trust science

… not politicians.

One can have great faith in scientific methodology when it comes to finding answers to the most fundamental questions related to what makes nature tick here on Earth and everywhere else, and zero faith in what scientific programs and data are being turned into by politicians and their lackeys inside and outside the various fields of science.

Of course, it does not matter what anybody anywhere put his, her or their trust in, or not, when the science – and all else for that matter – is settled on any subject that politicians and others in power have made it their mission to take total control over. Any fool on Earth knows that to be a self-evident fact.

What the not so easily fooled individuals and groups know, is of course heresy in a world of ~~fools~~ (uh) true believers. Nothing new there, and not much chance that humanity will grow up and out of such primitive collective mindsets anytime soon.

To repeat that “history repeats itself” over and over again, does not make up for the fact that humanity indeed has not progressed significantly in how they solve problems of their own making.
The same people who create the problems, are still being trusted to clean up their own mess – which they never do. And so it goes, until all hell breaks lose and the entire process of building societies has to be restarted again, and again, and again, with the future of humanity written in the past – in blood. What a wonderful world…

what science is, and what it never was…

In short: Science is never-ending curiosity in thoughtful action about the world and how it behaves. Science is never settled at any level, any subject, or for any reason.
The scientific method drawn as a circle The scientific method:
Observations | Questions | Search literature | Hypothesis | Experiment | Collect data | Conclusions | Share results | Develop interventions | Ask new questions … and repeat.
Even shorter: never break the scientific circle.

Science is indeed an expanding set of continuous circles, with beginnings, but no ends. Many have tried to block progress in science throughout human history, and such efforts have always been introduced by the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. That science sometimes have to find ways around ethical dilemmas, does not change the fact that it is, and will always be, an ongoing and unstoppable process.

text in image What science is about:
• What we can prove.
• Thinking of alternative explanations.
• Creativity and ingenuity.
• Teamwork.
• A mixture of wonder and skepticism.
As the only reasons anyone has ever blocked, halted or censored scientific processes have been purely political (with a shade of religion over the reasoning at times), sensible people will simply write such attempts off as totally senseless acts performed by utter morons, and keep on searching for and collecting more knowledge and information on the actual subjects.

text in image What science is not about:
• What we would like to believe.
• Arguing in favor of one position.
• Status and reputation.
• Personality and persuasiveness.
• Just collecting a lot of facts.
Without continuous and methodical research into all aspects of the nature we rely on, humanity will stagnate, and we will end up having to deal with all the man-made crises politicians and other corrupt beings in power can come up with, without the aid of knowledge and means to look beyond the humbug. With the characters we are up against, we need all the help we can get.

on the road, again…

text in image The road to hell is paved with good intentions
The road to hell here on Earth, is indeed paved with good intentions … on top of thick layers of broken promises and sacrificed souls. And those who have put themselves in charge of these “projects” have no intention of halting the sacrificing of mankind and nature any time soon, as their intentions are only supposed to be really good for them and theirs, and not so good for anyone else.
Again: history repeats itself.
No one in their right mind would want to go down that route if they knew to where and what it lead, but once there our choices are limited.

politicized science is organized crime…

Politics can be defined as wide and all-including as any brothers and sisters in crime could ever want, and there are no limits to what people in politics and “associated” positions can pretend to be and can do to harm us for their own gains. Individuals may not have started out their political careers with bad intentions, but nearly all will end up just as cynical, arrogant and corrupt as the others after a while.
Whenever politicians and others in power claim to base their work on science, politically based fiction with hardly any roots in real science but a few common words, seems to be their entire base.

Not a single person in those criminal circles, including the “scientists”, “experts” and “consultants” they have given mandate and/or paid to back up their fictional stories, can be trusted to be truthful or care for anybody or anything but themselves and their like-minded friends and colleagues. Guess that is why more and more real scientists speak up and/or leave their positions, as they see the most important points in their carefully crafted work being left out and replaced with outdated political dogmas and pure garbage. Politicized science, or science performed on political terms, does not deserve to be recognized as serious science.

personal freedom is sacred

True science never threatens personal freedom. Instead it leaves us enlightened and asking for more updated and detailed information. Knowledge is power.
The threats always come in the form of misuse of power from the political establishments, these days all too often led by the most capitalistic, dictatorial, and terroristic conglomerates one can find on the world stage.

