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| MICHAEL B. KENNEDY'S PRODUCTIVE YEARS? |
THE MESSAGE:
The 'scientific method' is nothing but a piece of rhetoric. It is not a direct reflection of the ways scientists work. Rhetoric helps to shape perception, manage the flow of resources and authority, and make certain kinds of actions or beliefs possible or impossible.
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A list of modern-day keywords include “family,” “race,” “freedom,” and “science.” Such words are familiar, repeated again and again until it seems that everyone must know what they mean. At the same time, these keywords merely scratch the surface of the concepts, and their meanings become full of confusion, disorder, variation, and contradiction.
THE BLURB:
WHY I HATE SCIENCE
Millions of taxpayer dollars are given out as grants to Universities to fund 'scientific research.' I believe that these grant recipients form an informal alliance and support the proposed projects of other studies by other groups in the name of 'SCIENCE'.
Max Planck, was a theoretical physicist. In 1918 he won a Nobel Prize for his contribution to the understanding of the smallest known particles of matter and energy. Today he probably would make use of Hillary's brain.
The Trudeau government announced $900 million in research grants recently, doling out the money in a series of co-ordinated back-to-school announcements designed to remind voters that the Liberal brand stands for science and economic growth.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his Science Minister Kirsty Duncan, "Support for science is an essential pillar in our strategy to create sustainable economic growth and support and grow the middle class.” More than 350 projects worth over $2 billion have been funded in Duncan’s name.
PSEUDO SCIENTIST SUZUKI.
Schmoozooky says we need to consume less, buy less and use less fossil fuels. Meanwhile he lives on Vancouver’s elite Point Grey Road, on a double lot, overlooking English Bay, right above the exclusive Kitsilano Yacht Club. The City of Vancouver assesses this land value alone at over $8 million. He has another million-dollar home in Vancouver and another home on Quadra Island. Suzuki co-owns a Nelson Island property with an oil company, Kootenay Oil Distributors Ltd.
Oh crap I forgot which finger to use!
One of his corporations, the David Suzuki Foundation, took in $9 million last year and has $12 million in assets. More than 10 million of that is invested in stocks and bonds. Suzuki, while railing against lobbyists, has nine paid lobbyists registered in Ottawa’s lobbyist registry.
JOHN OLIVER
HBO CANADA's "Last Week Tonight." is a late-night series with the British comic John Oliver. His reviews, on the happenings over the past seven days in news, politics and current events, are funny, revealing and satirical.
Is science bullshit?” he asks “No, but there is a lot of bullshit currently masquerading as science.” And thus began his twenty-minute take-down of crappy scientific studies and the way they’re presented.
IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY AND PRESTIGE.
Sadly, the truth is that money and ambition tend to trump reality and objectivity at every step of the research process. To get tenure, funding, and maintain their prestigious positions, researchers are under constant pressure to publish their results in the best journals. Those journals want only important, interesting findings, which means that researchers have every motivation to find crazy cool things, regardless of how much bullshit might be required to get there
Just to be clear: It's not that you should suddenly stop trusting science in general -- without science it would be impossible to distinguish charlatans from people who have actual wizard powers. But there's a big difference between accepting scientific consensus and just blindly believing everything said by a guy in a white lab coat.
A SHOCKING AMOUNT OF MEDICAL RESEARCH IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT
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Medical scientists tell us to eat less meat, or more fiber, or have sex with fewer drainpipes. But then, why do so many health-food crazes seem to disappear as quickly as they arrived? Why do we still not know whether vitamin C can help cure your cold? Up to 90 percent of such studies are critically flawed in some way or another. That's why all the stories about "promising new research" tend to come and go with the speed of quantum particles smashing around inside a jug of orange juice.
THE QUESTION:
Is research science worth all the money spent on it or would it be better spent on community co-operation and tolerance mechanics?
THE LEMON:
To Michael Byron Kennedy for kinda looking like Suzuki
THE QUOTE:
"IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, SEND YOUR RESULTS TO THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE."-Me
THE CLIP:
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