Anti-Science Viruses

My reaction was as one might expect. When I heard this story I had to laugh. This narrow minded response appeared so utterly silly. But then, many years later, it happened again. I was told by a friend in response to a controversy over a scientific discovery that I was wrong and he was right, because he believed himself to be a superior thinker. Rather than focusing any imperative in principle, he said essentially, "What I perceive is truth. What I perceive is science. Anything contrary to what I perceive is philosophy, not science. Its mere opinion; your opinion; - case closed!" I was shocked.

Here, reality was judged arbitrarily without any regard to truth or principle. My friend evidently never heard about the hypothesis of the higher hypothesis. He argued from essentially the same platform that a person might have argued from during the age when the earth was believed to be flat and to be the center of the universe, except in those days the argument would have reflected a certain visual reality, even though it was falsely interpreted.

While my friend's arguments, like that of the flatlander, were not malicious, and were sincerely based on an honest perception, they represent an attitude that has become common in modern society, and which has become conveniently exploited for political objectives that are indeed malicious by intend. One of these is the Global Warming ideology which pretends to be based on science and truth, but isn't. Whoever dares to counter this ideology will receive about the same kind of rejection that I received from my friend. There will be no regard for demonstrated facts or underlying principles. Actually the scientific community has received this type of rejection time and time again, in response to its protest against the Global Warming mythology based on real scientific evidence.

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