Kakistocracy: We are Ruled by Charlatans, Knaves, and Fools. Scientific Integrity, Part VIII

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell

 By Rich Kozlovich

(Editor's Note:  This is Part VII in this ongoing series, and has been sitting forgotten in my draft file. I've updated and added a lot of material, and I have a lot more I didn't use.  Here is  Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, and Part VII.  You may wish to view my entire kakistocracy file, which will include the articles from this series.  I had intended to add more but it was a difficult and massive undertaking and turning into a job.   RK)

Let's start with this profound truth.  The Holy Grail of science is no longer truth. It's grant money, and when science becomes rich, it becomes politics.  

As we watch the world move along embracing irrational self serving social, scientific political, and cultural paradigms were seeing societies striving diligently to cancel their culture, corrupting science with politics, enforcing a thought crimes from a small  segment of society that's never satisfied, and never will be satisfied, destroying great institutions because their leadership is filled with self serving invertebrates.  All science now must be predicated on race, just as in Nazi Germany you couldn't separate mathematics from race, primarily Jewishness.  

Lysenkoism is now rampant in American science, and just as scientists under Stalin buckled under, so too it's happening in America. Scientists who are prominent and respected are afraid to speak out for fear not only of their careers, but their personal safety. 

Censorship is now the agenda in academia, Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist from the University of Chicago, was invited to deliver a lecture at MIT but outraged activists filled the social media with demands he be cancelled because he had the audacity to call for "equal opportunity, fairness, merit-based evaluation, and academic freedom".  MIT caved and in spite of their alleged policy on openness, they demonstrate a culture of cowardice. 

Britain has now become a totalitarian state.  Anyone who refuses to go along with the mutilation of young children for transgender purposes must be made to suffer, and they're being arrested.  If you're guilty of "wrong thinking", you will not be tolerated.   This is an injustice that's being acted on, and it's being enacted on in the real world, and from what can reasonably and historically be called America's mother country.

SCIENTIFIC CORRUPTION

How The Left Succeeded - A truly evil man named Noah Harari, a futurist advisor to the World Economic Forum (WEF), told the forum that they must become the majority and leave the rest behind. He was saying we don’t need regular folks. We don’t need carpenters, plumbers, hairdressers, mechanics, automobile workers, farmers, and ranchers. They are all lesser lights. What we want to accomplish on this planet is all for us, Harari was saying.

For the WEF and other related organizations, this statement was acknowledging the globalist elites’ desire to activate Eugenics. It was introduced in the latter part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century in Russia, where all science that did not fit their desired narrative was rejected. In the end, it set back Russia for decades. It is happening here in the US and will likely have the same result setting our nation back decades if we don’t stop it. Deciding that emissions of carbon dioxide are bad with no science to support it is an example of Eugenics which disregards all science it does not agree with.......

 Corrupted science: The Left’s Machiavellian bludgeon - By Michael J. Maxwell November 25, 2021- Science is a noble human endeavor with the goal of discovering, examining, testing, explaining, harnessing, and preserving physical nature for the benefit and advancement of humankind.  Moreover, the virtuous pursuits of science serve to augment our understanding of the previously unknown.  In its purest application, science is never truly settled.  Science is not suited to reach concrete conclusions on the how, when, where, or why of the cosmic mysteries of the material universe, its creation, or its Creator.  For science, in its historically accepted proper application, is not based on conjecture alone.  Scientific theories must be proven factually, through exhaustive experimentation and testing, to become relevant, applied, and useful.  The publishing of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity in 1916 was followed by extraordinarily frustrating, peer-generated attacks on his groundbreaking science. A booklet was published in 1931 titled A Hundred Authors Against Einstein, featuring many ill-informed contributions. In total, 121 authors are identified as opponents to Einstein’s vaunted Theory of Relatively........

 Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back (quillette.com) Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman 18 Dec 2021 - Earlier this year, I (Anna) did something that my friends feared I would come to regret: I publicly spoke out against the intrusion of illiberal thought into science and education, with a letter entitled, The Peril of Politicizing Science, published on June 10th in The Journal of Physical Chemistry. In that letter, I drew on my own early life in the USSR, where communist ideology permeated all aspects of life, and survival required strict adherence to the party line and enthusiastic displays of ideologically proper behavior.  I noted that certain names and ideas are now forbidden within academia for ideological reasons, just as had been the case in my youth. My own home town of Yuzovka, I noted, was called Trotsk (after Leon Trotsky), then renamed Stalino after Trotsky was purged, then Donetsk when Stalin was posthumously canceled by Khrushchev. ............

Ten (10) Ways Science is Being Attacked - Jon Parmentola, commented on John Droz Jr.’s Substack site - I allege that if you look at those in the administrative structure of the National Academies, they are dominated by humanities majors. The same is true of universities and colleges. The assault on science comes from the humanities. I saw it when I was a professor. Those in the humanities were jealous because those in STEM could buy time off teaching through grants to do research. The humanities were subordinate to those in STEM. That is not true anymore.

You can trace this contempt for science to the poet William Blake, who referred to Newton’s discoveries as Newton’s sleep. The assault on the Constitution has to do with its formulation more along the lines of a scientific theory of managing governance and social behavior. It is also evident in the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident……. It is formulated according to postulates like Euclid's plane geometry.

It's no accident since Jefferson was a scientist of sorts. For those in the humanities there is no objective truth or cause and effect. Their fields of research are riddled with storytelling and nonsense. That is what we are fighting. 83% of college/university graduates major in the humanities. They fundamentally practice pseudo-science by using a narrative to dismiss facts that contradict their narrative. It's the exact opposite of the scientific method......

Science Needs a New Paradigm - By Robert Arvay November 27, 2017 - Science and politics used to be very separate institutions. Where they did overlap, science was nonpartisan. The role of scientists was to provide objective evidence -- and dispassionate, nonpolitical interpretations of that evidence. Indeed, one rarely if ever could detect the political leanings of any particular scientist. 

Also, science and religion used to get along, at least for the most part. Today, that has changed, and the results include significant dangers for society. For example, the topic of climate change has produced the myth of “settled science.” Science is never settled. While we all may agree that the climate does change, there is an anti-capitalist agenda behind the claims of many scientists -- that we must radically reduce our standards of living to prevent climate catastrophe. Politics and ideology, not science, promote that so-called scientific view...........

TRANSGENDERISM

Scientists Shocked to Discover That Male and Female Athletes are Different! Brian C. Joondeph, M.D. A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. Claiming otherwise is magical thinking, fine for one to indulge personally, but not at an athletic, societal, or cultural level. It was once a commonsense belief and universal truth that men and women, boys and girls, are different, especially in the realm of athletics. With rare exceptions, men and women compete in their own categories, from high school level through college to the Olympic games and professional sports. Mixed competitions place women and men on the same team, such as mixed doubles in tennis, or dancing, either in the ballroom, or on ice. Equestrian sports are an exception, but the fact that a horse is a major part of the sport reduces the sex difference between competitors. ......

The leading ‘scientific’ agency behind so-called transgenderism allegedly knew its ‘treatments’ could be dangerous and ineffective -  March 6, 2024 by Andrea Widburg - Because WPATH has been the recognized authority for “trans” care in America and Europe, these revelations could bring down the once-powerful organization. On Monday, Michael Shellenberger’s organization, Environmental Progress (“EP”), published a report that may end the trans movement. It obtained what it says are leaked files from WPATH—the World Professional Association of Transgender Health—which has set the standard of so-called “care” for so-called “transgenderism” across America. These files reveal that the people behind WPATH were allegedly aware of evidence showing that their recommendations were unhelpful and dangerous......

