We’re publishing an original article today by Dr Sinéad Murphy, a Research Associate in Philosophy at Newcastle University, about the descent into unreason prompted by an over-reliance on scientific advice. She begins by lamenting the fact that her autistic son has been sent home from school – again.
When I went to pick up Joseph from school, I was received at a side gate by two members of staff, the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Coordinator, and the Deputy Head who also happens to be the Head of Science. Overseeing the exclusion of a disabled child on the grounds that a classmate or young teacher had received a positive result in a notoriously inaccurate test for the presence of a virus whose lethality for children and young teachers is statistically zero, were the two staff members in whom the school entrusts the promotion of respect for and aptitude in science, and the welfare of its disabled children – in a state of madness like ours, such ironies proliferate.
There they were, the advocates for science and disability, ready to escort the children out of the classroom by the shortest possible route; seven-year-olds who had carelessly gambolled in the front door that morning were now deemed such biological hazards that they could not be suffered to pass through the school corridors as they departed.
There they were, the school’s specially appointed guardians of reason and humanity, standing outside in the northern sunshine with masks covering their faces.
Worth reading in full.
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Because, in the minds of the many, science is a culture of faith in “experts”.
No, no, no. Science is a culture of DOUBT. But they don’t get that.
The new “science” is the new religion.
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An excellent article. I have printed it. It will form the basis of a lesson I and my wife shall be giving to our two children – home-educated since October 2020. The council continues to pester and threaten us, bleating about their “duty of care towards all children of [the city]”.
I think the kids got it. A written summary of the main points is my suggestion to them.
“They don’t teach this in school!”
And ‘we’ know why…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvr30mQF9ek
Read Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s latest blog entry, all about the corruption of science.
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Not to make light of the situation but…I think they’ve all escaped from the Home For Deranged Scientists….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoJKWR3DIuA
Well you can outsource decision making but you cannot outsource responsibility. The politicians are to blame, primarily. And we don’t know for sure the extent to which SAGE are following orders rather than trying to give them.
Precisely. The most dangerous of times are when individuals outsource their responsibility to those in their immediate surroundings or under their personal care. Stanley Milgram knew this. I wonder if the two “experts” at this little boy’s school have ever heard of his experiment. Or even read any history books, for that matter…
As it is colloquially known, “papering over your arse”.
SAGE is following orders or it would be gone. That being said, SAGE members seem content to spout utter nonsense, perhaps not too surprising as most of them will gain in some way from the over egging of Covid-19, whatever that really is.
“Well you can outsource decision making but you cannot outsource responsibility. The politicians are to blame, primarily. “
Yes.
Though I’d word it slightly differently at the end.
The politicians are responsible. Lots of people are to blame, certainly including all the members of SAGE who have not spoken out, “opposition” politicians who have failed o oppose, the media figures who have meekly collaborated with censorship and propaganda, the courts who have failed to honestly address issues brought before them, the police who have enthusiastically pushed the boundaries of powers they have been wrongfully given…
Responsibility focusses, blame spreads widely.
Indeed. I suggest the root of the problem is that science has become a kind of religion for many scientists. As Richard Dawkins boast, most of the scientists of the Royal Academy are atheists, which means of course they must find meaning in the opposite to the theistic foundations of civilisation.
We have, as Francis Bacon envisaged in his utopia ‘New Atlantis’ (published in 1626), a ‘scientific priesthood’, who believe that society must be run uniquely on empirical knowledge (scientia), disregarding the other forms of knowledge wisdom (prudentia and sapientia).
One might expect, here in England, the Church of England to take on this scientific priesthood, but it doesn’t, it meekly submits to it, just as it submits to Woke, as I wrote in this piece on my blog:
What moves the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead us into this Satanic Revolution? | mark pickles, writer and artist (wordpress.com)
Civilisation derives from reason, not from faith in an imaginary friend.
What an original retort – did you think of it yourself?
Richard Dawkins hardly qualifies as a ‘scientist’
It’s also science without ethics or morals. No one questions whether something should be done, only whether it can be done.
An illustration:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zmOD_Hxjvyo&feature=emb_title
MOUTH WIDE SHUT / Hugo Talks Some More
What brilliant thinkers we had decades ago.
