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    Scientists usually have to face the fact and get it right but only after much harm is done by their emotional and political biases in the interim.

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    Scientists usually have to face the fact and get it right but only after much harm is done by their emotional and political biases in the interim.

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    Scientists Fallability

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    Excerpt from A Troublesome Inheritance, Genes, Race and Human History,
    Nicholas Wade, Penguin Press, 2014
    Two lessons to be drawn. One is that scientists, despite their training to
    be objective observers, are as fallible as anyone else when their emotions
    or politics are involved. Whether they come from the right or from the left.
    [He points out elsewhere that today the vast majority of scientists are
    coming from the left.]
    A second is that, despite the personal failings of some [most] scientists,
    science as a knowledge-generating system does tend to correct itself,
    though often only after considerable delay [decades or more]. It is during
    these delay periods that great harm can be caused by those who use
    uncorrected scientific findings to propagate injurious policies.
    Engineers have to understand science to do their jobs; designing solutions to real
    world problems that actually work. However, engineers who dont produce
    competitive real world solutions to difficult problems dont make it in their
    profession. Scientists, as the quote above reminds us are often biased and have a
    go with the herd mentality. Why, because their livelihoods to a great extent
    depend on toeing the elites party line. Oh, scientists eventually get it right
    when a Newton, or a Galileo, or an Einstein comes along and proves their original
    majority supported scientific facts to be balderdash. The elites handing out the
    grants get the scientific conclusions they desire or they dont give out the
    grants. Engineers dont get grants they get paid for problem solving. The
    discipline enforced on them makes them much better problem solvers and much,
    much, much more objective in their observations of the real world.
    The damage that Wade mentions during the period from biased (untrue) scientific
    beliefs to eventually realizing that the real data simply does not support their
    tenets, is a period where immense damage can be done to society. That is,
    expending valuable resources on programs that are not based on sound science is
    something we simply cant afford. This, no matter who wants to get rich or gain
    more power using the flawed science to create false crisis after false crisis. It is
    time for the electorate to wake up and smell the coffee because there is too
    much power and wealth at stake for the political and elite class to play fair.
    A perfect example is the current Climate Change pseudo crisis. It is based on
    science as flawed as the early twentieth century genetics science that led to
    injuries to far too many innocent victims. The climate model used to create the
    dire predictions that justify the draconian actions they want to take is trash. It
    doesnt agree with the current data on atmospheric temperatures by hundreds of
    degrees centigrade. If they made the model conform to current reality the dire
    predictions for the future would go away. Of course, they wont do that so the
    drumbeat continues.

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