The Left Is Using Science ‘Consensus’
To Shut Down Free Speech in America
Taki´s Magazine,
by
Stephen Moore
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
10/20/2022 10:50:55 AM
It was about eight to 10 years ago that the Left made a unilateral decision to shut down all opposition and any skepticism about climate change by pronouncing that the debate was over.
The “scientific consensus” had been reached, as if sent down on tablets from God, that mankind was causing the rapid warming of the planet. Period. End of argument. Doubters will be denounced as science deniers and stripped of their science credentials and muzzled by the speech police.
This idea of a scientific consensus is, of course, the diametric opposite of what scientific inquiry is all about. It is completely ahistorical. History’s greatest minds and inventors
Reply 1 - Posted by:
seamusm 10/20/2022 10:59:29 AM (No. 1309727)
The power of the purse string. By controlling the sources of funding for academic research - NIH, CDC, etc., these liberal elitists 'forced' every academic into toeing the line if they wanted to stay employed and obtain promotions. They got their consensus alright - by bribery and starving dissension into Junior College jobs.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Avanti1 10/20/2022 11:11:49 AM (No. 1309744)
Moore is spot on. The scientific method is based on empirical evidence, not on the vote count of scientists or the edict of a scientific czar. Empirical evidence speaks for itself; the science is never settled.
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Shades of Galileo.
Or, in 1850, a Jewish obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis stepped up to the podium of the Vienna Medical Society’s to tell doctors they needed to wash their hands before surgery in a chlorinated lime solution before surgery. This was advice against the scientific consensus and rejected by the various powers-that-be. Every insult was thrown at his "conspiracy theory" and anyone who dared to even consider it was driven from polite society.
The other doctors and intelgensia hounded him so bad Semmelweis lost his clinical appointment at the Vienna General Hospital and fled. He was captured under spurious charged and died under curious circumstances, having been declared insane and institutionalized.
The elite clowns do what they do to protect their standing. They always have.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 10/20/2022 11:14:33 AM (No. 1309748)
When science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore; it’s religion.
Copernicus denied the scientific consensus. He was also right.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 10/20/2022 11:14:53 AM (No. 1309750)
Every right thinking academic and scientist knows that all science is tentative... there is no such thing as "settled science." This is an outrage against science in every field and every way. What it does tell me is that they are insecure enough with their conclusions to feel the need to make this pronouncement. They know in their heart of hearts this isn't science, it's politics.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/20/2022 11:27:52 AM (No. 1309763)
Actually, the left is using corporate America to shut down free speech. The method is copied from the Nazi's and the Chinese Communists.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mean Gene 10/20/2022 11:30:32 AM (No. 1309764)
In 2003, Michael Crichton delivered a lecture at Caltech titled "Aliens Cause Global Warming". This lecture's arguments often come up in critiques of climate science.
Crichton's used the term consensus as a limited and largely incorrect view of the scientific process.
Now consensus is being used to destroy freedom of expression.
His arguments in Aliens Cause Global Warming ring true applied to these speech police, too.
Read it and appreciate Dr Crichton all over again.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/20/2022 11:54:40 AM (No. 1309797)
Except that they don't have the foggiest idea of what actual science is.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/20/2022 12:01:31 PM (No. 1309802)
"The Left Is Using Science ‘Consensus’ To Shut Down Free Speech in America" and the new KGB, the FBI
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kono 10/20/2022 12:54:50 PM (No. 1309863)
Science operates on theory and proof or refutation, not on majority or consensus (even real consensus, unlike the false "consensus" that believe in anthropogenic climate change. Science is not sustainable without a vibrant freedom of opinion in a veritable mosh pit of discussion, debate, and deliberation. It's not uncommon for something that's been accepted truth for centuries to suddenly be cast back into mystery by some discovery that shows it to have been mistaken.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/20/2022 1:09:37 PM (No. 1309870)
Consensus works great if everyone thinks the same...Commie Democraps DO THAT very well.
In reality any time a group of unqualified people form a joint opinion it's flawed and will Always Fail...and there we have the leftist Morons in a nutshell...emphasis on the NUT part.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 10/20/2022 1:15:23 PM (No. 1309877)
The left's favorite tools in promoting their agenda are indoctrination, misinformation, misdirection, and plain, old-fashioned gaslighting.
With these tools, they build a consensus (IOW, group think), and then claim all dissension is not just wrong, but evil.
I call BuII Shlt.
For the record:
1. AGW is fake.
2. Biden stole his election in Nov-2020, and has sold his soul to Russians and Chinese.
3. Illegal immigration is still illegal.
4. Electric cars are an environmental and commercial disaster.
5. There are only 2 genders: the rest need counseling.
6. There is no institutional racism in USA.
7. The current inflationary stagcession is entirely the fault of democrat failed policies.
There, I said it, now I feel better.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 10/20/2022 3:24:12 PM (No. 1309957)
They get funding... money is big in academia... I think my colleagues know this is a sham.
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