Science has shot itself in the foot by pedaling narratives detached from scientific reality. Ideological science behind “climate change” and Covid have been pushed aside by the public who rightly do not believe the scientists anymore.
One never likes to admit that his profession includes charlatans and ideological zealots. I have a bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and already from my days in high school I have worked in chemical and biochemical laboratories. My late father was a professor of medicinal chemistry and his father began to study chemistry in Nuremberg until he was drafted into the German army in World War I. Science has been an outsized part of my life, and for this reason, it is painful to see some scientists bend, twist, and destroy scientific norms in order to reach ideologically-driven conclusions. I am happy to see that people can see through the smoke and don’t buy the specious arguments any longer. I don’t know what the long-term effects of science being turned into science fiction will be, but trust once lost is hard to reestablish.
While Teslas and other electric cars are often sleek, comfortable and veritable repositories of engineering genius, their existence and the push to buy them is ultimately based on the premise that human-generated climate change is a threat to our world. As I have written previously, the US Department of Energy clearly states that most carbon dioxide generation comes from nature and not from human activity. Still, governmental officials and others warn the masses that driving an SUV, flying to visit grandma, or making a barbecue will eventually cause island nations to disappear and New York to become one big water park. Without global warming, now climate change, (see recent California blizzards as the reason for the name change) being the official position of Science, there would be virtually no market for electric vehicles (EVs). EV maker Rivian has been losing $30,000 a vehicle, and many such cars are affordable only with rebates and other incentives not given to the buyers of gasoline-powered cars. But even with all of the scare tactics, people are not rushing to buy EVs. The still-high price, the question of charging time, and the fear of running out of power are keeping people away. Some of the recent headlines from the the EV world:
-"Hertz will sell all of its 20,000 car EV fleet."
-"Ford, Volvo and others have cut EV production by 50% and may cut further."
-"Apple has given up on its multi-billion dollar self-driving vehicle project which obviously was based on an EV vehicle."
-"Teslas in Chicago could not be charged during an extreme cold snap."
-"Electric vehicles are still catching fire via their massive lithium batteries and require enormous amounts of water to extinguish."
-"Much of the supercharger
-"EVs take a long time to charge and people have to plan their trips with extended charging stops included."
-"Many dealerships do not want EV cars as they tend to move more slowly."
-"EV emissions are worse for the environment than those of gas-powered cars."
If the people truly believed the science as advertised, then they would be buying EVs faster than car manufacturers could produce them. But the opposite is true. People doubt the scientific scare tactics that are ultimately behind the push to get rid of gasoline cars and are simply not interested in EVs in the numbers that President Biden and others imagined only a few years back. People are voting with their feet and they want their feet on a regular gas pedal and brake controlling a gasoline or hybrid car. Scientists, by playing fast and loose with the data and threatening apocalyptic events that never seem to come true, have lost the people and their wallets.
The second casualty of scientific razzle-dazzle is Covid. We were told that it came from pangolins but it seemed quite amazing that the worldwide pandemic that killed over 7 million people started in the same city in which China had a virus institute over which the US had had some serious safety concerns. It was forbidden to suggest that the virus with its never-seen-before-in-nature RNA sequence may have been the product of Chinese experiments. The fact that no animal was ever found with the human-like virus and that the first people sick worked at the institute finally broke the official scientific narrative that the virus somehow came from nature. The Chinese engineered it, the US apparently helped pay for it, and Chinese failures in good laboratory practice led to a world crisis the magnitude of which has not been seen since World War 2. Supply chains, children’s education, and inflation still have not recovered from the pandemic and the official response.
Every additional aspect of the pandemic was equally at odds with the official position of our scientific gatekeepers. Tony Fauci recently admitted that he has no idea where the six foot/2 meter distancing rule came from. He wrote in an email that masks would not help but later demanded that everyone wear such masks all of the time. The vaccines touted by governmental officials and pharmaceutical executives are still a mystery as to how effective they really were. Many were sickened, others died from the shots, and at one point, most of those who died of Covid were actually vaccinated.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. has made a strong case for pharmaceutical companies and governmental officials intentionally sidelining potential treatments touted by various doctors in order to allow for the emergency usage of the experimental mRNA vaccines. If true, it is a horrible indictment of the doctors and scientists in whom the public had invested its trust. One example he brings is chloroquine, a cheap and safe drug used for decades as an antimalarial agent. Fauci and his boss Francis Collins declared the drug ineffective for Covid and had 66 million available
Science, when practiced honestly, can be both beautiful and beneficial. Think of all of the discoveries and improvements in your own life, from new drugs to faster and safer air travel, from mini-computers in your hand to safer food. You can appreciate how much the scientific method can offer in making our lives better and richer. But one rule for science is that one’s opinions and views must be left outside the lab door. One has to dispassionately follow the data. Once a scientist has a predetermined outcome in mind—such as humans causing irreversible climate change or Covid having to have originated in the Wuhan wet market—then he is no longer a scientist but an ideological enforcer using science to advance his worldview. People are tired of frauds in white lab coats. The damage they have done is immeasurable, yet they feel no remorse or guilt over lying or misleading the public. The weak EV market and the refusal to get a booster or mask up show that people have had enough Their behavior reflects Lincoln’s admonition: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”