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Time for an independent voice for science : Comments
By Julian Cribb, published 12/4/2011Australian governments have been slowly strangling science and it is time the victim stood up for itself.
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>So how could it be done with true independence from government, or from the vest interests of its funders in general?
I can't ever be done independently of the vested interests who fund it.
The best that we can hope for is that it is funded voluntarily, and that in making things better for those who fund it, it makes things better for society in general. But that cannot be done by government funding.
You are only exemplifying the view I described: the idea that human beings are a form of noxious pest, a plague, a cancer, and that science should be an instrument of government to implement all restrictions on people's freedoms that such a world-view aspires to, as if people were bacteria in a laboratory flask controlled by "scientists". It's a grotesque vision which hopes for total control of society by government, to be planned by the presumptive selflessness and wisdom of technicians - all for the greater good of course. It is an anti-human view, that human use of natural resources is morally bad, and so therefore is human freedom and families and enjoyment, all of which require the use of natural resources.
Yet even its own advocates decry the incompetence and corruption of governments. It is an unfalsifiable view that's *not* based in science, it's based on fifth-hand Malthusian and Marxian nonsense that just keeps popping up, despite of all rational disproof, in the halls of *government-funded* academe which is absolutely drenched in the *unscientific* superstition that we would all be better off if government centrally directed the lands, the waters, the seas, the sky, the clouds, all primary industry, all secondary industry, all tertiary industry, and families, and childcare, and education, and transport, and housing, and interst rates, and communications, and problem gamblers, and personal relationships, and sexuality, and you name it.
It is a credulous, ascetic, irrational, freedom-hating, tyrannical orthodoxy; to appeal to it in the name of science is truly perverse.