Timothy Birdnow

I am always a bit reluctant to post things from Natural News; it tends to be a bit, well, nutty on occasion. But I just found this interesting article that I want to pass along. Entitled "The top 10 most outrageous science hoaxes of 2016" it goes on to delineate, well, faux science that masqueraded as infallible last year.

The author identifies ten top "hoaxes". They are:

Science Hoax #1: "Scientific” political polling

Science Hoax #2: The Zika virus terror campaign

Science Hoax #3: The Flint Michigan lead poisoning cover-up

Science Hoax #4: The banning of GMO labeling nationwide by scientifically illiterate Republicans

Science Hoax #5: Climate change data fraud

Science Hoax #6: Abortion organ harvesting for "scientific research”

Science Hoax #7: The California vaccine mandate

Science Hoax #8: Janet Yellen’s libtardtopia economics "science”

Science Hoax #9: Transgenderism and the lunatic liberal "theory of spontaneous genetic transmutation”

Science Hoax #10: Every science "journalist” working for the fakestream media

I agree in most but not all cases; certainly "fraud" #4 - the business about labeling GMO foods - is hardly a hoax as the altered food is no different than the "natural" food that was genetically manipulated. I also question the vaccination "fraud" although I don't know enough of the details about the argument to really weigh in on the subject. But author Mike Adams is correct about the rest, and he makes the very important point that science has become superstitiion in many ways, a tool of liberalism. Also, the claim that science journalists would be better writing for the food section or about traffic issues is spot-on; most science writers understand virtually nothing about their chosen subject.

(On the topic of genetically modified foods - gmo - I would like to point out that yes, there are dangers in doing what we are doing but not at the consumer end. GMO foods are patented and often have a kill gene making the crops produce sterile seeds. This is a big deal in that an emergency - a real emergency - would make it impossible for farmers to produce food for a starving public. If America were hit by an EMP, say, farmers would be not only unable to produce large crops but any at all. And there is the danger of creating new crop diseases that come with the modifications. That is a terrible danger of all genetic manipulation, and one we ignore at our peril.)

Nietzche predicted the decline of Science back in the 19th century and for the very reasons we now see; science would begin questioning the fundamental beliefs that propel it, and in the end it would become a farce. He is correct; there is an ever-increasing disbelief in the nature of reality as a concrete, inescapable thing. More and more we are to believe reality is subjective, and increasingly we are treated to the spectacle of science whores, researchers who sell their services to the liberals who run the government for funding. If there is not a jealous defense of reality in the minds of scientists then it is no big deal to fudge research results to get a few extra bucks. And if reality is subjective then there is nothing really wrong with using science to manipulate things in the direction you want it to go.

To most Americans we are at the pinnacle of scientific discovery and in many ways we are, but I would argue it is a residual effect, the momentum of a bygone golden age of science. In time our discoveries will slow, our advances will decline, and the West at least will cease to be the torch-bearer but will instead become the backwater. It's a matter of time.

And as Americans continue to lose their grips on reality, living inside social media and other artificial realities that alienate them from the perceptual universe, science will continue to decline in favor of wishful thinking and illusion. We are skipping merrily down the road to disaster.

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