I just saw Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled: no intelligence allowed"
over at the $1 theater and it was a great piece of work. Namely those
promoting the dogma of establishment science. This is a subject near
and dear to my heart upon which I have been known to post here
repeatedly, but it always bears bringing the subject up one more
time.
Although this film is on the subject of publishing papers on
"intelligent design" and the attacks upon one career that occur if
such transgressions against establishment dogma are even suggested let
alone advocated, the same actions can be equally seen if one chooses
to discuss a whole host of "anti-establishment" topics. I leave it as
an exercise for the interested student to make a list of topics upon
which any attempt to publish credible research will be a fast track to
the unemployment line.
The attacks always take the same form. The author is accused of
"pseudoscience". The authors find that grants and support dry up.
Papers are rejected. Jobs suddenly become unavailable. You get fired.
You get denied tenure and not for the normal reasons like being a
woman or not willing to grovel before the tenured faculty. Attacks
often extend to being accused of mental illness or incompetence.
So what is going on? I'll tell you. The problem, dear reader, is YOU!
You are simply too smart and too perceptive to be allowed free reign
in a world ruled by mass politics. You can too easily see through the
myriad political scams designed to keep those who rule, in power and
rich! Hence, a way had to be found to control you and keep you in
line! And what is that way? It's the "university" system that has been
developed along with "peer review" and government and other
"controlled" funding of research that makes sure that certain topics
and certain ideas are never given free and open discussion. You ALL
know this is true. But most of you can't say a thing though because
unlike me, you still have a career in science that can be lost.
This documentary is especially interesting to me in that it pulls very
few punches. It makes the connection between communist doctrine and
establishment dogma. It makes the connection, for example between
Hitler's death camps for the disabled and other "defectives" and the
American "Eugenics" research at Cold Harbor (which by the way, changed
its name but still exists) that Hitler was so taken with. It points
out the connection between atheism (the state religion of leftist
regimes) and Darwinism. And best of all it shows the draconian
punishment awaiting any research who steps even a little bit out of
line! Yes, Virginia they WILL "make an example of you" if you drift
even a little bit into a "forbidden zone"!
All of you out there, listen to me. If you are just the least bit
interested in REAL science, this documentary is required viewing. It
should soon be out on DVD so go steal a copy from a friend or if you
must, rent it from Blockbuster. Your first lesson in science boys and
girls is that science is NOT the pure exercise of intellect and free
inquiry you thought it was. It is about making sure that aspects of
knowledge that threaten the power of the elite stay tightly
"controlled". There is POLITICS right down at the core of modern
science and sorry to say, politics operates best with lies. And it's
high time you all learned how this politics works whether you choose
to join in the lies or work to eliminate them.
Ok. Now all you with the GS rating can start posting the suggestion
that I go look for my "tinfoil hat". Of course you haven't viewed this
movie and never will, but I'm sure you are nevertheless convinced that
it's all "pseudoscience", lies and right wing Christian tripe. [All
perpetrated by the well-known right wing Christian evangelist Ben
Stein!
]
Our profession is in dire need of a good housecleaning! I say this
documentary is one good step in the right direction.
