Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Liberals sure love #Science, but like all conservatives I just hate #Science so very, very much. Did you know that 97% of #Science-people, who clearly love #Science, agree that the global warming climate crisis means we have to immediately give the liberal elite a bunch of our money and freedom because of #Science? Well, we do – and as of a couple of months ago, noted #Scientist AOC informed us that we have exactly 12 years to do it. Okay, 11 years, ten months. Tick tock!
You know it’s true #Science because of the specificity of her 12 years figure. Not 11 years. Not 13 years. Twelve years. Now you’re talking some #Science! What can’t #Science do?
Well, it apparently can’t explain what a fetus is. #Science, according to those who love #Science, does not teach us that the human baby inside the human mother that will indisputably be a human being someday is a human being from day one. It’s unclear what #Science says it is. Take your pick: a miscellaneous clump of cells, a parasite, a cancer analog. But #Science does teach us that whatever it is, #Science won’t let it interfere with the liberal elite’s pro-abortion narrative that destroying it is a morally inconsequential act.
See, the truly useful thing about #Science is its flexibility. It’s not going to let its conclusions be clouded by inconvenient facts, observations or evidence.
#Science is reliable.
Reliably liberal.
The simpleminded among you might demand some sort of false consistency where #Science presents all the evidence, no matter what effect it has vis a vis the liberal narrative. But consistency is a bourgeois construct that fails to recognize that the primary purpose of any ideology, institution or method, like #Science, is to support the liberal elite’s agenda. That’s why #Science can overlook irritating facts and principles established by science that make it harder to achieve the liberal elite’s goals.
Hot weather? Proof positive of climate change.
Cold weather? Also proof positive of climate change.
#Science is very, very flexible.
For instance, the trans frenzy involves spotlighting the struggle of a statistically insignificant number of unusual individuals in order to disrupt the traditional social order by freaking out the squares. You are one of the squares, if you did not know that already. By creating a social movement that erases the difference between men and women, and which forces people to become complicit in the lie that men can morph into women and vice versa, the liberal elite seeks to do what it always does. It seeks to increase its power by diminishing your autonomy. Today, you can’t speak the truth about gender. Tomorrow it will be some other truth that you are forbidden to utter.
Non-hashtag science creates an obstacle though, because men have men chromosomes and women have women chromosomes and no matter how necessary it is to the struggle that people’s sex be alterable upon a whim, that scientific fact is not going to change. But that’s where #Science comes in. #Science not only provides useful support to leftist arguments – as with the climate change scam – but it also helpfully steps out of controversies where its input might undercut the approved conclusions.
This is why you don’t see a lot of #Science folk standing up and saying, “All the surgery and hormones in the world are not going to make a woman a man.” They either say nothing, or construct a #Scientific rational out of babble and deceit about how “gender is a fluid spectrum of non-binaryhood for some reason” and stamp the #Science name on it.
Where science is objective, #Science is subjective. But #Science still demands the credibility and deference that goes with being objective, and if you won’t submit and give it that respect – if you won’t ignore your lying eyes and nod along with the lie that #Science is neutral and agenda-free – then you are a knuckle-dragging Jesus person who hates science.
Yeah, Christians hate #Science. I was just at church, and the pastor was totally explaining to the congregation that includes a huge number of doctors, computer experts and aerospace engineers, how awful fancy book learning is. We hate #Science so much!
Science, not so much.
Of course, the big #Science thing lately has been the global warming grift. That “97% of #Scientists” figure the cultists toss around is absolute genius. What’s it mean, anyway? Do 97% of #Scientists agree that the climate is changing? Actually, everyone agrees with that – that the Earth’s climate changes over time is why we had an ice age. Well, we had an ice age a long time ago. We did not have one after the #Science people promised an ice age in the 1970s. But shhhh! We’re not supposed to mention that.
Want to know what the proposed solution for the ’70s ice age that never arrived was? Give the liberal elite more money and power. Overpopulation was another big crisis in the ’70s too. It never arrived either. The solution to that was to give the liberal elite more money and power. And when they were warning us about acid rain destroying us in the ’80s? The solution to that crisis was also to give the liberal elite more money and power. The ozone hole? Yep, more of our money and power to the liberal elite. Back in the 1990s, the Al Gores of the world were warning us that we had just 10 years left to save the Earth unless … wait for it … we gave the liberal elite more money and power.
Sense some themes?
Each of these crises all had two things in common. Thing One was that none of these doomsdays ever produced the promised doom. Thing Two was that each was a demand to give the liberal elite more money and power.
#Science is never humble. You would think with a track record of self-serving failure like that, #Scientists would be less certain about their doomsday du jour prognostications. But nope. #Science means never having to say you’re sorry nor, apparently, having to explain why, after being wrong again and again and again about climate catastrophes, we should believe that they’re right this time.
Remember, #Science owes you no explanations for its failures nor evidence supporting its assertions. Instead, you owe it unquestioned obedience and deference because, after all, it’s #Science.
So, back to the 97% scam. What do 97% of all #Scientists believe? We never hear that. Do they believe human activity has some effect, even a tiny one, on the climate? That’s a far cry from 97% believing in the entire climate crisis narrative – that unless we act right now to transfer much, much more money and much, much more freedom to the liberal elite, we’re all going to…what?
The “what” never ends up getting explained. It gets a couple degrees hotter in a century? Okay, but some land becomes desert, doesn’t other presently frigid land warm up? The seas are going to rise a few inches? Okay, so? Move. Storms are going to happen? Aren’t we in a notably light hurricane era?