I would summarize this science and big tech simply as ‘trying to play God’.
As someone who has neighbours with an autistic child (admittedly high-functioning) who relishes the framework of school, but has been similarly pushed out – and also having been involved in education and special needs – I feel for any parent in this position.
The reaction of myself and contemporaries, with education backgrounds,pondering schools over the last year and some, has universally been :
“You WHAT??????”
But is this essentially about ‘science‘? I would argue that it is about the corruption of scientific reason by political corruption.
As Julian says – the decision making is in the hands of government. They choose the framing of advice.
I’d say it’s a lot more to do with politics, and selfishness masquerading as concern for the community.
Another drop in this ocean of sadistic, triumphant cruelty.
Indeed.
Long time no see, Jo. Hope you and your girls are well.
Hi Nymeria, lovely to hear from you. I’ve been lurking and commenting now and then. We’re OK thanks, hope you and yours are too.
We’re plodding along reasonably enough, thanks.
That we are under the control of obsessive managers is plain, real to them only in that we are objects of measurement, and suspicious to the extent that we evade it.
But is it correct that this comes out of science? Isn’t science the costume of the managers, and the managers are a rent-seeking class of mediocre types that have somehow interposed themselves between the owners and the workers. Or something like that.
I’ve been reading Samuel T Francis. At some point in the 19th century the small bourgeois capitalist owner/manager could no longer cope with the scale of business and technology. So the managerial class was born, that began to direct to profits to itself. Today’s massive bureaucracies are the same, done at the state level.
Anything that increases its scope to manage is to be promoted: more population, more illness, more technocracy, more atomisation, more cultural division. At the extreme, more crime and war. Anything that resists is suspect: independent small business, cash, privacy, strong borders, hierarchy, particularity, self-organisation, tradition.
It feels like the abolition of cash is the moment the ceiling closes over us. The way out, I suppose, is the collapse of the fiat money: where the wealth of the 19th manager was real & taken from the earth, today’s is unreal (the article’s reference to imagined sciencey ‘ideals’), taken from a projected future.
The language of science is to the managers what coconuts and sticks were to the Pacific Islanders in those cargo cults.
https://rumble.com/vitcgn-following-the-science.html
I urge everyone who hasn’t seen this documentary to watch it. It is an hour long and covers the virus, lockdowns, masks and the vaccines. How we are being misled worldwide is scandalous. I have passed it on to friends and family.
Not scientists, witch doctors or doctators masquerading poorly as science.
This hasn’t really been about science – but about fear. The relentless promotion of fear by our government has been extraordinarily successful. The science says this virus is maybe about twice as bad as a really bad flu in terms of overall mortality (we should start referring to it as “double-flu”). And for this we’ve caused an insane amount of damage. Damage to our country, to our economy, to our businesses, to our psyches, to our social bonds, to our children, to the health of anyone suffering from something other than covid . . . Insane if your goal is public health I suppose. Not so insane if you have some other agenda at play here.
If you try and rationalise any of this in terms of science or health you won’t get very far, because in these terms very little about our response makes any rational sense. It’s even worse – not only does it not make sense, it’s completely, utterly, off-the-scale, batshit doolally.
“Science” has been used by the unscrupulous, and the scientists have been complicit either through greed or cowardice.
It’s about making $£billions from taxpayers, all in the name of safety. Vaccines for all, whether you want or need them.
Excellent article about ‘Technocracy’. If you haven’t already read it, try Pseudopandemic by Iain Davis either on off-Guardian or his own website. It is a great complementary description of the forces combining to bring about the technocracy and how they need a fascist totalitarian regime.
They haven’t. They’ve outsourced to the globalist establishment
An excellent piece of writing, Dr Murphy, thank you.
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This is an excellent artical. Thank you Sinead.
Science has become so far from its origins. Richard Powers (the Overstory) observes
“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery”
And even more powerful from David Abram (The Spell of the Sensuous) –
“The whole universe of science is built upon the world as directly experienced …. We must begin by re-awakening the basic experience of the world, of which science is the second-order experience”.
Because we now live under medical Faucism