of life
as we know it on our planet. And yet "science" is worshipped by its
followers as the savior of life on Earth. There is a dangerous
disconnect in that situation. Perhaps one of Biblical proportion.
I suspect that one day a future alien civilization
will study the history of humankind and attempt to determine how we
destroyed ourselves. After sorting through the decomposed rubbish of
the long-extinct human civilization, one alien will turn to the other
alien and nod its head to say, "It seems their civilization was based
on SCIENCE FRAUD."
P.S. For the record, I am not
opposed to actual science, nor the
use of the Scientific Method as one avenue through which wisdom may be
gained. There are other methods of gaining
wisdom, however, such as spirituality, meditation, the study of
consciousness and even quantum connections between sentient beings. All
of these non-science methods are utterly disregarded by the
"scientific" community which believes so strongly in its own dogma that
the brains of its top scientists have no room left for any ideas other
than their own. That is, by the way, the very definition of a closed
mind. It also happens to be the reason why conventional science only
advances at the speed at which its dogmatic intellectual tyrants retire
or perish.
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