We’ve
been on a bit of a roll in discussing the nature of science, scientism,
The Science, perceptions of reality, and how these things play into
totalitarianism. Below is a repost of a recent piece by Richard Gale and
Dr Gary Null via Global Research,
who do a good job of summarising some key points we have been exporing
and touching on some we’ve missed. To get a feel for their thesis, they
sum up their article with “…the rise of Scientism, as a
coadjutor for a new Inquisition, is a self-deceptive illusion that views
itself as virtuous. Nothing could be farther from the truth because
this is the case for all dogmatic, militant, regressive religious
beliefs in general that entertain hidden motives to persecute its
perceived enemies.”
(I’ll pop in some other key posts below this article, including some recent salient thoughts from John Carter via his postcards from Barsoom)
The Tyranny of Modern Scientism
By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
In 1976, Dr. Halstead Holman, the youngest professor to be named chairman of Stanford University’s Department of Medicine at the age of 35, wrote,
“the
medical establishment is not primarily engaged in the disinterested
pursuit of knowledge into medical practice; rather in significant part
it is engaged in special interest advocacy, pursuing and preserving
social power.”
Holman called for a paradigm
shift in medical laboratory research that would be innovative, support
intellectual freedom, and have the courage to tackle the many challenges
and shortcomings clinical medical practice faced.
The greatest
obstacle Holman confronted within the medical community was what he
called “excellence deception,” which he defined as an “ideological
justification” that rejects criticism and insulates itself from
alternative medical theories and opinions.
Consequently Holman was calling out the hubris that pervaded the higher echelons of the medical establishment.
A decade later, Dr. Robert Petersdorf,
an internationally renowned expert in infectious disease, also worried
over the direction modern medicine was headed. In 1989, Petersdorf
stated, “We can no longer tolerate dishonesty, cheating, fraud and
conflict of interest that have invaded science and medicine.” Looking
back over the past three decades, Holman’s and Petersdorf’s warnings may
have just as well been feathers floating down a cliff. The paradigm
shift never occurred. The medical profession has instead become
increasingly corporatized, dogmatic, and oppressive.
Corruption
is a high-stakes game played by the pharmaceutical complex, without
which we might actually have a functioning healthcare system that
improves public health. Whether it be concealing or fudging prior
knowledge about drugs’ adverse effects to maximize profits, publishing
junk clinical trials, buying off legislators, or engaging in devious
retaliatory efforts to pressure and silence critics, these are only the
costs of doing business that keep drug companies’ and Wall Street’s
coffers overflowing. And this corporate culture of deception has the
full approval of governments’ health ministries and the World Health
Organization. Today our lives are at the mercy of a powerful cartel of
medical bureaucrats in white physician coats intent on protecting a
corporate-based inquisition to stifle dissent.
If anyone doubts
that the Inquisition was only a dark anomaly in western history when the
Church and superstitions reigned, and that our “enlightened”
civilization would never fall back again into such tyranny or repeat the
horrors of witch trials, you have not been paying attention. Monty
Python got it correct, the Inquisition’s “chief weapon is surprise and
fear… fear and surprise… and ruthless efficiency.” During the two years
of the Covid-19 pandemic, fear, not science base on viable consensus,
ruled over the population as a means to police compliance.
For years, Noam Chomsky
has been pointing out the censorship that emerges when propaganda is
united with a control over the media. Today’s media is no longer
distinguishable from the CDC, the FDA and Silicon Valley’s technological
masters of cancel culture and virtue signaling. The architecture of
scientific materialism’s Inquisition has grown steadily. Tuomas Tahko, a
professor of theoretical philosophy at the University of Helsinki,
warns that the rise of a “Scientific Inquisition” is an effort to
“convert us all to naturalism [scientific materialism or Scientism] and
to denounce the false gods of intuition, a priori reasoning and thought
experiments.”
