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Are there any Credible Scientific Journals Remaining?
re: Jay Bhattycharya
Has much of science really become a branch of politics?
Jay Bhattycharya MD, PhD of Stanford...
2023-03-21
I'm hard pressed to think of a better way to destroy the trust of (about half or more) of the public in our scientific institutions than to have these institutions openly display their political biases.
WIND: “Openly”? One half has lost trust, the other remains unaware of the structural defects in the brains of scientists so undermined in algorithmic integrity that they feel free to mix politics with science—that’s 100% destruction.
Put simply, if an intellect lacks the integrity and objectivity to consider viewpoints in one field, it cannot and will not remain objective in other fields. Because it is a structural defect in the thinking process, not a one-off issue.
Has Nature perhaps provided a public service by disabusing us of an illusion, by abusing the prestige of science to comment on non-science? Pulling the curtain aside just enough to show the sausage being made?
Better that “experts as the science”, in their arrogant hubris, show their dirty laundry so that in the long term the scientific method retains credibility.
The reason that the scientific method exists, and why it takes decades or longer to produce reliable findings, is that “science” and scientists are highly unreliable in the short term. Short term scientific truth is not a thing.
Only a long term scientific method eventually filters out the false and gets better bearings on the truth. It’s why a century later, scientists are still validating Einstein’s hypotheses, in a field that is as far from politics as most. That drawn-out process is the only reason science has any authority at all. Though simple physical science over history could be much more rapid eg “X can do Y” and is provable by using it to engineer a useful outcome. Engineering is the ultimate proof.
Using the mantle of scientific objectivity to endorse a political candidate while being hoaxed and unaware of it shows a level of self-unawareness, a structural lack of judgment and objectivity that will contaminate every judgment on every topic.
When dozens of hoaxes fool “objective” scientists, when the vast majority of scientists and doctors got everything wrong about COVID, when science is mostly about funding eg follow the money, when science in most every field is influenced or dominated by politics, when some of the most vicious social doctrines are infiltrating science, you can be sure that scientists are among the most rationalization-prone gullible suckers on the planet.
