erikcason on Nostr: I am constantly fascinated at the religion of science and the ridged authoritarianism ...

I am constantly fascinated at the religion of science and the ridged authoritarianism that comes with it from establishment ‘scientists’ and ‘researchers’.

While real science as a process of testing hypotheses clearly works and has greatly advanced humanity, there seems to be a fundamental disconnect from establishment ‘science’ as bureaucratic process that is self-reinforcing towards itself and its own authority, rather than science itself. To be clear, establishment science is not science at all, and corrupts the very idea of the scientific procedure through using authoritarianism, rather than proof of work to show why their science is actually correct.

This is why so many people today are willing (and mostly correct) in calling well understood scientific processes like vaccination a scam—because it is! It’s no longer real scientific vaccination, but has integrated profit motives of establishment ‘science’ that is more self-serving than scientific.

This is why doctors, scientists; and other ‘experts’ are indigent when it is suggested they are not beyond corruption and that perhaps the pharmaceutical companies or other corporations that sponsor their work could possible be manipulating the ‘science’ to be self-serving to make money. They cannot even think about or consider this because of the existentialism that is brought up from such thoughts.

Similar to The Church; doctors and scientists of the established system believe themselves (not the truth of science) to be the real purveyors of truth and health. They see themselves as being heros who have valiantly self-sacrificed to practice their religion or science as is the truth of the world. The very suggestion that perhaps they do not actually understand what ‘health’ or ‘science’ evokes the greatest of indignation as it suggest that maybe they are doing more harm than good, which results from them not being committed to the truth of the scientific process first and foremost; but the dark and callow truth that they are more concerned about how they will pay their bills and keep their job. Asking hard questions doesn’t do that, obeying blind however does.