Originally Posted by
mcap
Science being a tyrant isn't what's largely happened, it's tyrant scientists that are more interested in grifting for funding than they are in the science. Same as journalists when they are demonized as a profession they need to be honest and look at themselves as a group about what level of responsibility they have for that perception. But nothing, ever, in a scientists life was ever a scientists fault, because they're a scientist. Engineers tend to have the same twisted pretzel logic about any possibility of fault.
You're more reasonable than a lot of these guys on here though. I agree about "tyrant scientists" to some degree. What I don't believe is that these types of scientists are the default or majority. Yes, they need funding but to wash off Earth Baking as not being manmade because all these scientists need funding is kinda twisted thinking. I've worked for academic (military) research groups and they had a guy with a PhD whose sole skill from what I could tell was writing grants for the group. There is truth to this, but it doesn't explain the shear volume.
Even by tableplay's numbers the scientists his a 1 in a million longshot coming out of the gate. Imagine this very large consensus of scientists all in agreement, going on for decades to only be right due to shear dumb luck.
Although the way you talk of scientists as some big homogenous group is a head-scratcher. Is this some Fauci thing leading you to this?
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