Junk "Sciene"

09 Jan 09

Junk "Science"

All I've heard today from assorted pundits is the hand-wringing question, " How could pollsters have been so wrong about the outcome of the NH Primary yesterday?" Unintentionally, they've struck at the central flaw inmodern, Western Civilization: WE HAVE LOST OUR REVERENCE FOR TRUTH!

Pollsters weren't "wrong." They were corrupt and dishonest! Pollsters, " researchers," and others who try to make a living from advising candidates and others who have a direct interest in the outcome of elections are far more interested in telling a candidate what he wants to hear than they are in telling him what he needs to know. On the other side of the equation, the willfully naive are interested in paying exorbitant fees only for good news. They are not anxious to pay for bad news. "Information" is "information," and, true or false, it is all considered of equal value by adolescent twirps who run today's information industry.

Thus, modern-day "researchers" make sure their "investigation" only leads to "conclusions" whoever is writing checks wants to hear! This " addenda-driven research" is not science at all. It is a fraud, andthat term shamefully applies to much of what is reported by today's media as "news" and "facts."

When you get your suppositions and conclusions mixed in with each other at the beginning, any "conclusion" you reach is rubbish, and should be contemptuously regarded as such! Yet, today, you will not be consulted, nor will you have any hope of grant money, unless you agree, in advance, to "conclude" whatever the party-line dictates! This casual disregard for truth has cast an indelible stain upon much of what today has the audacity to call itself" research" and "science," particularly that regurgitated by the government and the Pentagon.

Once again, as our Civilization declines, we find ourselves wallowing in a kind of Eastern Mysticism, where only political agendas count and truth holds no special place but is routinely mixed together with lies and error.

Those of us who notice this trend are not the first. Some dire warnings from the past:

"Humanity strives to find truth. It relaxes when it has found an error that is livable"

Albert Camus

"A belief is not true merely because it is useful"

Henri Amiel

"A thing is not 'proved' simply because no one has ever questioned it"

Dennis Diderot

"The fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be ridiculous than sound."

Bertrand Russell

/John