Thread by @DavidHundeyin

The science I grew up learning was a boring, reliable, opinion-free, globally constant entity. Pi was 3.14 whether you lived in Beruit or London or Bulawayo.

Now we have celebrity scientists eho hold contradictory positions and people who say things like "Trust the science."🤷🏿‍♂️

I grew up learning that science existed to be constantly challenged, and scientific fact could only be established using the "scientific method" as against consensus and "because I said so."

Maybe the rules have changed since then, I don't know.

Apparently, there is no longer any such thing as universal scientific fact in this COVID era. Now there are just widely varying opinions which are all supposed to have value because the holders wear white lab coats.

Nothing is true anymore. Nothing is a lie.

"COVID-19 is harmless." "COVID-19 can liquefy your organs and melt your brain."

"Masks reduce transmission by 80%." "Masks are useless placebos."

All are apparently statements of fact supported by white lab coats with many alphabets after their names.

All I see is nonsense.

Science is now acting like a religion with a white-coated clergy class and a terrified laity class jumping through whatever hoops the clergy comes up with every week.

Two directly contradictory positions cannot be true at the same time. At least one of them must be false.

When all this is eventually over, the entire global entity called 'science' will need to fundamentally reexamine how it moved from universal consistency to a series of personality cults in our lifetime.

Because humanity desperately needs actual science, not yet another religion.

This is an example of what I mean. Scientifically, this is absolute nonsense, akin to saying that God put dinosaur fossils on earth to test your faith.

But this is an atheist saying this, and this is becoming a "scientific" consensus.

This is a religion!

https://twitter.com/Matt_Dillahunty/status/1465461373387870209?t=2JvUugYDStpHgFPU40QNLA&s=19