Point-missing on "scientism"
An article at UncommonDescent:

Seventy-five years ago, C.S. Lewis published his novel ”That Hideous Strength,” which explored the dangers of government in the name of science. What relevance does Lewis’s advice on the promise and perils of science-based public policy have in the age of COVID-19 and beyond?

Lewis was worried that politicians would become the puppets of scientists.

The problem is exactly backwards.

Start with the proper definition of science:

Using careful measurement and careful experimentation to solve real problems.

Governments have ALWAYS used proper science in many ways. Engineers who build sewers and roads have been an intrinsic part of government for thousands of years. Metrologists and astronomers who determine correct weights and measures and calendars have been part of government for thousands of years. Engineers have been designing weapons for thousands of years, usually with 'spinoffs' to civilian products.

The problem is that governments are no longer using VALID science.

Governments are FLIPPING and CORRUPTING entire fields of science, then using the FAKE numbers and results to do what government wants to do anyway. Obliterate civilization and kill everyone.

And this isn't new either. For thousands of years governments have been corrupting astronomy by asking astronomers to bless the latest battle plan. Corrupt astronomers assured the king publicly that his soldiers would win because the stars were aligned for victory. The assurance made it easier to recruit cannon fodder and steal the gold to finance the totally unnecessary war.

Later the honest astronomers managed to clean out their guild, purging the corrupt astronomers who became astrologers and priests.

Corrupt doctors were at the core of the totally unnecessary and murderous French and American revolutions. Locke and Marat and Sade and Guillotin were doctors.

In modern times the first flip was "social" "science", psychology and psychiatry. Both started serving tyranny in the 1920s, and became key elements of CIA/NSA Deepstate after 1946.

The second flip was climatologists, who had been honestly serving the government since 1880. In 1975 CIA flipped them to "global warming", paying them to create a fake emergency so government can ruin civilization and kill everyone.

The 2008 bank coup flipped economics upside down, but this wasn't harmful to real science. Paid economists were ALWAYS corrupt. There was never an honest discipline of economics, because there's no NEED for an honest discipline of economics. Bookkeepers are honest, and bookkeeping is all you need to run a real economy. You don't need ANY theories.

And now the entire field of medicine and public health has been flipped. As I've been saying, public health was more like engineering until March 2020. Public health officers used proper experience and real knowledge to improve sanitation, assist immunity, and control travel and immigration when an epidemic was underway. Now the Public Death Officers are requiring travel, eliminating sanitation, destroying immunity, and obliterating life.

As I've also been saying, this flip shows us that Public Health Officers weren't really needed. Before they flipped, they weren't serving a useful purpose. Competent governments and businesses knew how to keep things clean, though the previous "climate" emergency often blocked normal sanitation and ventilation. Vaccines were a mature discipline, mainly in the hands of commercial pharma, not needing advice from public health.

Parkinson as always. A discipline that loses its purpose turns to crime.

The flip of regular Medical Doctors to Murder Doctors doesn't fall neatly into the Parkinson category. Real doctors are needed for a few things, but they have been expanding their legal authority into areas where they don't belong since 2010. Central Death Command (CDC) has been using regular doctors to conduct political surveillance on issues like guns and sexual harassment. The doctors willingly joined the tyrants.

As I've also ALSO been saying, we need to do for all of science what the astronomers did to the astrologers.

EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS.

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Later note: I was uninformed on the history of astrology. It wasn't that simple! Government-sponsored astrologers were corrupt, but most of them were trying honestly to predict weather and events, and they were on the right track.

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