That political figures and groups more and more often redefine and rewrite, and then hide their actions behind, socalled “scientific documentation”, does in no way reduce the involved's responsibility for their many harmful procedures and actions … rather the opposite.

Right, only independent and/or true scientists can be trusted to apply and maintain high standards in their work, and the proof can always be found in the original documentation they release. Reading politically redacted documentation and what is called “summaries for political bodies” is a waste of time, and acting on it is totally meaningless.

So while I am perfectly comfortable with what comes out of true and progressing science, I will always be on alert for the many false claims that are being presented in the name of science.
Did I miss anything?

sincerely georg; signature

Hageland 30.apr.2022
last rev: 03.may.2022

side notes.

continuous information war…

Words like “fake”, “misleading”, “falsified”, “propaganda”, “lies”, and so on and so forth, are thrown around so often in all media channels that they drown out and hamper attempts at finding the stories those words/terms are aimed at.
It is absurd, and media act as if they are totally oblivious to the fact that it has always been like that … at least from back in the stone age when rough rock carvings and earth-color paintings were major ways of sharing information. Thus, nobody outside the propaganda mills and influencer circles needs to be told that nearly all we are being fed via the majority of media outlets today is worthless nonsense, and that the rest is not worth much either unless one is very good at reading between the lines and connecting dots.

While I personally do not mind that media are feeding me information that I find flawed, misleading and often outright absurd, I do mind that the same media censor or modify information that they find to be flawed and misleading. I want all available information served raw and unadulterated, as I am quite capable of sorting and “cooking” news and all else to make it palatable at my end, and am not in need of a nanny.

Also; what is found good enough to end up on my dish, is nobody's business but mine. “Free speech” is not worth much if others are allowed to judge what we, as individuals, choose to consume, or not, of same speech. Whatever algorithms service providers and others use, we do not have to let them into our heads.

gather real knowledge…

In addition to losing knowledge about all the stuff media censor out and we have not been taught in school, we also risk losing knowledge about all the stuff we for whatever reason refuse to look into. With so much lost initially, it does not take long for us humans to become totally ignorant of the wider world we live in, and suffer under the control of greedy politicians and other criminals.

To avoid falling into this deadly trap of ignorance, we should gather as much knowledge as possible about all that affect our lives. It is all documented somewhere, and we only have to look for the most valuable scientific and practical parts where we are being told not to bother looking.

No need to become a professional scientist in any field, in order to read and grok the basics of their work.
1) Start by leaving out all preconceived, media and influencer promoted opinions, and all political dogmas. Facts in nature have never been affected by any of that, and neither should our unique and independent minds.
2) Make sure the documents are the original ones, and not some redacted and/or over-popularized versions. What politicians or business people have had their hands on, is an absolute no-no.
3) Parts that are not well understood are better skipped and left for later. All will become clearer when last paragraphs are read.
4) Read more original documents on the same subject. There are always more ways to view any subject, and some of it may even make sense to us non-professionals.
5) Make your very own notes as you go. Most of us are unlikely to remember much of what we have read half-an-hour after we have read it. (Personally I'll give it 30 seconds.)

A few rounds like the above, and you may start to really enjoy reading scientific documents and practical guides. May end up being your favorite pass-time activity, and major sources of knowledge. It is not possible to know too much.

takeaways…

Never memorize something that you can look up.
— Albert Einstein

The IPCC reports have been read in a similar way to the Bible: you try to find certain pieces or sections from which you try to justify your extreme views. This resembles religious extremism.
— Petteri Talaas, WMO, 6.september 2019

everyone has their price…

The lesson of the day, and every day, is that money can buy absolute loyalty from just about everyone – including scientists. We all know that that is true, and that people with the integrity to stand their ground regardless of offer are too few to mention.

Of course, those who want to can find those steadfast people, and also find that they are not so few after all. Most of them also do not like to be listed up alongside people who have sold their integrity for money or to keep their jobs, and would rather have their own statements heard. I most certainly would like to hear their statements, and also any amendments they may have made to politicized documents.

related…

diversions…

Listening to politicians (and other more or less professional sales-people) may sometimes be fun, but if we check back a while later their sales pitches quite often have changed so much that one may be excused for neither recognizing the people nor their causes. No big deal really, as the “products” they try to sell us rarely ever are of much use to anyone anyway, and it really does not matter if they present socalled “new ideas”, or recycle something from decades, or even centuries, back in time. Nothing new under the sun…