In an attempt to silence Americans, radical leftists have frequently argued in recent years by using the slogan: “The science is settled.”
This has particularly occurred with any discussion surrounding COVID-19 infection and vaccination.
Simply mentioning the topic will instantly generate censorship labeling on social media along with a link to the all-knowing, government-run CDC website.
To question or investigate “the science” is compared to speaking violence and causing death.
President Joe Biden’s former chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci even argued that any criticism of him is a criticism of science.
“Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” Dr. Fauci said, adding that he “represents science.”
He continued, “All of the things that I have spoken about, consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science.”
In reality, this is literally the exact opposite of how science works.
Science is constantly and continually changing and evolving. This occurs precisely through asking questions and conducting further investigation.
Major prior scientific conclusions are regularly reexamined and changed.
Scientists don’t merely add more facts to our scientific repository, but rather change previously inaccurate or incomplete scientific views.
In the words of Twitter boss Elon Musk, he announced that the “New Twitter policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science.”
The science is anything that His Eminence Lord Fauci says it is. His Excellency is science.https://t.co/02fqpOSsbo
— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) December 28, 2022
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking once attacked the idea of “settled science.”
In A Brief History of Time, Hawking writes, “Each time new experiments are observed to agree with the predictions the theory survives, and our confidence in it is increased; but if ever a new observation is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory. At least that is what is supposed to happen.”
Hawking argued the science is never settled. Good scientific theory should be questioned, and is thus unsettled.
In the words of Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, he told MSNBC in 2007 that “the press generally does not convey the uncertainty in the information provided by the scientists.”
“This is rampant in medical circles, where people are waiting for that next cure for some ailment,” he added.
Tyson continued, “So there’s not enough conversation about the trials, the integrity of the results as it flows out of the number of trials that were conducted, the uncertainties of the analysis. These are not part of the communication toolbox of the science journalist.”
Fast-forwarding to 2021, President Joe Biden falsely told Americans, “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”
Biden tested positive for COVID one year after this comment.
Also in 2007, Neil deGrasse Tyson said, “The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them.”
“That’s just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong,” Tyson concluded.