When modern medicine’s greatest threat
becomes “intellectual freedom,” even the freedom to carry out thought
experiments outside the parameters of the dominant scientific tradition
is heretical. The frontline physicians who found strong evidence for
cheap off-patent drugs such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as
effective treatments against SARS-2 infections acted upon their
intuitive suspicions and prescribed these drugs. They were proven
correct; yet, despite having saved countless lives, who would have
otherwise died in intensive care units due to the medical bureaucracy’s
faith in the unfounded and barbaric medical advice from Anthony Fauci
and the CDC, these physicians were vilified and viciously attacked in
the media. “The philosophies of one age,” wrote the father of modern
medicine William Osler, “have become the
absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday have become
the wisdom of tomorrow.” For the hardcore followers of modern
scientism, particularly those in the medical and biological sciences, a
human being is nothing more than an animate machine controlled by a
computer in the skull that will break and ultimately cease to function.
This is not an exaggeration. One of sicentism’s most popular voices, Daniel Dennett at Tufts University, would have us believe:
“What
we think of as our consciousness is actually our brains pulling a
number of tricks to conjure up the world as we experience it. But in
reality, it’s all smoke, mirrors and rapidly firing neurons… But it goes
even further: If our brains are robots, then our neurons are smaller
robots, which in turn are made up of even smaller robots.”
Or even a brilliant genius such as Stephen Hawking
who describes the existence of the human race as “just chemical scum on
a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the
outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies.” Hawking also
believed the brain was simply a computer that could survive outside the
body and replicated in artificial intelligence to reach immortality. He
also believed a computer virus was an actual life form.
Dennett’s
and Hawking’s scientism, as well as many others in our educational
institutions, are in line with the long term goals of the World Economic
Forum for humanity’s dystopian future. In our modern civilization
where human life has lost all existential meaning and therefore it has
forfeited its social moral compass, Klaus Schwab
asks the appropriate questions: “Where do we draw the line between
human and machine? What does it mean to be human?” The fact that we are
even asking these questions indicates how far modern humanity has been
torn away from itself. The potential consequences of this catastrophic
self-inflicted dementia permeating scientism are literally terrifying.
Since
Scientism embraces an extremely limited, and a rather demented view of
reality, which discards much of human experience such as intuition and
creative flights of the imagination as subjective nonsense, there is no
room for “thought experiments” in modern reductionist science. Hence, no
investigation or research is warranted nor should be funded that
explores outside the conventional box. To even consider that
biomolecular health and disease may be understood from certain
principles of quantum theory is anathema; yet, for quantum physicist Prof. Marc Henry
at the University of Strasbourg, understanding the particle-signal
quanta of cellular biology is exactly what medicine needs to start
learning.
In the 15th century, the Dominican friar Tomas de Torquemada
established the Holy Office of the Inquisition and became its grand
master. Today the Grand Inquisitor is a large and flexible consortium of
power brokers and Big Pharm CEOs who exert enormous control over the
CDC, FDA and the World Health Organization. Silicon Valley tech giants
and billionaires such as Bill Gates
bankroll the censorship of dependable evidence that threatens
conventional healthcare and its regime. Our politicians, through the
lobbying efforts of pharmaceutical henchmen, pressure internet firms to
block, censor or blacklist dissident voices who call for public debate
on health issues that directly impact all Americans. An Inquisition
cannot succeed in advancing an invasion of terror without an army of
fanatical fear mongers who can take control of the public’s channels of
communication by stealth and surprise.
The radicalized
scientific materialists through such organizations as the Center for
Inquiry, the Skeptic Society and the Society of Science Based Medicine,
which are aligned with the equally militant New Atheism, carry out
orchestrated campaigns to brainwash the public into Scientism’s dogma
through Wikipedia and social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
professional medical institutions such as the AMA, and the entire
mainstream media are also complicit in this medical tyranny. The mid
nineteenth century father of faith-based Scientism, Thomas Huxley, would
be proud of the reformation he started. “We are on the eve of a new
Reformation,” wrote Aldous Huxley’s grandfather in 1859, “and if I have a
wish to live… it is that I may see the foot of Science on the necks of
her Enemies.” The primary enemy of today’s Scientism is critical
thinking, especially within the medical community itself. Its success is
all around us as we witness this malevolent doctrine being embedded
into national policy
Modern institutionalized Scientism has but one command: play by our rules or be ostracized, persecuted, and ultimately have your reputation blemished.
