Science is getting a pretty bad rap these days – and sadly, it is not totally undeserved. It is so common to hear or read about people promoting a particular political agenda saying, “Follow the science.” What they mean is that scientists have done experiments and research and demonstrated something to be true.
However, these days, too often when people say that, they are not promoting science at all – they are promoting some political policy or other agenda. How many times have we heard politicians and bureaucrats tell the public that cloth masks will keep you from getting COVID, or that people getting the COVID vaccine will not get the virus and can’t spread it. And on top of that, anyone who dares question the “science” gets cancelled on social media.
But what is coming out more and more is that what has been touted as science is not actually science at all. (Continue reading here.)