Sunday, February 6, 2022

Science Should Not be Used For Public Policy

Anothony Fauci head of the NIH, has said that arguing with him is arguing with science. While many berated him for being so ritious, the fact is in many cases he was right. Now he has also admittedly lied, such a when he said that masks were unnecessary to prevent the spread of Covet 19. He explained later this was to stop people from hoarding N95 masks, which he felt were better utilized by hospital workers than scum citizens they were forced to treat. He also said the BLM demonstrations we're not the Covet super spreaders they turned out to be, based solely on his progressive political views (many have stated this was the point where they started to to doubt government policies on Covet, as they were apparently based solely on the political postering of Liberal Progressive s. However, one could argue that at many times Fauci could point to some scientific study to back up his claim that he is following the science; and there lies the problem (the fact is science is always changing, because it a mechanism of proving hypothesis wrong). Science is a process, not a gauge or judge of the ligitimacy of public policy. And while Fauci may be following the science, science by definition needs be open to all possibilities and be defined as open debates and free discussions at all levels, or it is simply religious dogma. Since Dr Fauci had made a career of shutting down any dissenting view point other than his official position, he has simply become an anti-science autocratic.

The point here is there are just as many scientists and peer reviewed scientific studies that are counter to what Fauci and the progressive left are claiming is they only true science. Not only has Fauci declared his science is better, he has actually conspired to discredit esteemed and highly regarded scientists in the immunology and vaccine fields; this certainly shows he has abandoned science in the name of progressive politics. Many forget Fauci falsely claimed AIDS was a hetrosexually spread disease and he discredited was is now one of the primary treatments for AIDS related pneumonia. The question has to be asked why does a government scientist have more credibility than a non-government scientists with similar or more expertise? And should we give government scientist the power to discredit and ridicule non-government scientists that disagree with them; something always the case with past authoritarian governments.

What appears to be the reasoning behind all this unscientific rhetoric, is the powers that be behind the Biden administration, went all in, that vaccines would stop the Covet 19 epidemic. In doing so, they ignored, outlawed and ridiculed any alternte stradegy. As mentioned prior to Covet 19, the normal medical procedure was to pretreat diseases with various protocols, and then agressively treat the symptoms of the disease when symptoms first appears. However with Covid, patients are told the only pretreatment are vaccines, and if symptoms appear, to go home and wait for the symptoms to become so serious, they require hospitalization. Then, once in the hospital, many Covid patients were put on ventilators and drugged with opiates, where they usually wasted away and died. The reasoning again is if you go all in on vaccines, you can't have any other factors complicating the approach; this includes for the first time in medical history, ignoring naturally aquired immunity, which interestingly is the basis for vaccines. The Biden administration and the progressive left media did not want any alternate belief system, other than this is an epidemic of the unvaccinated; in other words as said by both President Biden and the progressive left media, get the jab and your protected, period. Any other information, facts or opinions, regardless of the source had to be banned, censored and/or ridiculed. The reasoning being there could only be one truth, because people are too gulable and not intelligent enough to make this decision based on any other information that was available. It is the Case Sunstein "Nudge Principle" on steroids.

Of course, Fauci and the Biden administration now have a problem; the new mRNA vaccines don't prevent being infected by Covet, not do they stop the spread; at best they reduce severity of the symptoms if you are infected. This has led Biden to pretty much abrogate federal responsibility (although interestingly not federal authority), when he stated that the Covid epidemic could not be stopped at the federal level. 

All this harkens back to my original point; science should never be used for the bases of public/governmental policy. For one thing it is too compartmentalized and can be oppressively authoritarian as it ignores the consequences of poorly thought out policies such as quarantining the healthy which destroyed the lives of millions and led to more deaths from depression (suicides and drug overdoses) and economic destruction that revered 50 years of gains against poverty. There is a reason we have elected officials and not autocrats ruling our nation, and it's time we realize that many of our elected officials (who are often seen ignoring the mandates they have forced on the populace) have abrogated their responsibilities by claiming they are following the science, when in actuality they are are simply grasping onto a rationality for authoritarianism without accepting any responsibility for their actions.