I have been saying this for years. Science has become the new religion to the masses. It started with manmade global warming. Before that only nerds like me talked about science. Then the global warming propaganda from MSM / big tech told everyone they should panic and seek advice from the nearest mainstream scientist.
That's what they did, and unsurprisingly the bought-and-paid-for scientists told them they should panic harder - and give their money to the government so it could 'fix the weather.'
These people view scientists the way a 14th-century peasant would see a priest. They blindly place 100% of their trust in that authority. They cannot understand the data themselves but they are willing to go to war over what they are told.
This is not something new. Science replaced religion as the ultimate source of truth in the Enlightenment.
In actual fact, science does a good job of helping us to understand objective physical reality. However, much of what is called "science" today is not really science.
In other words, people don't distrust science so much as they distrust pseudo science.
In claiming for itself the role of ultimate arbiter of truth, science has undermined its own authority because a large percentage of the scientists no longer have the moral integrity, a byproduct of religion, to correctly practice science.
While Galileo is often held up as an example of religion getting in the way of science, in reality it is an example of authoritarianism usurping truth - and the multitude of hypocrisies surrounding the C19 response bears this out.
I hope you are not comparing science to the Enlightenment, or that the Enlightenment was science.
The Enlightenment was a philosophy that basically boiled down to this: No more Divine Right, as men can reason on their own without the Church and the State getting involved.
I have been saying this for years. Science has become the new religion to the masses. It started with manmade global warming. Before that only nerds like me talked about science. Then the global warming propaganda from MSM / big tech told everyone they should panic and seek advice from the nearest mainstream scientist.
That's what they did, and unsurprisingly the bought-and-paid-for scientists told them they should panic harder - and give their money to the government so it could 'fix the weather.'
These people view scientists the way a 14th-century peasant would see a priest. They blindly place 100% of their trust in that authority. They cannot understand the data themselves but they are willing to go to war over what they are told.
This is not something new. Science replaced religion as the ultimate source of truth in the Enlightenment.
In actual fact, science does a good job of helping us to understand objective physical reality. However, much of what is called "science" today is not really science.
In other words, people don't distrust science so much as they distrust pseudo science.
In claiming for itself the role of ultimate arbiter of truth, science has undermined its own authority because a large percentage of the scientists no longer have the moral integrity, a byproduct of religion, to correctly practice science.
While Galileo is often held up as an example of religion getting in the way of science, in reality it is an example of authoritarianism usurping truth - and the multitude of hypocrisies surrounding the C19 response bears this out.
I hope you are not comparing science to the Enlightenment, or that the Enlightenment was science.
The Enlightenment was a philosophy that basically boiled down to this: No more Divine Right, as men can reason on their own without the Church and the State getting involved.