A brief history of close-minded science.
History has no shortage of examples of top scientists and “experts” being closed to new ideas. Today, the COVID-19 vaccine is just one of the worst examples. Despite dozens of studies, doctor statements, and gov’t data, top scientists still claim the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective. Yet there’s no proper study to support their claim. It’s likely some of them are being paid to be anti-science. It’s also likely they simply are not that bright to begin with, or they say things out of fear of losing their job. They can’t afford to lose their job because sheeple cannot manage the money they have.
Here are some examples of the bigotry of top scientists and “experts” in the past 200+ years.
A guy wants to lift himself via a hot air balloon in the 1700s. Top “scientists” simply declared it to be impossible, with no argument to support their claim. And yet he did it. Even when people saw it, some said it was impossible. Sheeple are nothing new.
When germ theory appeared, top scientists scoffed at it, their own ego powering their baseless opinion. Once again they had no rational argument to back up their opinion. Back in the day, most women feared going to the hospital to have a baby because so many women died. Why did they die? Because when a doctor was doing an autopsy, they would just go to help deliver a baby without even washing their hands. Then they would pass on germs to the mother. Death rates for delivering mothers at a hospital was about 40%. Death rates for delivering mothers at home was about 10-20%. So you can see their hesitancy to embrace the concept of hospitals. Even with multiple cases of clear cause and effect, top doctors still denied there was something causing sickness.
When the Wright brothers wanted to make a wooden airplane fly, top “experts” simply declared it impossible, again with no logical argument or math to support their random opinion. They still flew.
When people wanted to make a metal airplane fly, experts said it was impossible, yet it happened anyway.
When people wanted to make ocean ships out of steel, experts simply said “impossible!” Yet it still happened.
When people wanted to put a man on the moon experts said that was impossible as well. Yet it still happened.
Clueless politicians
Even clueless politicians have been around for 700+ years. Back in the Great Plague of the 1340s they didn’t have germ theory, yet a few rare politicians decided to close the doors of the city to keep people out. They didn’t know that rats carried the fleas that carried the plague, yet these cities still had the lowest death rates from the plague by a wide margin, as far as the records can tell us.
Most other politicians kept the city gates open, “for trade reasons”, i.e. they did it for the money. And to keep their jobs. These cities had a far higher death rate because of their short-sighted decision.
Even today at work we were required to read a book about Oz and how it applies to management style. The biggest problem the book listed: managers and decision makers were short-sighted. They preferred short term profits over long term survival of the company. In the 1990s Lee Iacocca wrote a book about the poor managers of the day, which persists today.
While not all managers are bad, most are tepid, or down right dangerous to the company. Congress and politicians are in a similar circumstance. In my management classes the people there had the highest rate of the most lazy and unmotivated people I had ever seen. The people in my art class superseded these management goofballs by a significant margin for self-motivation and and making common sense decisions. The problem here, I think, is the parents of these kids want them to go to college, but the kids don’t know what to do, so they go into management because it’s easy. It is easy.
But I come from the perspective of STEM classes which are much more difficult, require high intelligence, high self-motivation, and brutal honesty with self to achieve a very high level of problem solving. (I’m an engineer.)
Do I know everything? Of course not. Do I know a little about a lot of things? Yes. This allows me to do analysis across multiple disciplines, which I find very helpful. Do I know enough to ask more questions? Yes, and my curiosity and drive to solve problems also helps.
If you are here today, you are probably smarter than you would like to admit. Be happy in that.
More recent US problems
The US gov't said all these 30 chemicals and meds were safe but they were later banned or found to be dangerous. 2,4-d (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, a herbicide), acetamiprid, Agent Orange, asbestos, aspartame sweetener, cigarettes (actual ads would say doctors recommend them, and they are good for asthma), DDT (which they sprayed on people at the beach), DES (a synthetic estrogen given to pregnant moms), diazinon, epoxiconazole, flame retardant on clothes in the US, fluroxypyr, fracking, Glyphosate, imidacloprid, isoproturon, lead paint, malathion, mercury fillings, microbeads, organophosphates, parathion, PCBs, pirimicarb, prochloraz, sucralose sweetener, tebuconazole, tetrachlorvinphos, thalidomide, Vioxx. **Do you really trust your gov't?** 4500 FDA drug recalls. https://www.drugwatch.com/fda/recalls/
Sometimes the skeptics are right, but for the wrong reasons. This will be clearer as we go forward.
Science is a process. They tried to psyop us into treating it as a religion, but it failed hilariously.