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Jim Olson's avatar

"the Rochelle Walensky school of philosophy"

Great line!

Gunther Heinz's avatar

I would call it the "piling on" school of philosophy. Just keep piling on the bullshit.

Kent Clizbe's avatar

Without reading Hyde's whole writing, just seeing the quotes here, the thought pops up:

"Is he serious?"

Or is he writing satire?

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Kent Clizbe's avatar

Yeah, that's what the quotes from the article seemed to point to.

But, at the same time, it also reads completely like what "The Science" believes and "Scientists" practice.

But, then again...with Prof. Briggs, you never know.

He could be either making the whole thing up, as a brilliant satire, or he could be over-emphasizing some real statements to create satire.

Whichever, Briggs once again reveals the breath-taking evil of "The Science.

la chevalerie vit's avatar

One could say the scientific method has the motto “Mistrust the Science” due to its emphasis on replication of others’ results, whereas rubes adhere to “Trust the Scientism. It is hard to believe this is a real paper, not one submitted as a joke. The lack of ethics is astounding; the apparent lack of discussion of ethics and morality as a decision factor shows it has no place in modern science, rendering modern science untrustworthy. Science-like activities perpetrated by lying people who lack morals earn a response of incredulity. In any case scientists, and scientismists, should stay away from policy making as that is not their lane.

Tardigrade's avatar

Richard Feynman had a lot to say about mistrusting the science, and especially your own results.

la chevalerie vit's avatar

yea - what did he know 🙄

Amat's avatar

All my working life as a nurse the emphasis was on honesty to our patients and relatives, we don't lie to make things seem better because it never does the truth always comes out at some point especially when it has to do with the individuals health and wellbeing. There is absolutely no excuse for lying especially in the medical and science field, it is deluded thinking if they conceal the truth so that "trust" and compliance is maintained, it can cost people their lives. Nothing good comes from lying, they lied during the covid debacle and it has destroyed my confidence in science and medicine.

Syd York's avatar

Does Mr. Hyde consider the question of how the public got the idea that science is infallible?

The public didn't make that idea up - it was inculcated in the public through academic propaganda intended to increase the social status, influence, and material wealth of academics.

The not-Unintended Consequence? Big Business and Big Government using claims of scientific truth to increase profits and social control.

The Technocratic Ideal, as propounded by Progressive ideology, was always an overt form of class warfare intended to enslave the masses.

It has resulted in men like Hyde, aptly named, who are utterly soulless and lack the capacity to consider how morally bankrupt is their worldview.

the long warred's avatar

Solutions = Funding.

And COMPLY.

Of course Scientific Managerialism requires Scientism.

The Science of Gain and Power aka Funding and Compliance is Settled.

AhhhMon. 🙏🏻

Lon Guyland's avatar

I trust science, whatever that might mean.

It’s the scientists, especially those like Hyde, I don’t trust. “We are the anointed ones, even when we are wrong we are right.”

Hubris like that is never not accompanied by a slide into evil. Whether Hyde is at the top the slope, flirting with oblivion, or is well down it is between him and the Creator.

Tardigrade's avatar

'Climactic Research Unit'

That would be sex researchers. Did you instead mean this? https://www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-centres/climatic-research-unit

;)

ScuzzaMan's avatar

We are all sex researchers.

Like every other branch of science, some investigator's methods are more rigorous than others.

AndyinBC's avatar

I caught that one too!

PE Bird's avatar

I wonder how much of that paper was deliberately lying to see if we would fall for it?

Gwyneth's avatar

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.

- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Rat's avatar

If they're caught lying and get away with it, it may impair whatever trust the general public had in them; but it improves their recruiting power, purely quantitatively.

Adverse selection has been going on for quite some time already.

David Sharples's avatar

Nothing! puts a chill up my spine more than when a doctor, or scientist says:

"The ends justify the means... "

A Whip of Cords's avatar

I’m not shocked by this paper. After all, “scientists” believe there’s a moral imperative to spread tick-borne diseases. There’s no daylight between lying to increase trust and intentionally making innocent people sick. My solution to the trust conundrum is to assume anything promoted by government (especially by the FDA, CDC, or NIH) based on Scientism is a lie and to do the exact opposite until proven otherwise. Mistrust is the way! Trust, Government, and Science are three words never to be used in the same sentence unless preceded by the word “DON’T.”

James Wills's avatar

Good stuff. To digress a bit, I noticed you mentioned N.D. Tyson. He spoke at my son's college graduation two years ago. I really didn't know much about him, but it took three minutes to realize that he is as full of shit as a Thanksgiving turkey. How he became an "astrophysicist" is beyond me, but I have my suspicions ....

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Gift of Gab! Pander to the audience!

Rick (from Texas)'s avatar

“to understand what objectivity and rigour really look like”

There’s a self own, for sure. Who was it that commented during the pandemic something to the effect of, “we are building the plane as we’re flying it”?

Christopher Shirk's avatar

These people really do not understand trust.

People don't build or lose trust based on one-offs. They do it based on track records. They also do it based on openness, transparency, and having the honesty to accept accountability for mistakes. The problem academics (refuse to) face is that this is decades in the making.

This is not, "oopsie whoopsie, we did a science wrong."

This is decades of exaggerated claims, predictive failures, and policy advice that should, frankly, have them all serving long prison sentences. And, worse, it is the public finding out that all of the above are built on foundations of sampling bias, extreme methodological flaws, downright tortured data (they call it "adjustments"), and even outright fabricated data. They are finding out that studies are hidden for decades, or even retracted, not on scientific bases but political ones.

I could go on the laundry list of problems that have been building for a very long time.

What these ivory tower academics need to get through their heads is that they are dealing with people. If they keep doing what they're doing, keep playing God, and keep lying to people about it. Well, they need up understand that they are in danger. And, an answer like this to people's concerns? Frankly, this just shows that the sCieNtIfIc CoMMuNiTy is packed with the dimmest bulbs, not the brightest ones.

Steven Work's avatar

Please do not minimize there sins by trying to excuse them as a little slower that .. say, you, that demonic driven appeal to Pride may feel so good to you and many others that their evil is excused like this level of Hell does not punish false-rape accusers because men's lives, hopes, dreams are so debased and valueless to our hyper-Feminized mind-raping Witch directed soul-killing Synagogue of Satan minions that consider us all soulless Gazans the their Religious Books praise the murder or similar. Those Satanists and most women and all powerful authorities reflect similar insane-evils.

When a false rape accuser is given the sentence she hope her victim would have gotten, what? ten to fifteen years as a sex-predator with regular beating and anal rape and torture for her, as Just. That day - if ever comes before Christ's return, will signal a return to sanity, truth, justice, .. rising up through those Levels of Hell the Witches and Satan's 5th collum destroying gollum-tools that most women are, and in rooted in every family.

So, stop masturbating to your demonic pride. And focus on how he and others may repent and bring truth into our world.

Christopher Shirk's avatar

Stupidity and evil are hardly mutually exclusive.