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If we believe what we are told in our culture, then science looks alive and well. Artificial Intelligence is rising to change our world, there will soon be manned flights to Mars, humans will merge with machines in the new trans-humanism and the singularity is fast approaching. Technology to the rescue. But if we scratch beneath the surface, we can see that this glossy optimistic facade of scientific progress is a pretense.
Yes, there are some great developments and refinements being made with existing technologies, but there are no longer new innovations or genuinely new discoveries breaking new ground in what passes for science, but should properly be called ‘scientism’. Science has been taken over and corrupted. But it didn’t happen last year, or last decade, it has been going on since at least the 1800s.
In this episode of “Living outside the Matrix” Patrik Holmqvist joins me to discuss just some of the many examples where it is claimed that science is being practiced, and yet we see obviously unscientific methods practiced. Most people give high regard to genuine scientific knowledge, often holding it to be the most reliable standard of truth. What happens is that people’s respect for science is appealed to and exploited. The truth is that rigorous scientific method is only practiced when it needs to be. But for public consumption when political expediency demands it, the scientific card is played to make false claims much more believable.
We begin by addressing what exactly is science, and what the scientific method properly is. We then proceed to examine whether it has been followed in health, physics, astronomy, and so-called ‘climate science’. We conclude by examining the causes of the fall of science, such as the philosophical context of idealism and the rejection of reality.
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