THE WORSHIP OF SCIENCE GONE AWRY
. By Yonoson Rosenblum | MARCH 3, 2021The current pandemic is likely the result of science gone mad
WE LIVE in a science-driven society, and all educated people profess to "believe" in science. The most reassuring four words in English are, "Science says, 'Do this.' " But what happens when scientists are contradicting themselves or other scientists? Since the beginning of the pandemic, WHO first told us the fatality rate was 3.4 percent, which turned out to be 0.4 percent. It advised against shutting off air travel from Wuhan, even as China had done so internally. It proclaimed masks to be pointless, even as it was contradicting itself by saying that they must be saved for emergency medical personnel. It strongly advocated for lockdowns, until changing course, upon recognizing that they might well lead to a doubling of world poverty and child malnutrition.
It is no exaggeration to suggest that tens of thousands of lives in the
US alone might have been lost because Dr. Fauci dismissed as worthless
all early intervention treatments — hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin,
blood plasma extracted from healed patients — as not supported by RCTs.
As a result, physicians were left with nothing to treat early stages of
the disease, even when the proposed remedies were cheap, repurposed
generic drugs, whose safety record had been studied for decades in
millions of patients....
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Science: The Gold Standard of Truth
What is truth? You can speak of moral truths and aesthetic truths, but I’m not concerned with those here, important as they may be. By truth I shall mean the kind of truth that a commission of inquiry or a jury trial is designed to establish. I hold the view that scientific truth is of this commonsense kind, although the methods of science may depart from common sense, and its truths may even offend it.
Commissions of inquiry may fail, but we assume a truth is lurking there even if we don’t have enough evidence. Juries sometimes get it wrong, and falsehoods are often sincerely believed. Scientists, too, can make mistakes and publish erroneous conclusions. That’s all regrettable but not deeply sinister. What is profoundly troubling, however, is any wanton attack on truth itself: the value of truth, the very existence of truth. This is what concerns me here.
Some of what I have claimed here about scientific truth may come across
as arrogant. So might my disparagement of certain schools of philosophy.
Science really does know a lot about what is true, and we do have
methods in place for finding out a lot more. We should not be reticent
about that. But science is also humble. We may know what we know, but we
also know what we don’t know. Scientists love not knowing because they
can go to work on it. The history of science’s increasing knowledge,
especially during the past four centuries, is a spectacular cascade of
truths following one on the other. We may choose to call it a cumulative
increase in the number of truths that we know. Or we can tip our hat to
(a better class of) philosophers and talk of successive approximations
toward yet-to-be-falsified provisional truths. Either way, science can
properly claim to be the gold standard of truth....
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Felipe Romero, spokesman for city of Brownsville, told Fox News they tell migrants who test positive to follow CDC quarantine & social distance, but Brownsville doesn’t have authority to stop them from traveling the country.
He said the 108 positives account for 6.3% of migrants rapid tested at the city’s main bus terminal.
Some migrants told Noticias Telemundo Investiga they were tested at the border & allowed to hit the streets despite positive for the virus.
Honduran migrant Miriam Izaguirre, crossed the Rio Grande Monday with her young son & surrendered but was released in a few hours by the Border Patrol. They boarded a bus to Houston & her 3-year-old daughter were going to ride the bus to N. Carolina.
They expect to board a bus to Houston.
Other migrants who tested positive traveled to NC, MD & NJ.
Honduran migrant Eva Orellana & her 3-year-old daughter rode a bus to NC.
”On the way we wearing a mask all the time, gel, wash our hands,” Orellana said. “I don’t feel anything.”
The immigrants didn’t receive documentation they tested positive. They were simply informed they had.
Others were directed to another waiting area, but their movements weren't restricted.
A Border Patrol spokesman told the newspaper migrants receive initial inspection for symptoms but only people suspected are sent for “proper diagnosis & treatment.”
President Biden's reversing many Trump immigration policies & US Customs + Border Protection said in a report last month the border's experiencing a surge of migrants.
CBP also said it's sending additional agents to the border in response to the mounting crisis.
But at a briefing Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas denied a crisis exists.
“The Dept of Homeland Security work round the clock, 7 days a week to ensure we don't have a crisis at the border, that we manage the challenge as acute as it is,” he told reporters.
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.timesofisrael.com/turkish-news-crew-attacked-with-feces-in-jerusalem-ultra-orthodox-area/
A Turkish news crew was attacked in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood on Wednesday, police said.
According to the Israel Police, the windows of the reporters’ vehicle were smashed and excrement was thrown inside - see video. Police were able to reach the crew and extract them from the car.
Police opened an investigation and began searching for suspects, the statement said.
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