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2020-07-12 -PC Follies

Why We Can’t Trust Anything ‘The Science’ Says Any More

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Posted by Fred 2020-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 There is a Hebrew saying that can be translated as "When the fish is going bad, it always starts with the head." Ours [Western] is a declining civilization - obviously, the Arts & the Sciences will be the first to go.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 03:35|| 2020-07-12 03:35|| Front Page Top

#2 “The fish rots from the head.” I thought it was a Russian saying, but really any fish-eating society must have something like it.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-12 08:21|| 2020-07-12 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Possibly it migrated to Hebrew from Russian (after migrating to Russian from Yiddish)

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 08:28|| 2020-07-12 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Others suggest Turkey. I'm going with ancient Mesoptomainia.

Posted by Bertie Dribble2546 2020-07-12 10:29|| 2020-07-12 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Once Science became openly political, they are no more credible that any other marketing/propaganda organization.

Posted by 49 Pan 2020-07-12 12:44|| 2020-07-12 12:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Science went political w hen it became mainly extortion funded i.e. bureaucrat directed money extorted from taxpayers with any benefits mostly accruing to a small group of connected taxpayers.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-12 14:21|| 2020-07-12 14:21|| Front Page Top

#7 ^It's just a way to collect rents.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-12 14:40|| 2020-07-12 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I think calling the current economy "Capitalist" with the current progressive taxes on incomes and subsidies and tax loopholes on the things that a capitalist would tax (i.e. title) is probably one of the biggest lies currently going around.

There exists an enormous welfare state for the wealthy... I just wonder what they're blowing it all on.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-12 16:07|| 2020-07-12 16:07|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Totally agree. "Capitalism", "free enterprise", "free market"...not here, that's for sure!

Posted by Clem 2020-07-12 16:13|| 2020-07-12 16:13|| Front Page Top

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