Begin reading at the section heading “your sciencing is wrong.”
Pixy Misa at Ace’s place accepts it all at face value, and presents the excerpts as revealing mind-boggled wokeness — as if the writers can’t see the flaws in their presentation. For example:
Most fundamentally, the groups we studied believe that science is a process, and not an institution.
After more than 40 years in the tech world — long before things got as crazy as today — I recommend being more understanding of the pressures on employees.
So I invite you all to see the publication as similar to the Morse Coded blinks of a POW at a “news” conference.
Surely this is indicative of what our best minds at almost all institutions must suffer under today. It’s a good guess that they await the rebellion like so many others. Any one situation may become so tense that a lightning strike could set it off, triggering a chain reaction. Nobody knows the day or time.
The word usage and sentence structure are a giveaway that the article is written for members of their own socio-political group. The stilted language making it difficult to understand by anyone outside their academic circle often lapses into many of the inadequacies their ‘anti-maskers’ warn against (e.g. bias, lack of transparency). The absence of questioning the orthodoxy by the authors is the strongest evidence they entered the project with a lack of scientific rigour.
Because I’ve engaged with a few of college age in the last 5 years, I acknowledge that point as being too likely.
But recall how O’Brien revealed he knew more than Winston although both knowingly engaged in Doublethink. The former did it for power (thoroughly enjoyed torturing his victims), the latter hated the trap he found it put him in. To end it he risked going to O’Brien. Readers know how it turned out.
Sure, viewing the authors as ignorant, programmed automatons is the simplest explanation. But in any such group there will be among the proles both Winstons and Karens. My take, even if mistaken, reflects my sympathy for the Winstons — and for all who see but do nothing — who direly need aid from a higher power to defeat the O’Briens.
Science for years has born a striking resemblance to the Catholic church circa 1517. It’s high priests pontificating doctrine and labeling anyone who disagrees as heretics. And just like the Church of that era, salvation won’t come, unless it comes from within. The field of Science, like all our institutions, is being battered by wave after wave of wokeism and leftist ideology.
In the words of Martin Luther “Peace if possible, truth at all costs”
Maybe a better analogy would be Constantine’s making Christianity the religion of the Empire. Once it took over, anything such as individual salvation not okayed by him became a capital crime. Any testimonial of faith that was not deemed as serving the state — like individual scientists actually employing the scientific method — is not permitted. Martin Luther’s challenge of Rome was the first shot at that arrangement between church and state. We are a long way from the next reformation in that Scientism is only now establishing as our state religion.
Scientism may in fact already be our state religion and religious tests are commonplace — but neither factor is officially declared because of that pesky clause in the Constitution. De facto, not yet de jure.