I can see not trusting the FBI — who does — but censoring the American Heart Association?
/Stephen Green:
Science, we’ve been told countless times, is a process that must be respected, particularly regarding the groundbreaking new mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Let me back up a moment.
In Early 21st Century/Mid-Weimar/Late-Roman America, we actually have two sciences.
Traditional science is the one we all learned about in school. It’s really nothing more than a process — using hypothesis, data collection, theory, repeated testing, repeatable results, and peer review — to eliminate, as much as is possible, human error from our investigations into how the universe works.
Science isn’t perfect, nor is it easy. It isn’t meant to be. Each new discovery carries the “risk” of invalidating something previously believed to be fact.
Then there’s Science™.
Science™ isn’t a process for doing much of anything. Science™ is a set of immutable beliefs, ranging from the efficacy of wearing masks outdoors to the total safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines.
Science™ is not to be tested, reviewed, or even publicly questioned.
Science™ is a species of gnostic knowledge known but to a few, usually named Anthony “Doctor” Fauci, our nation’s most celebrated medical spokesmodel.
To attack Fauci, He Himself has told us, is to attack Science™.
One can’t be allowed to commit such heresy, not in a free country like Early 21st Century/Mid-Weimar/Late-Roman America.
Not even on that useless, time-wasting, 24-7 digital shouting match called Twitter.
Heresies will not be tolerated. Heretics must be silenced.
The latest example is none other than that radical anti-science organization… er, anti-Science™ organization… the American Heart Association.
Twitter has decided that those AHA know-nothings shouldn’t be allowed to frighten the unwashed with news of a study showing that mRNA vaccines increase the risk of developing heart diseases from 11% to 25%.
And so forth. Read the entire article for full details, if you care to sully your otherwise-calm Saturday morning.