Science Is Imploding Thanks To Politics...

[Webster]

Science is imploding

Anybody who has been following the actual scientific research and debates about climate already knows that the enterprise is hopelessly compromised by politics....

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Anybody who has been following the actual scientific research and debates about climate already knows that the enterprise is hopelessly compromised by politics.

Yet in the case of climate research, we shouldn’t be surprised. Literally trillions of dollars are at stake, as well as the ability of the Establishment to take control over every aspect of our lives. It would be a wonder if money and politics DIDN’T come to corrupt the entire field.

Unfortunately, the politicization of that field opened the door to politicizing every aspect of science, and that effort is bearing fruit. There are few areas of study where politics has not become the dominant variable in determining what is funded, what is studied, what can be said, who can say it, and what is published.

As the current generation of scientists ages out, few people will be left to push back in defense of actual science. We saw this process take place in the Soviet Union with Lysenkoism, and it got so bad that the only fields that weren’t completely ruined were physics and mathematics. The Russians still excel in those fields, but in nothing else due to the Soviet hangover. That process is well on its way to destroying science in the West, although technical fields are still thriving. But anything that can touch on politics is fundamentally compromised....

 

[MrDawn]

This is just one of those things I quit paying attention to a long time ago.

 

[Webster]

This is just one of those things I quit paying attention to a long time ago.

To all those who say they don’t care about the culture war, Erick Erickson has only one response: "The Left will not let you stay on the sidelines. You will be made to care." (You Will Be Made to Care: The War on Faith, Family, and Your Freedom to Believe -- Erick Erickson, Bill Blankschaen)

Erick Erickson was right then and as I've come to learn and find out, he's just as right today; the Left does not. One way or the other, you will be made to care.

Andrew Breitbart said it even simpler...

You can say you don't care, Wessel, and that's your right, but you'll be swept up in it the same way everyone else is.

 

[MrDawn]

You can say you don't care, Wessel, and that's your right, but you'll be swept up in it the same way everyone else is.

I try to quit paying attention because a lot of it stresses me out. I think we should try to find a happy place @Webster

 

[DrLeftover]

This is exactly what happened in Italy after the crackdown on Galileo.

True scientific research moved North, out of the reach of those who were enforcing doctrine.

 

[Nebulous]

I try to quit paying attention because a lot of it stresses me out. I think we should try to find a happy place @Webster

Same here. The news stresses me out

 

[Scarlet Rose]

Science and politics have always had a relationship with each other. That climate science has political implications and connections is nothing new. The nature of climate change and its geopolitical and historical connections mean that it is by definition going to be an incredibly politically loaded field of study. Ironically the quoted text in the initial post is guilty of trying to mask and hide a lot of the politics behind climate science. Indeed their denial extends to almost the entire practice of science itself.

 

[Nebulous]

Science and politics have always had a relationship with each other. That climate science has political implications and connections is nothing new. The nature of climate change and its geopolitical and historical connections mean that it is by definition going to be an incredibly politically loaded field of study. Ironically the quoted text in the initial post is guilty of trying to mask and hide a lot of the politics behind climate science. Indeed their denial extends to almost the entire practice of science itself.

Makes sense to me.