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Crystal clear elucidation of the replacement of
science 🔬
by "The Science" scientism 🙏✝️

Philosopher Matthew Crawford interviewed by @freddiesayers for @unherd . Matthew pretty much nails the entire faux expert and faux science phenomena.

Quotes of ✨brilliance✨ follow:

"Science has changed from a mode of inquiry to a form of authority that you are not allowed to question"

"We've seen this extraordinary extension of expert jurisdiction over every domain of life...it involves a delegitimizing of common sense as a guide to action."

"You can't really follow the science because science doesn't lead anywhere... it can't make the choices for us, and pretending otherwise is a way for decision makers to avoid responsibility for the choices they make on our behalf."

"It's the pride of science to be falsifiable - this is what distinguishes it from religion."

"The problem is when science is pressed into duty as authority, when you want to get people to behave a certain way, you have to express certainty. So science has to be transformed into something more like religion."

"The function of NGO's (e.g., Gates, Soros) is to convert the priorities of various oligarchs into political currency through the alchemy of expertise plus high moral posturing, which in combination is the catnip of cosmopolitan opinion."

"There's such a thing as a research cartel that is highly self protective and has to assert a monopoly of knowledge and also a moratorium on asking questions. When challenges are presented by an outsider these aren't met in kind, but with a denunciation..."

"...that way it is converted into a moral challenge between good people and bad people, as the challenger is said to be trafficking in misinformation."

"If you want to preserve the integrity of science, you have to limit this reflex of invoking it in a demagogic way for the sake of manipulating the population."

"What statesmanship is, is articulating things in a way that allows political contestation to happen rather than smother it under abstractions. That doesn't work anymore because it's so obvious what's going on and it just increases public rage."

"If you want to get people in the west to do something, the fear has to come from inside. So our means of social control is fear mongering- a prominent part of the business model of mass media. But that seems to be getting integrated into state functions in a sort of symbiosis."

Much more in the video, well worth watching!