Lack of Consent, Liver Cancer, Reduced Sexual Function: Internal Docs Reveal Experimental Nature of “Gender-Affirming Care” - By Tyler O'Neil, Daily Signal Mar. 5, 2024 - Doctors at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health repeatedly struggled with various side effects of what they call “gender-affirming care,” including cancer in teens, reduced sexual function, and the lack of informed consent for procedures with lifelong impacts, newly unearthed documents reveal. WPATH, a controversial organization that transgender advocates and health agencies use to justify “transgender” medical interventions, frames itself as the leading expert organization on medical care for people who identify as transgender. It has faced criticism for advocating experimental practices that ignore serious concerns about informed consent and long-term side effects.....The practice of sexually ‘transitioning’ children will be remembered as one of the “greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine,” a report commissioned by French senators stated......  

 

Bombshell Report: Trans ‘Treatments’ for Children One of ‘Greatest Ethical Scandals in Medical History’ -  The practice of sexually ‘transitioning’ children will be remembered as one of the “greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine,” a report commissioned by French senators stated. A landmark report produced at the behest of the centre-right Les Républicains in the French Senate found that the medical industry embarked upon the practice of giving children life-altering transgender treatments with little evidence of its effectiveness while ignoring the side effects. The report found that while parents were often pressured by doctors to put their children on puberty-blocking drugs to prevent suicide, there is little proof that this course of action has any better outcomes for the child........  

 

Transgender ‘affirmation’ has long-term consequences, Oklahoma City psychiatrist says “Affirming” a child’s belief that he or she is actually the opposite gender puts those children on a fast-track to medical interventions that have severe, negative side effects that cause that child to be a patient for the rest of their lives, according to a local expert.  And in most cases the gender distress expressed by children is often resolved within a few years when the child is not subjected to puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones.

“Every single patient deserves to be treated with respect, with dignity, with empathy, with compassion, and they deserve excellent medical care,” said Lauren Schwartz, a board-certified psychiatrist and psychotherapist in Oklahoma City. “That’s not what’s going on here.”......... “social affirmation,” the practice of calling a child by opposite-sex pronouns or allowing the child to dress as a member of the opposite sex, “is not harmless.”

“Parents think that affirming their child is kind and loving. That’s what they’re told......But it’s not kind of loving to validate an untruth........That psychological pressure leads to further actions with permanent physical and mental consequences.......allowing a child to receive “puberty blockers” in response to gender dysphoria can fuel an iatrogenic effect in which an alleged response to a condition is actually responsible for creating or worsening the condition. Children who feel they don’t fit in truly don’t fit in with their peers after use of puberty blockers......

........ some medical websites claim that puberty blockers simply “pause puberty to give children time to think,” are fully reversible, harmless, safe, effective, and lifesaving.......“None of these things are accurate,”......  puberty blockers have significant side effects that are not fully reversible. Those side effects include damage to the hypothalamus, which regulates body and brain development, communication between hormones and the nervous system, sleep-wake cycles, temperature regulation, fluid balance, heart rate, hunger, and reproduction.  “These are not small things that we are impacting,”

The drugs used as puberty blockers have never received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval as treatments for gender dysphoria.....The side effects caused by puberty blockers also include diminished bone density, early-onset osteoporosis, chronic bone pain and fractures (which does not cease even when the use of puberty blockers is halted), increased risk of infertility, permanent negative impacts on adult sexual function, and cognitive impairment.  “It does impact IQ,”.........adding that the full cognitive impact of puberty blockers remains unknown.

Male patients who are given female hormones have increased risk of blood clots, tumors of the pituitary gland, strokes, high cholesterol, and irreversible infertility. Female patients who take male hormones experience increased red-blood cells (which negatively impacts the heart and cardiovascular system); severe liver dysfunction; heart attacks; depression; hypertension; breast, cervical, and uterine cancers; and irreversible infertility.

“They are going to be a patient for life,” ....... “If you arrest puberty and you put someone on cross-sex hormones and you remove their organs that produce their own biological hormones, they’re going to have to take hormones for the rest of their life.”......