Even brilliant scientists, respected throughout the international
community, may find themselves on the rack if they deviate from the
norm.
One of the more tragic examples of a brilliant
scientist who was victimized by today’s scientific Inquisition was the
late Nobel laureate Dr. Luc Montagnier.
In 1983, Dr. Montagnier discovered the HIV virus. Later in his life he
entered into a forbidden zone to validate quantum properties that might
explain homeopathy’s efficacy. His research involved the teleportation
of genetic frequencies from his French laboratory that were then
successfully restructured into actual DNA or RNA amino-acid sequences at
a university laboratory in Italy. Yet for this accomplishment, which
some believed should have warranted a second Nobel award, this brilliant
scientist was attacked for being a quack, a charlatan, by the militant
scientific community and Wikipedia. Montagnier was also labeled a
conspiracy theorist for having been one of the first geneticists to
review the SARS-2 coronavirus genetic sequence and to suspect it had a
lab origin.
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Quantum mechanics, pioneered by Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg
and others, should have ushered humanity into the post-materialist
world. Unfortunately modern medicine, neuroscience, evolutionary biology
and other life sciences, which have been hijacked by private corporate
interests, have lagged dismally behind. The most ardent proponents of
Scientism are determined to prevent medicine from evolving beyond its
current reductionist, materialist perspective. For that reason its
followers adamantly oppose funding research that may someday explain why
and how alternative healing modalities have been successful for
countless people around the world. Consequently Scientism is the
strongest opponent of the growing trend in CAM therapies entering
medical school curriculums.
It is reasonable to question
how objective, how fair, how honest are Scientism’s leaders when they
are unwilling to enter open and hopefully productive dialogue with those
that they oppose. It is an odd psychological fact that a mental
obsession can potentially produce its opposite. If an idol or dogma is
revered faithfully enough, it can eventually flip and confirm its
antithesis. We witness this today in the paradox that riddles modern
Scientism; the cockiness of reason morphs into rigid blind faith. Every
fundamentalist faith, whether it be a religious belief (one faith versus
every other faith), economic polarities (capitalism versus Marxism), a
political persuasion (conservative versus liberal) or a dominant
paradigm in any given science, generates a layer of unyielding cynicism
and denial that becomes increasingly intolerant. Cult author and
futurist Robert Anton Wilson called this phenomenon “a psychological
scotoma” — a blind spot of vision in an otherwise unobstructed normal
visual field.
Although skepticism (with a small “s”) can be a
very healthy attitude, it requires a willingness to present questions
that might put our own skepticism into doubt. Yes, evidence deserves to
be evaluated critically; but it also demands that there be enough
allowance for our skeptical biases to be proven wrong. The only escape
from skepticism’s trap is to be skeptical towards one’s own cherished
beliefs. Yet, the rise of Scientism, as a coadjutor for a new
Inquisition, is a self-deceptive illusion that views itself as virtuous.
Nothing could be farther from the truth because this is the case for
all dogmatic, militant, regressive religious beliefs in general that
entertain hidden motives to persecute its perceived enemies. Richard Feynman,
arguably among the most famous quantum physicists and mathematicians of
the late 20th century, wrote, “Science is the belief in the ignorance
of experts.” The good news is that humanity has managed to survive
major catastrophes over the millennia. No doubt humanity will also
survive the tragedy of Scientism and its bellicose child — modern
corporatized medicine.
Richard Gale is
the Executive Producer of the Progressive Radio Network and a former
Senior Research Analyst in the biotechnology and genomic industries.
Dr. Gary Null is
host of the nation’s longest running public radio program on
alternative and nutritional health and a multi-award-winning documentary
film director, including his recent Last Call to Tomorrow
Source: Escaping Msss Psychosis
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