One thing which has this blogger seething is the expression 'it's been scientifically proven', trotted out by laymen as some sort of clinching argument in any dispute, thereby elevating the 'scientist' to the status of an oracle, almost a god in himself.People just don't get the big picture, do they?
Science is simply an attempt by fallible, albeit well-read, humans to increasingly accurately explain natural phenomena, just as philosophers try to explain that which is beyond their ken. And every twenty years a new theory comes out and we all smile at an inviolable Stephen Hawking type truth now debunked.
What is vastly more worrying though is the attitude of science's empirical practitioners and their sycophantic worshippers the MSM. Here is an example from today's BBC:
A genetically-modified (GM) strain of malaria-resistant mosquito has been created that is better able to survive than disease-carrying insects and carries a gene that prevents infection by the malaria parasite.
One strategy for controlling the disease is to introduce the GM insects into wild populations in the hope that they will take over. The scientists also inserted the gene for green fluorescent protein (GFP) into the transgenic mosquitoes which made their eyes glow green.
Oh brilliant. In the interests of malaria control and nothing more, swarms of virtually indestructable mutant mosquitoes with glowing green eyes are going to be released into the ecosphere and as details of the work by the US team which came up with this cunning idea appear in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" journal, then that's all right then, isn't it? If they say it's safe, it must be so, right?
Except there's no mention of further mutations now that the natural balance has been disturbed, no study of ecosystem ripple effects, no thought whatsoever beyond how clever these blinkered bozos have been. Skynet here we come. Imhotep can now be unleashed.
The article goes on to mention 'modified mosquitoes' and that should also sound alarm bells in any rational mind - as if mosquitoes are some sort of personal stereo or new kitchen cabinet. This is the scientific community in a nutshell - the cold, dispassionate, impersonal reduction of living beings to components which can be experimented on, regardles of pain and suffering.
This 'insertion' of the green pigment into the mosquito. Think for a second about the process involved and the Josef Mengele minds of the people doing it. And the way the BBC has embraced the cleverness, with the downside barely given column millimetres - the magnificent, illumined, humanistic perfection of Man's infinite capacity.
Man can do absolutely everything, he understands all and as a god unto himself, he feels he has the inalienable right to do as he deems to anyone or anything within his escalating grasp and consequences be damned - cleverness is vastly more admirable than integrity, after all.
Man is infallible and his high priests, the Scientists, are demanding their sacrifices.
You would think they/we would have learned from past experience: whether it's introducing bunnies or myxamatosis, we screw up our world.
ReplyDeleteJames: I don't know on this one (certainly not yet), but I wonder if you read this article on the precautionary principle?
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Liz, we never learn. Nigel, just followed your link now and read it. It's a very good post and I'll answer it in the next day or so. You make a good case, dear sir.
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