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The other day someone tried to credential me with, “respect the science,” and I thought, Dude! I just so happen to run a science blog, donja know.
Just kidding! Actually I thought, sheesh that’s so six months ago! For a culture warrior, you’re a bit slow on the uptake. Propaganda has a pull date, get with the program.
A few days later I got kind of cornered by a small mob. I’m not going to state any numbers, but we’ll just go with, they were fierce and many, and all demanding to know if I’d had my vaccine yet. I tried to just say “no” and walk away, but then they insisted on being assured I was going to comply real soon. I just looked around helplessly because hand to hand combat is not really my thing. Finally this sweet man walked in at just the right moment and rescued me by saying, I don’t think we’re even giving shots to the 20 year olds yet, are we?? Woot! Now that’s the right answer.
Oh heck no, I am not going to get vaccinated, but good answer.
I’ve now lived long enough that I have actually experienced several sciency mishaps. Spraying kids down with DDT is one of them. Recalled dangerous vaccines is another. Thalidomide babies is another.
I’m probably twice as bothered by arguments that try to present “science” itself as a moral marker for all that is good and golden, then I am by the subject matter itself! Like, something is not “good” because it is “science.” Nazis liked science. Germ warfare is science. If you actually do believe that slapping “science” on something makes it moral and good, that means I live in a world populated by people too stupid to tie their own shoelaces in the morning and that really offends me.
The very nature of science demands it be questioned. Especially medical science. Ten times as much when it comes to medical science. For goodness sakes, in very recent history we performed lobotomies to cure rebellion and mental illness. We believed in hysterectomies to cure female hysteria. We engaged in forced sterilizations and eugenics, allegedly to prevent crime.
It wasn’t until 1994 that we discovered the horrors of the Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies in which more than 700 people were used in radiation experiments. That has since been renamed the more user friendly, “Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.”
Science can be bloody immoral, downright evil, and all wrongheaded. This has been universally true whenever it has gotten into the business of social engineering. It has never ended well, never. History, even very recent history, is full of so many well documented cases, many that were even investigated by congress and eventually deemed a, horrific humanitarian tragedy.
One would have to be a total lemming to “respect the science,” no offense intended to the little arctic rodents, it’s just like, sheesh people..…
See, there's this thing called biology... 
“The very nature of science demands it be questioned. Especially medical science. ” This.
I’m so sick of science reaching ‘consensus’. It needs to be debated rigorously. The ‘settled science’ opinion is often dovetailed with the dissenters being called ‘deniers’. I wonder how many keyboard warriors realize that we’ve been in the most stable climatic trend for nearly 12,000 years? That the planet had been warming until the Younger Dryas episode. And, if we must follow the science, then get on board with gender being binary. God, someone get me an aspirin.
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Exactly! I need an aspirin, too. Ha, but speaking of aspirin, we have no idea how many people in 1918 may have died of aspirin toxicity rather then the Spanish flu. Congress and big aspirin got together at that precise moment in time and mega doses of aspirin suddenly became the cure.
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Well, if they counted deaths then as they do today with covid, those still WERE flu deaths. So sad.
Great article. The sad thing is that the “believe in science” mantra is used against Christians, in part because we believe in a resurrected Christ, which, you know, isn’t scientifically possible, and because we believe in faith, which they say has NO BASIS in science. It’s a great weapon, one that the Hawaii senator trotted out to use against Justice Barret in her confirmation hearing. She said something about a gender issue and used the word “choice.” The senator hit the room: “Don’t you believe in science?!!!” That’s the typical way of undermining conservative positions. We only believe what we believe what we believe because we don’t believe in science, they think. Also sad.
Becky
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At this point, something a little stronger than aspirin is required!
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Call me a sacrifice 😖
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Nah, I think we call people guinea pigs not sacrifices, and in truth that is how we have all been used for decades, some more tragically than others.
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So, “fun fact,” in this toxicology research lab I knew about once, at the end of the trials the lab techs had to “sacrifice” – i.e., kill – the experimental animals to analyze the final results of whatever toxic substance they had been studying.