CLIMATE

‘Climate fatigue’ sabotages the ‘net zero’ agenda - July 8, 2024 by Olivia Murray -A win is a win. Here’s this, from one of my favorite bloggers, and shared with me by one of AT’s dearest friends: Climate Fatigue strikes in Ireland: Most people don’t believe it harms them and have no plans to be vegetarian or give up their cars Yet another survey shows most people know what to say when asked banal questions of climate dogma — ‘Yes they are ‘very worried’. But more than half the population don’t believe climate change is going to harm them and they have ‘no intention’ of giving up meat, or their cars or their pets......

 

‘They’ shrieked about ‘global warming’ — but now they admit we were ‘accidentally cooling’ - July 8, 2024 by Jack Hellner - Is there anything less trustworthy or credible than government-promoted science?  When it comes to climate science, basically, researchers, mainstream media outlets, the UN, and the Democrats simply make things up as they go along to fit the narrative.  When the earth didn’t warm up as much as they predicted, they changed the terminology from global warming to climate change. When hundreds of dire predictions never came true, and they had no scientific data to support their policies to destroy industries and our quality and way of life, they just made things up, just like they did with COVID. Now, take a look at this, from The Washington Post, via Yahoo News: 

 

Protesters Who Conspired to Block Roads Get 4 Years in Prison A good start -  July 19, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield - The good news is that at least some of the radicals plotting to block roads are facing consequences. The bad news is that it’s happening in the UK, not in America, where there are still light gentle slaps on wrists being dispensed by leftists to their fellow leftists who block roads, vandalize museums, and terrorize people.....

Biden sending $120 million to tribes for climate change war - The Biden administration announced Thursday that it is giving Native American tribes across the country a total of $120 million to fight climate change. The Department of the Interior (DOI) is disseminating the money, which will be split into 146 different awards to support projects that enhance "climate resilience" in tribal communities. The funding is inspired in part by the administration's view that Native American populations are among the least able to prepare or recover from climate change's impacts.

 

Climate Change and a science we can trust -  The American left occasionally professes to have some investment in Christianity, but those are words, and as the Scripture teaches, by their fruits shall you know them. By their words, actions and boondoggles, the inevitable conclusion is their one, true faith is political power, and one of its principle tenets is “climate change.” Their revealed faith used to be known as “global warming,” but all of a sudden, the global stopped warming, and hasn’t warmed for some two decades. Embarrassing. Thus, the holy crusade was rebranded “climate change,” which has the advantage of being at least marginally true. The climate, like the weather, changes. Unfortunately, actual science reveals past climate hasn’t changed as they’ve claimed, so they simply ignore that science and make their own......

The results are in: How much will wind energy cost this one state’s consumers?"> - August 26, 2024 by Olivia Murray - About four times as much, with an additional three billion in taxpayer dollars—some might call this “price-gouging.”On Friday, The Wall Street Journal published an article by Gordon Hughes that (somewhat rhetorically) asked this titular question: “Why Is New York Paying So Much for Wind Power?” Hughes called the reader’s attention to the revelation that the state of New York had entered into a contract with two wind energy companies, an agreement that will quadruple the cost of energy for the consumer—and that’s including three billion in taxpayer dollars to offset the final price per megawatt-hour—which is “far above the break-even cost of generating electricity.” Some might call this… “price-gouging” and “corporate greed.” (Just not the progressive Democrats sanctioning seemingly-endless corrupt business schemes in the “green energy” sector with the public’s pocketbook and the power of the pen.) Mike Shedlock at MishTalk breaks it down here:.....

 

MEDICINE 

 

The ‘Can We?’ and the ‘Should We?’ of Science- The remarkable journey of the COVID-19 virus — from bat caves in Laos to freezers in Wuhan, through test tubes and gene-editing machines and “humanized mice,” and finally out into the rest of the world and through your lungs and mine, often two or three or four times by now — has made a lot of people think long and hard about whether they can trust scientists, as a whole, to do the right thing.  As well it should have.  Defenders of the status quo are quick to admonish the plebs for not trusting the experts, as they point to the fact that most professional virologists are in favor of keeping gain-of-function research going.  How can you, a pleb, act as though you know more about virology than the average virologist?.....