Author: Doug Santo

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Human children as pestilence to be sniffed out…

Experts rip California pilot program testing COVID-sniffing dogs on schoolchildren

Life among Democrats.

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Trans ideology is an ideology of the mentally disturbed. It is not to be celebrated. Those who suffer from it should be helped to recover.

TEEN BOY WHO IDENTIFIES AS TRANS BRAWLS WITH GIRLS, EXPOSES GENITALS AT CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOL

 

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Woke “science” is not science. It is cult religion.

The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit

“…Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union’s height…

…Until a few months ago, we’d never heard of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a peer-reviewed publication whose aim is to promote “free inquiry on controversial topics.” Our research typically didn’t fit that description. We finally learned of the journal’s existence, however, when we tried to publish a commentary about how modern science is being compromised by a de-emphasis on merit. Apparently, what was once anodyne and unobjectionable is now contentious and outré, even in the hard sciences.

Merit isn’t much in vogue anywhere these days. We’ve seen this in the trend among scientists to judge scientific research by its adherence to dominant progressive orthodoxies and in the growing reluctance of our institutions to hire and fund scientists based on their ability to propose and conduct exciting projects. Our intent was to defend established and effective practices of judging science based on its merit alone.

Yet as we shopped our work to various scientific publications, we found no takers—except one. Evidently our ideas were politically unpalatable. It turns out the only place you can publish once-standard conclusions these days is in a journal committed to heterodoxy.

The crux of our argument is simple: Science that doesn’t prioritize merit doesn’t work, and substituting ideological dogma for quality is a shortcut to disaster. A prime example is Lysenkoism—the incursion of Marxist ideology into Soviet and Chinese agriculture in the mid-20th century. Beginning in the 1930s, the U.S.S.R. started to enforce the untenable theories of Trofim Lysenko, a charlatan Russian agronomist who rejected, among other things, the existence of standard genetic inheritance. As scientists dissented—rejecting Lysenko’s claims for lack of evidence—they were fired or sent to the gulag. Implementation of his theories in Soviet and, later, Chinese agriculture led to famines and the starvation of millions. Russian biology still hasn’t recovered.

Yet a wholesale and unhealthy incursion of ideology into science is occurring again—this time in the West. We see it in progressives’ claim that scientific truths are malleable and subjective, similar to Lysenko’s insistence that genetics was Western “pseudoscience” with no place in progressive Soviet agriculture. We see it when scientific truths—say, the binary nature of sex—are either denied or distorted because they’re politically repugnant.

We see it as well in activists’ calls to “decolonize” scientific fields, to reduce the influence of what’s called “Western science” and adopt indigenous “ways of knowing.” No doubt different cultures have different ways of interpreting natural processes—sometimes invoking myth and legend—and this variation should be valued as an important aspect of sociology and anthropology. But these “ways of knowing” aren’t coequal to modern science, and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise.

In some ways this new species of Lysenkoism is more pernicious than the old, because it affects all science—chemistry, physics, life sciences, medicine and math—not merely biology and agriculture. The government isn’t the only entity pushing it, either. “Progressive” scientists promote it, too, along with professional societies, funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health and Energy Department, scientific journals and university administrators. When applying for openings as a university scientist today, job candidates may well be evaluated more by their record of supporting “social justice” than by their scientific achievements..”

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RFK Jr. He’s a serious man, not a kook.

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Democrats race to be first to insanity…

New York legislators set to ban natural gas hookups in new buildings

Virtue signaling and fantasy cult beliefs are more important than the health and well being of citizens.

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Minnesota Bill Could Make Pedophiles A Protected Class

California to ban diesel rigs while New York takes aim at gas stoves

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ABC News knows what’s best for you to see and hear. They’ll censor speech for you.

ABC News cuts RFK Jr’s COVID-19 vaccine remarks from interview

Full Interview:

Our media is garbage. ABC censored political speech from a man running for president.

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This is normal…

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Love this headline…

Egypt Tells Netflix Cleopatra Wasn’t Black: ‘Blatant Historical Fallacy’

The Democrat cult of race. Most of the world just laughs.

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Simon Ateba does actual journalism. Lefties hate him for it.

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Crackpot. Pure crackpot. These people are in a cult.

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Heh!

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“I will sign a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 States.” – President Donald J. Trump

We need him back.

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Commentary on Tucker Carlson…

“…Bongino and Carlson, one source said, “were considered the two most likely to say ‘fuck you’ to management,” a network insider said, adding that Bongino “gave zero fucks, and Tucker gave even less fucks.”…

…“I think this has less to do with Trump and DeSantis and more to do with people like Mitch McConnell and John Thune,” this source said. “The change in the programming will be that if there’s some sort of controversial bill moving on Capitol Hill, Tucker would often use his show to try to kill it. That sort of stuff won’t be going on anymore. I just think the network and the programming will be dumber, rah rah Republicans. Milquetoast content. It’s a reversion to what Fox was. The Tucker era at Fox was a deviation from the norm at Fox.”…”

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Intentional destruction of our economy and way of life. Democrats, this is who they are. This is going to save the planet from some nonsense doom. Many Democrats are in a cult.

CALIFORNIA TO REQUIRE ‘ZERO EMISSIONS’ PASSENGER TRAINS AFTER 2030, FREIGHT AFTER 2035

Doug Santo