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| Lysenko making a pledge. Joe listening in the background. |
Apparently, UNESCO wants all the good people (TM) to "take a pledge" in support of science. When a pro-pledge article was published in IEEE Spectrum magazine (link below), all 26 comments were uniformly negative, forcing the poor editors to shut down the discussion thread! Since IEEE is a pro-science org for engineers, I assume that the average reader of their magazine isn´t a firm believer in the existence of, say, retro-engineered UFOs at Area 51, feng shui or haunted houses. So how come *everyone* who commented opposed the idea of a "pledge" to science? Why indeed...
Note also that the pledge has the bizarre name "Trust Science" (and Big Brother?) and will be promoted on "The International Day of Light"! Geezus, and I don´t mean the carpenter!
Apparently, somebody already signed the pledge with the joke name "Thali Domide", and there is probably a "Trofim Lysenko" and "Torquemada" waiting in the wings, too. This per JMG´s blogs.
Personally, I pledge myself to believe in the following propositions:
- Fusion power doesn´t work.
- The Earth is a globe.
- There is a replication crisis in science.
- Heliocentrism is a thing.
- There are only two biological sexes.
- Evolution is true. Humans are related to chimps.
- Trump didn´t collude with the Russians.
- BLM is a front for the Dems and Antifa does exist.
- Joe Biden is senile.
- Freud was a crank, Jung a raving lunatic. "Psycho, analyze thyself".
- There really is a Caucasoid race.
- The Caucasoid race comprises Europeans, Jews, Arabs, Pakistanis, Gypsies and Ethiopians.
- Moses didn´t write no Bible.
- Jesus didn´t write no Bible.
- Buddha didn´t write no Pali Canon.
- Muhammad *did* write the Quran (not Allah).
- Scythians were matriarchal.
- Scythians were crazy warriors of Aryan stock.
- "Pidgins" are legitimate languages.
- The noble savage never existed.
- The West abolished slavery.
- Kunta Kinte isn´t a real person.
- High cultures have existed in Africa.
- COVID is a serious threat.
- Lockdowns haven´t stopped COVID.
- Man-made climate change is real.
- The Earth is overpopulated.
Funny how science constantly transcends the political divides in contemporary America. Almost as if it told us something objective about the world or something...
Here is the text of the Trust Science Pledge:
ReplyDelete“Trust in evidence-based, scientific facts is essential for providing sustainable solutions to today’s challenges. By adding my name to this declaration and pledge, I recognize the key role that scientific research and discovery play in improving quality of life for all.”
Which is, of course, true. It´s also true that we need a lasting peace and people´s democracy. I mean, who would disagree?
There is also an Australoid race.
ReplyDeleteOK, I had some fun and added some new stuff to the list.
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