{"id":62870,"date":"2017-04-27T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62870"},"modified":"2017-04-26T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:59:36","slug":"blinded-by-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62870","title":{"rendered":"Blinded By “Science”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sort of cringed when I watched the “Science March” – because “Science” is being dragged down the same Orwellian linguistic rathole that has claimed so many other once-useful\/meaningful words.<\/p>\n

At one point, science meant “You have a theory. \u00a0You frame a hypothesis. \u00a0You come up with experiments\u00a0that can disprove\u00a0<\/em>the hypothesis. \u00a0You publish the theory, the hypothesis, the experiments, and the results, with an aim toward allowing other scientists to check your work and see if your results could be repeated.<\/p>\n

Today? \u00a0It’s just another word for peer pressure (from the left).<\/p>\n

Ben Shapiro on the appearance of the loathsome Bill Nye at the marches<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But this is demonstrative of the Left\u2019s take on science: Science is actually just the name for anything the Left likes. Worried about the humanity of an unborn child? Concerned that fetuses have their own blood types and their own DNA? Stop it! You\u2019re quoting science, not Science\u2122! Wondering how it is that a genetic male is actually a woman? You\u2019re worrying about science, not Science\u2122!<\/p>\n

This is the dirty little secret of the Left\u2019s sudden embrace of Science\u2122 \u2014 it\u2019s not science they support, but religion. They support that which they believe but cannot prove and do not care about proving. Bill Nye isn\u2019t interested in a scientific debate about global warming \u2014 how much is occurring, the measurement techniques at issue, the sensitivity of the climate to carbon emissions, the range of factors that affect the climate. He wants you to accept his version of the truth \u2014 not just that global warming is happening, but that massive government intervention is necessary in order to avert imminent global catastrophe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Worse? \u00a0This is just one front in the battle for something more important than science – the battle for the language itself.<\/p>\n

And the good guys are losing that one, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sort of cringed when I watched the “Science March” – because “Science” is being dragged down the same Orwellian linguistic rathole that has claimed so many other once-useful\/meaningful words. At one point, science meant “You have a theory. \u00a0You frame a hypothesis. \u00a0You come up with experiments\u00a0that can disprove\u00a0the hypothesis. \u00a0You publish the theory, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,61,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-for-the-language","category-global-warmingcoolingchange","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62871,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62870\/revisions\/62871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}