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Real Tragedy of 'Science': Public Faith Declines as Fakery Grows
• Daily BellMajor publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal ... A major publisher of scholarly medical and science articles has retracted 43 papers because of "fabricated" peer reviews amid signs of a broader fake peer review racket affecting many more publications. – Washington Post
Dominant Social Theme: Science saves us?
Free-Market Analysis: The breadth of this scandal (see excerpt above) is extraordinary and comes not long after a top executive at Monsanto issued a plaintive tweet lamenting the West's eroding faith in "science." You can see our Monsanto analysis here:
Monsanto Laments Dwindling Faith in Science
We wrote:
As we have noted in the past, the current status quo emphasizes "experts" and "expertise." In part this is because the foundational meme of modern society is based on central banking – and central bankers are presented as having the expertise to predict the future.
If people generally came to doubt the ability of central bankers to peer into the future in order to generate accurate monetary prices, then central banking itself would become a doubtful proposition. The same thing holds true in other fields.
Science – faith in science – was supposed to justify the modern technocratic society. It is in fact an ancient manipulation. The meme of the "expert" is that of the technocrat – a model of social manipulation that dates back at least to Socrates and his theory that "philosopher kings" ought to run the world.
When we called science a "manipulation" a month ago, we didn't except to receive such efficient confirmation as this so quickly.
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1 Comments in Response to Real Tragedy of 'Science': Public Faith Declines as Fakery Grows
If anyone has any doubts that science is NOT what it is cracked up top be, just think about how long people live in the scientifically advanced countries. People still live less than 100 years with a few exceptions. Yet there are many countries that are NOT scientifically advanced where people live as long or longer than those in the scientifically advanced countries.
Where's the long-promised cures for cancer and heart disease? If your cancer happens to be a bad one, doctors will tell you right out that you will probably die, but that if you live, it will only be for 5 more years or so. And the promise of a cure for heart disease existed way back in the 1920s, but there is no cure around at all. The best you can find are all kinds of work-arounds, like stints, or by-pass surgery.
Science is a big flop. It hasn't really done anything that is really important. People should at least be living in good health to the age of 500 years... if science was any good, that is.