False beliefs among scientists, politicians and opinion-makers is having detrimental effects on public health and education.
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry into the 2020-2021 coronavirus pandemic highlighted a culture of secrecy in the UK Cabinet Office at the beginning of the pandemic. The evidence to the Inquiry demonstrated false beliefs among those at the highest level of Government, leading to confused evidence being presented to the UK Cabinet at a critical stage in the management of the pandemic. There was “complete chaos”.
International institutions
It is possible that the 2020-2021 coronavirus pandemic was the last straw for public trust in major institutions. Former surveys used to show that public trust in journalists was very low but for doctors was very high and for politicians somewhere in between. However, with the pandemic, it has now reached the stage that even medicine is being discredited in the public mind. Which doctor can we trust? The obsequious behaviour of the WHO towards China early in a global pandemic, the vested interests of officials involved in the vaccine production, the mis-information by official bodies and the cancelling of opposing voices will make the 2020-2021 coronavirus pandemic a turning point in global history. Analysis of behaviour BP (before-pandemic) and PP (post-pandemic) will be worth considering. The refusal to repurpose medicines and to boost immunity with known agents was a notable feature of over-all control of the pandemic. This does not augur well for the bold power-grab by the WHO for global control of future pandemics at the “say-so” of its politically-appointed Director General.
The growing over-reach of international organisations needs to be challenged. They are useful for consultation and collaboration but they are dangerous for political control of nation states. Citizens do not vote for them and cannot remove their personnel. This is not democratic and it is evident that nation-states are losing democratic principles.
The pandemic has highlighted the incompetence of politicians, scientific bodies, and medics. Medical institutions, big pharma, and their kinsfolk are too big to manage and their incompetent managers are in practice unaccountable.
Britain
People wonder why Britain is losing its way in the management of public affairs, with uncontrolled immigration, teenage murders, and thieving activity to such an extent that the public have lost confidence in law and order. Public commentators regularly speak of two-tier policing, two-tier justice, etc. Our international reputation has led other countries to warn tourists about the risk of mobile phones being stolen while visiting London and the police will not act upon it nor respond to shop-lifting,
People are discussing how loss of trust in authority has arisen from the discovery by the general public of the prevalence of vested interests in so many areas of life. There is now a danger of “science becoming the slave of vested interests”.
The conscientiousness formerly taught by the Judaeo-Christian ethic through UK primary schools was abandoned decades ago, and Britain is now reaping what has been sown.
There is hardly an area of UK public life which is not affected by endemic corruption – church, politics, government, education, business, health care, etc. What has gone wrong at the heart needs to be put right at the heart. The Gospel of Jesus Christ goes to the heart and begins at the heart. It is time to re-introduce it in our schools, where the national rot began a few decades ago. Our children have been short-changed and the nation is suffering.
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The Replication Crisis and scientific credibility.
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Science flies you to the moon, while religion flies you into buildings.
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I do not fly into buildings. Science should teach clear thinking, speaking and writing.
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There are plenty of science communicators out there that can help you understand what the current state of science actually looks like, such as Dave Farina, Hank Green, Simon Clark, etc.
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Thanks.
It is because I know the current state of science that I wrote this blogpost. Dave Farina has been discredited by Professor James Tour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tour
Readers of this post might want to examine the links provided in support of what I have written.
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You should’ve checked out Farina’s playlist of 20+ videos on Mr. Tour at his YT channel before you mentioned him since it’s not a good look for you to actually consider him to be an authority on any kind of matter.
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I have “checked out” many hours of Dave Farina’s videos and his exchanges with Professor James Tour.
You say that James Tour is not “an authority on any kind of matter”! Really? “it’s not a good look for you” to say so. I invite the readers of this exchange to check out the Wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tour to triple professor James Tour.
The topic of this blogpost is false science and 1. as your advice is to me, 2. you are going off topic, and 3. you are misleading your readers, I am tempted to ignore anything more you have to say.
However, in the meantime, it serves a useful purpose by demonstrating to a general audience the poor state of public debate, to which I will be able to link from other posts and social media.
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I apologize for the repition, I thought my first comment didn’t get posted. Anyhow, James Tour is a Chemist, not an Evolutionary Biologist, meaning that he has absolutely no authority on the topic of evolution. Dave Farina has already shredded him into piece at his YT channel, so as I already said you should check him out.
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So your readers can now see that “it’s not a good look for you” to say that James Tour is not “an authority on any kind of matter”. As I have already checked out Dave Farina, you continue to be repetitious and unless you can make a meaningful contribution to the subject of this blogpost I will not let any more of your misleading comments appear here. Professor Tour does not claim to be an evolutionary biologist – he is successfully showing that the Origin of Life chemists have made no progress in their field in 50 years of study, research and experimentation. Pre-biotic chemistry is not biology, far less evolutionary biology.
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Dave Farina is a science communicator and he is therefore not denying Abiogenesis like James Tour does.
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I am now convinced that you are using this blogpost to promote Dave Farina. Your continued nagging makes me now remove your link to Dave Farina in your previous post.
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Dave got a playlist on Tour at his YT channel. You should check it out.
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You are becoming rather repetitious, like a broken record.
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