And in related news...
NRO notes that the biggest company in embryonic stem cells, Geron, has called it quits. No more ESC work.
Strongly parallel to the situation in "global warming".
In both cases the Establishment has been pushing a perfectly anti-scientific and perfectly genocidal
theory. Why? Because the Wall Street Mafia saw a way to make trillions of dollars from the theory and because a conspiracy of politicians and scientists saw a way to derive power and glory from the theory.
In both cases an unEstablished set of dissidents has tried to dislodge the bad idea by using logic, morality, and goodness. Total failure. You can't persuade an all-powerful apocalyptic cult to give up its wacked-out beliefs.
In both cases a Suicide Pact of Western countries strongly favors the evil theory, and pours all the resources of the West into following the evil theory straight down into chaos and oblivion.
In both cases a set of
sane non-Western countries, led by China, has been proceeding without the theory and
prospering. China doesn't give a flying fuck about theories or religions or morality; China only cares about what works.
China uses coal and nuclear power because they
work. China uses adult stem cells because they
work. In other words, China has a
perfectly scientific attitude, while the Western Suicide Pact is perfectly anti-scientific.
And finally:
In both cases the evil theory is now fading even inside the Western Suicide Pact, because we're dead broke. No more money for anything. The endless decades of self-flagellation, the long years of chopping ourselves to slivers in order to propitiate the Goddess of Death, have left us exhausted and penniless. Our Established Apocalyptic Genocidal Wackos still urgently need to sacrifice more of our own people to satisfy their infinite blood fetish, but
BLESSEDLY they can't fucking afford it any more!Whimper, not bang.
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Moral of the story: Nature always wins. When you work WITH Nature, you're more likely to succeed.
In
most cases the beliefs of old religions are closer to actual Nature than the new beliefs of egalitarians and "scientists". And in
most cases the prescriptions of Islam are closer to real Nature than the prescriptions of Christianity.
This also applies to behavioral matters like crime and education and economics.
When you try to solve crime with psychological theories based on equality, you'll fail. When you observe what actually changes the behavior of the criminal type, you'll succeed.
When you try to educate all kids in the same way, you'll fail. When you categorize them accurately and observe what works with each category, you'll succeed.
When you run an economy to maximize arbitrary numbers, you'll fail. When you run an economy to give normal people a chance of living a normal life, you'll succeed.
Ignore all theories. Always do experiments. Always try things to see what works.
Amazingly and surprisingly and contrary to all modern beliefs, when you do what works, you'll find that it works!