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The Problem With The ‘Science’ is That It’s Not About Science

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From Jonathan Wells at Stream.org

March [for Science] organizers say “our diversity is our greatest strength.” They say “a wealth of opinions, perspectives, and ideas is critical for the scientific process.” But they don’t really mean it. Their passion for diversity extends to race, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation, but not to opinions, perspectives, and ideas.

And that “diversity” only extends to race, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation when those people ape the correct (see: approved) opinions, perspectives, and ideas. Failing to toe the proper line will get you flogged by the media and political class because it is only “diversity” when it conforms to the proper political dogma.

This brings me to Professor Clarke A. Miller who says a lot of things in this very long and worthwhile piece.

What appears to be a war on science by the current Congress and president is, in fact, no such thing. Fundamentally, it is a war on the same government. To be more specific, it is a war on a form of government with which science has become deeply aligned and allied over the past century. To the disparate wings of the conservative movement that believe that US strength lies in its economic freedoms, its individual liberties, and its business enterprises, one truth binds them all: the federal government has become far too powerful.

Professor Miller goes on to say a good deal more about conservatives and the historical “war on science,” always returning to the problem of the too powerful government, but he’s still missed the boat.

While he does an excellent job of outlining moments where leaps in science expanded government to the dismay of ‘conservatives,’ he is blinded (perhaps because he is a warmist) to the real problem conservatives like myself have with AGW “science.”

The left-wing war on science narrative whatever battle you pick (stem cells is another example), is driven entirely by progressive ideology; using their science as a tool to re-engineer human behavior and institutions in support of the utopian planned society.

In the case of Climate politics, the larger program means to create a multi-generational consciousness that believes that science–or the politicians (or the properly aligned industrial oligarchs who benefit from) backing it–should silence dissent in the name of consensus and still be taken seriously as something other than institutionalized tyranny. Understanding climate to save humanity by saving the planet was never the goal. The objective is to take control of energy and transportation, to place limits on every aspect of modern life until it conforms to the whims of progressive central planners.

Dissent, free speech of any kind, is the enemy of tyranny so science that does not or will not advance this agenda is labeled anti-science, it’s adherents, deniers. Not because it isn’t science or scientific but because it fails to support the Progressive’s program; in exactly the same way that diversity of race, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation only have value when these advance that same progressive agenda.

There is no protection from the left for anyone with the wrong opinion and the politics behind the March for Science, Climate politics, all progressive politics, are the same politics behind a diversity and inclusiveness based on ideological intolerance and exclusion.

Conservatives aren’t creating speech codes, and they are not at war with science. They are at war with an ideology that will deploy government force to protect that monopoly by silencing dissent. A politics that claims science as a means to validate progressive opinions to the exclusion of all others.

That is the enemy of liberty and the Constitutional Republic and it makes no difference to Conservatives whether they hide behind race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, a desk, a lectern, a pulpit, or a lab coat. 

The war is not on science or government; the war is on the Progressive’s use of both to advance tyranny.

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