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LOL! Oh dear, you’ve just slain my reassuring words. So a big hug to anybody who has ever been used as a lab rat. I know some. Jesus loves you.
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My new response to any stranger who asks me “Have you been vaccinated yet? is this: “I can proudly say that all my vaccinations are up-to-date!” Which is true. All the vaccinations I was required to receive as a kid have been received and everything is up-to-date.
They’ll have to be pretty quick to realize what I didn’t say!
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Ah ha, I see what you did there.
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Science is dangerous in the hands of unsanctified minds is all too true. ‘Science,’ when used properly, is as you know, a very good thing.
Bill Nye the science clown says there is no God…… what a moron to put God in a test tube.
Harris says the word of God is fraudulent and can’t be trusted….. another moron whose profession is to tickle ears while he is deaf/
Shall i name them ALL? Time will fail and there’s not enough paper.
But the powers that be are perpetuating a criminal enterprise by intentionally turning citizens into pit bulls against their neighbor for wait fir it; having legitimate opposing views re. their good ‘science.’
Here’s a clever tip: anytime a person wants to ‘question you with their concern….’ just say: ‘ I’m pretty sure health info is revered in HIPPA laws and the privacy act; ‘ That ends discussion fast, because people don’t even know Mr. HIPPA. lol
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Hmm, that one is worth a try, Colorstorm! “Medical records are confidential, sorry.”
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Yep. ‘Maybe I have, maybe I haven’t.’ Conversation should immediately end- 😉
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Maybe my new answer to strangers who ask the question will be…..”what’s your social security number?”
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Well either way Jim- we can stop the nonsense by being clever.
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Reblogged this on Talmidimblogging.
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Thank you, Vincent. 🙂
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My pleasure 🙏🏻😊
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I keep stumbling into more and more “scientific evidence” that reaffirms my decision NOT to get the vaccine, and I struggle when I want to forward it to friends and family. I mean, I love these people and want them to be safe. But some of them are the same people that will be the first to point fingers and IRL unfriend me if they know I’m not getting the Vaccine. I’ve decided that if the subject comes up, I will explain my reasoning. But for the most part I have a “get out of jail free” defense – I have epilepsy, and there are no definitive studies done on epileptics. Thanks, but no thanks. Oh, and regarding old fashioned scientific atrocities, I’m epileptic which according to the Bible means I’m demon possessed. Bahaha! BTW, I think the word is spreading among people who don’t want to get vaccinated. Our “village” is growing!
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Since ‘common sense’ has also been nullified by mainstream cancel culture, far too many shoelaces remain untied. Typical of all ‘loose ends’, multitudes are perpetually tripping over them. Meanwhile, their glaring arrogance insists we ‘follow the science’ which they completely ignore and mask the related facts for political gain. Ironically, they no longer revere the lessons the history of political science reveals. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! Mt.23:24.
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Great points, experts in science are often pressured to go with the majority opinion, regardless of whether there are problems with it. That is how we have so many scientists endorsing evolution, even though it is scientifically impossible.
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“If you actually do believe that slapping “science” on something makes it moral and good, that means I live in a world populated by people too stupid to tie their own shoelaces in the morning and that really offends me.”
LOL! That’s pretty much it, IB.
Good stuff, and I loved your pictures, too. As you said, science is meant to be questioned as a matter of methodology. “Settled science” is an oxymoron (emphasis on “moron.”)
“Too stupid” pretty much describes what we’ve been subjected to. And the medical industry is the worst at it! They only diagnose and prescribe drugs.The “powers that be” don’t care one whit about educating people to develop a healthy immunity to COVID, just take the vaccine, stay home, and wear a mask forever! It’s become a cult religion more than science. Never mind all the other seriously harmful effects these dumb lockdowns have created. If we actually looked at the research we would immediately open up all the states.
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Amen, Amen, Amen! I also am NOT getting the vaccine! And your blog is brilliant as always. Thank you.
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Thanks, Stephanie! Much appreciated. 🙂
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