Confessions of a Science Denier

 

When ever somebody calls me a science denier I admit to it. I am a science denier. I mean it. I don’t believe in science.

 

 

 

This might sound retarded so let me elaborate on that. I don’t mean I think the Earth is flat or that various diseases are caused by curses. I reject the notion of science being the ultimate truth.

 

 

 

Doesn’t sound any better, eh?

 

 

 

Well let’s put it this way. I have seen some science over the past decade that it utter BS. I have seen it go unchallenged and used as a basis of legislation. Some of it stuff that you can debunk in a minute if you have access to the internet. Things related to climate change, medicine, wage gap, womens rights, ethnicity, economics, social issues. Just look at the Canadian bill C-16, Paris climate agreement, Euro crisis. There are scientists supporting each policy and throwing their scientific weight on the matter and yet it’s easy to see that the whole thing is as phony as a three-dollar-bill.

 

 

 

You might say science is not always correct but there is a process that corrects its course. When we discover something new the science improves. It doesn’t seem to. We know climate change isn’t real. Not in the way it’s presented to us anyway. We know the wage gap is due to hours put into work and career choices. What difference does it make? None. These things are now guiding our legislation and speaking the truth about it makes you a science denier. So be it. If science is so vulnerable against these hacks then I don’t think it’s something to put your faith on.

 

 

 

When you think of scientists you might think of the likes of Einstein, Bohr and Newton. I got news for you. Most scientists are no Einstein. They are collage graduates who have no proper job or qualifications. They are trying to publish something to get ahead and oftentimes anything goes. And if you connect breast cancer to climate change you’ll improve your chances of getting funding also next time. This is one the methods science is reinforcing false beliefs. Few scientists are smart enough to follow the evidence if it leads to something against the consensus and even fewer have the courage and integrity to do so.

 

 

 

Have you ever heard of the hockey stick? Also known as Mikes’ nature trick. You average data covering millions of years – having first filtered out all the inconvenient bits because reasons – and then you pick some data – that you don’t average - that makes it seem that the resent worming is unheard of in the history of the globe. And nobody calls you out on it because they like your results. That Climate science is so full of nature tricks that I won’t believe any of it. And some of the stuff I reject might actually be real. I just have no way of telling if that’s the case.

 

 

 

Climate science is a ripping off medieval catholicism with carbon dioxide as the original sin and carbon tax as indulgence. You need to confess to your sins and accept the the shabby bearded pullover guys’ mambo jumbo as the truth because other bearded pullover guys said so. Only these eccentric weirdos can read the will of higher powers from the wind and fish entrails and know how to appease them. The devoted followers practice daily rituals of separating the trash – even when they know it is all going to end up in the same pile on the dump site.

 

 

 

Medical research is another notoriously biased field. The funding often comes from big farma and until quite recently they typically held all rights to the results of a study. Bad results were never published. Now there is more legislation on the matter but they still dictate what is researched and how. You still get the results you want. Besides negative results do not get published in the journals. A study that debunks a claim has a lot smaller chances of ever getting published than a study that reinforces a claim. Every year there are hundreds of prescription drugs pulled of the market because of side effects – or because they don’t actually work.

 

 

 

For half a century they have been telling us butter and animal fat is causing heart disease. They made us eat highly processed margarines and low fat high sugar yogurts for all my youth. Only Cro-Magnonish science deniers held on to real butter and fatty products. Heck, they had a huge international study to prove it ( that had the acronym CCCP of all possible letter combinations, Comprehensive Cardiovascular Community Control Programme). Now we know it was all fabricated. There were all kinds of medical experts and scientists telling us how bad the other stuff was and pushing it into legislation through guide lines and official recommendations. Once you dig into that you find that the evidence linking animal fats to heart disease was always very questionable and that ideological vegetarianism and originally American corn industry lobbied that thing into scientific consensus.

 

 

 

I won’t even write anything about the humanities and social sciences except for the fact that they are science. It’s in the name. And if it is all science I think you should rate their credibility based on the weakest link.

 

 

 

You might say these people are not real scientists. They are hacks who have hijacked science, sell-outs or just putting their political agenda in a scientific suit. They are not real scientists. I respond to you that Rastafaris never die and when one dies it shows he wasn’t a real Rastafari. No true Scotsman and so forth. If the “real” scientists are not calling these hacks out in numbers that means that science has no credibility. It’s just a way to push political agenda or gain position in society and I’ll have none of it.