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Scientist, doctors, law enforcement, soldiers, teachers, everyone are "the superheroes." Oh scientists save the world do they? From whom, the other scientists
by andrewclunn 4y ago
Scientist, doctors, law enforcement, soldiers, teachers, everyone are "the superheroes." Oh scientists save the world do they? From whom, the other scientists who want to dictate policy, keep people locked in their home, or otherwise indirectly rule the world because "they know the truth?" the more any profession has a hero complex the more dangerous they are. People trust science less and less for valid reasons. We've seen the flaws in the institutions and methodologies. The religion is crumbling, and we need not heroes such as these.
- cjbgkagh 4y agoScientists are very sensitive to funding a lot of which comes from the state. So to me ‘trust the scientists’ is one step away from ‘trust the state’.
- logicalmonster 4y agoThe scientific method is fantastic. And scientists can of course do great things, but at the end of the day they're just people who can be very wrong or misguided about something. Personally speaking, if there's one profession that deserves a lot more credit for the positive things that exist in the world, it's the engineers who actually build stuff. An engineer can't bullshit you to the level that a bad scientist can: there's no faking or ambiguity about a bridge that can't stand upright or a building that collapses.
- vorpalhex 4y agoYour observance is correct, unfortunately I suspect you're getting downvoted due to "tone" (and railing against the current hero cult never goes well anyways). Hero complexes work when an individual can make broad effective change. They don't work in situations requiring heavy cooperation and coordination. Science is a cooperative field. As is law enforcement and medicine. (Teaching may be a bit different - a lone good teacher can make a difference but you need enough cooperation still).
- andrewclunn 4y agoBurning karma to speak truth to power is its only valid use. Policing my own "tone" to please fools will never happen.
- illuminerdy 4y agoI understand what you're trying to say, but the people who the corporate media trot out as "scientists" aren't really scientists. They're beaurocrats wearing lab coats. They are the ones twisting actual science to push agendas. A perfect example is when coronavirus started, people were told by the scientific beaurocrats and the corporate media that they could not go to work or school, that they could not go to visit family, that everything would shut down. And they were told that this was the only way to prevent catastrophe. Fast forward to the Black Lives Matter, Inc. "protests", which began a couple of months later, and those same scientific beaurocrats and the corporate media were literally saying that "social justice" was more important than social distancing. That thousands of people marching shoulder to shoulder should in no way be seen as a "super spreader". Because we all know that "the science" shows that the virus doesn't affect you if it knows you're fighting for "social justice". So don't confuse the beaurocrats in lab coats with actual scientists. No actual scientist talks about science in terms of 'trust' and 'believe'. Science is about questioning, testing hypothesis and trying to verify as best as you can. Trust and belief is the realm of religion. They might as well start telling people to "have faith in the science". People should be able to have confidence in the methods and motives of the science and health professionals. But that will only happen if we get to hear from the actual scientists whose only agenda is actual science.
- rhacker 4y agoI don't think it was all the same people - it was just random media conglomerates controlling the narrative.