Hey, do 97% of #Scientists agree on what the proper temperature is? What is it? And how did they decide that that was the proper temperature?
Of course, asking such questions is heresy, in that #Science has more in common with a primitive nature-spirit religion than with actual science. Science, of course, as opposed to #Science, actually works with facts and evidence to establish the truth, rather than establishing the narrative and cherry-picking support for it.
Yeah, we hate #Science all right. And this infuriates the liberal elite, so much so that they would totally burn us at the stake for our blasphemy if it could ever come up with enough carbon off-set credits.
I may hate #Science, but I love action-packed yet super-snarky novels about the United States’ split into red and blue countries, such as my books People’s Republic, Indian Country and Wildfire. And no, when you get them electronically as e-books (as opposed to in paperback) that has nothing to do with science. It’s magic. Conservative magic.
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In the good ol’ days science was an objective tool for determining the true nature of the physical world. Nowdays, science is often a subjective tool that is shunted and twisted to support a predetermined notion. In that way science has lost its status and its role in the lives of humanity. And for that science must be hated. Except when you’re man-splaining how a combustion engine works. Or when you’re pondering the validity of string theory. Which is, after all, still only a theory. Good science can be as inebriating as good scotch. In the end, I guess science is like a sword. Is it good or is it evil? It is neither. It is only serving the purposes of the man wielding it.
Well, the planet is probably overpopulated, but the ones doing the overpopulating aren’t educated enough (or possibly capable of) to understand SCIENCE, the real thing, that takes all the data and modifies the theories instead of taking only the data that supports the theory du jour.
Aside from that, I agree (mostly) with the rest.
Blinding me with #Science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIMvSp01C8
(Who knew this missive had a soundtrack?)
I love great sarcasm with or without the pound sign Mr Schlichter.
Looks like Bernie has cameos in the viddy.
Yesterday on Minnesota Public Radio our local meteorologist, who hosts a little program they call – I shit you not – ClimateCast – was interviewing some non-scientist young women – girls, actually – who are so traumatized by the very idea of impending climate change that they’ve become completely neurotic. The remedy that was proposed was that anyone similarly anxious about the weather should join a climate change group so that they can agitate for higher taxes and government regulation. One of the girls said that she had majored in Climate Change (that’s like majoring in rain or onions or something) and that it was a promising career. So the solution to a bunch of neurotics being frozen with fear over the weather is to join a group of people with a similar neurosis. I just screamed at the radio “You people are fucking crazy!”
Meanwhile we’ve had highs in the 40’s in late May.
Huh. I went to a science-y school and none of the scientists I knew did anything like what Schlichter claims. He’s mostly ranting about people who want to use “science” (I guess what he calls #Science) for their own political ends.
Science, anyway, isn’t a “thing” that can tell anyone how to behave or react to whatever findings. Science is a methodology, with accepted protocols, and is usually extremely Conservative in the true sense of that word. Findings do need to be replicable, etc. Scientists generally do not just go off half-cocked.
Scientists like precise language. There are real definitions for zygote, embryo, and fetus. No scientist would ever say “gender is a fluid spectrum of non-binaryhood for some reason”. Real scientists are unlikely to weigh in on the gender-mania because they see that there is no point in it.. that people are developing these ideas based on emotions rather than facts…
• The ozone layer was a real issue. People decided to cut down on CFCs, and it helped a great deal.
• Overpopulation is a real issue. The main reason people are doing more poorly than previous generations is because there is more pollution, fewer natural resources and less energy per capita. Read “The Limits to Growth”.
• Global warming (overall warming, not ‘weather’) is a real issue. The fact that banksters and politicos want to cynically make a buck off of it and enact power grabs doesn’t mean it’s not real. His “no big deal, just move” all the nukes and navy bases and ports is pretty amusing.
This “wrong again and again” thing is wearing thin. People like Schlichter said the same thing about Y2K, but -like with the ozone deal- there were actual scientists and technicians working in the background to fix things. Though I’m sure they were well-paid, as far as the public is concerned this was a thankless task.
I’ve been studying doom quite a bit these last few years, and I’ve not come across one scientist in this realm who says any kind of carbon-tax is going to do a damn thing, in fact, they scoff at it… so Schlichter is just fantasizing here by setting up the straw man, #Science. I don’t see how that helps his argument in any way; he’s only contributing to the confusion.
Schlichter sounds hysterical.. just like the liberals he despises, he’s getting caught up in emotion. Instead of freaking out about #Science.. how about reading up on real science and becoming better-informed? How about offering alternatives if you don’t like the current political trajectory, instead of just screaming like a harpy? How about poking holes in their narratives using facts.. for example the fact that electric cars emit more CO2 than their diesel forbears? That shuts ’em down cold.. I’ve done it.
http://www.brusselstimes.com/business/technology/15050/electric-vehicles-emit-more-co2-than-diesel-ones,-german-study-shows?fbclid=IwAR1yqV2BRyDOmw7YdabYJ2vLqMQWlcnKVh-Z1Wk5yIvyVf6TPn4MbdotcNY
How about pointing out that the word “gender” has the same root as “generate”, “engender”, and “generation” so to hijack that meaning and apply it to sterile beings makes no sense? Again, precision is your friend.
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The fact that “a huge number of doctors, computer experts and aerospace engineers” believe in zombies and omnipotent extra-terrestrials is actually the most interesting (and frightening) part of this piece.
“. . . primary purpose o any ideology, institution or method, like #Science, is to support the ELITE’s agenda.” Near as I can tell, this statement applies to ALL elitist pricks, liberals and conservatives alike. Other than that, excellent and humorous article!