IDEOLOGY over SCIENCE ~ how "scientists" have become "the priests" of the "new religion"

We live in a dystopia. The containment of SARS-CoV2 is being carried out not according to the EVIDENCE, but according to ideology, and results not in science, but pseudoscience, if not even an anti-science mentality, turning it into a new superstition, a false religion. Rather than taking care of those who are at serious risk: over 70, those with preconditions, where the disease can be very deadly, public health officials have locked up healthy people, closed the economy, and imposed draconian and dystopian controls over what is supposed to be a "free" society. 

Our leading Public Health Officials, are, in the majority not practicing science, but rather a warped sociology of science, which amounts to adhering to ideology. They have perverted science, and become the new "high priests" of a new "religion". 

Mario Bunge, the Argentine philosopher of science, in the article "A Critical Examination of the New Sociology of Science - Part 1 [Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 21, 524-560] put it this way: 

"scientific truth, whether total or partial, are supposed to be universal rather than the property of this or that group... if a view is only acceptable to the members of some social group, than it is ideological, not scientific. Even when an idea originates within a special group, it must be universalizable to count as scientific. Unless this criterion of scientificity is accepted, it becomes impossible to distinguish science from ideology, psuedoscience, or antiscience..." (Bunge, 1992, p. 51). 

An example of ideology at work, and not science, is Health Canada's arbitrary, claim of 2 meters for social distancing, versus the WHO's recommended 1 meters. Both figures cannot be correct. They both could be wrong, one could be right, but both cannot be right. 

Another example. We now know that children are not spreaders, and that SARS-CoV2 is LESS dangerous than Seasonal Influenza. This is not ideology, this is objective, universal fact. This is science. Certainly science is always skeptical and subject to revision and improvement, but science is built upon empirical facts, and not ideology. We also know, based on the EVIDENCE 

that the IFR for <60 years of age with no underlying conditions is the same as Seasonal Influenza. You begin to see how irrational and ideological this all is.

Schools have been closed and boarded up since March. But should they be? With the WHO claiming a IFR of 3.4% in the initial weeks one could argue that it was rational, but once new EVIDENCE emerged to the contrary, children should have been returned to school. By early May we had our answer in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Pediatrics), published on May 11, 2020:

Finally, it is important to emphasize that the overall burden of COVID-19 infection in children remains relatively low compared with seasonal influenza. As of April 28, 2020, the CDC report 8 deaths in children 14 years or younger related to COVID-19 infection, whereas there have so far been 169 influenza-related deaths in children 14 years or younger during the 2019-2020 season, with 81 of these occurring in 2020. (Shekerdemian et al., 2020, p. E5) 

Here we are over THREE months later and still the schools are closed in Canada, the USA, Britain and a number of other countries who have distinguished themselves with the most extreme ideological reactions. The more common sense Taiwanese, South Koreans, Swedes, Norwegians, Austrians, Dutch, Danes, and Finns ... have their schools open. NO spikes, no hospital capacity collapses. If you don't believe me, do a search. 

I strongly encourage you to carefully watch the following video to learn about the Pandemic and the response: 





As to how the WHO throws one of its own under the bus in the name of ideology and the "new religion" of psuedo-science, consider this: 

Contrary to the LIES from the Media acolytes of the "Priests" of the new "religion", DEATHS are NOT statistically spiking, though there are more infections. (Infections are actually good, as this is how herd immunity will be achieved). 






I end quoting the lyrics from Rush's 2112. The 1970s were a time when quite a number of artists were (perhaps because of the disaster of the Vietnam War) asking serious questions as to the dystopian future that was appearing. Sadly, the Catholic churchmen, rather than providing answers, were, and are themselves major players in building this unfolding, totalitarian dystopia.

We've taken care of everything

The words you hear, the songs you sing

The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes

It's one for all and all for one

We work together, common sons

Never need to wonder how or why

We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx

Our great computers fill the hallowed halls

We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx

All the gifts of life are held within our walls

Look around at this world we've made

Equality our stock in trade

Come and join the brotherhood of man

Oh what a nice, contented world

Let the banners be unfurled

Hold the red star proudly high in hand

We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx

Our great computers fill the hallowed halls

We are the priests of the temples of Syrinx

All the gifts of life are held within our walls

The 2112 suite can be listened to here, at Rush's official youtube channel. 

Fascinating how three Toronto "rockers": an Eastern Orthodox, a Jew, and a Protestant, could "get it". But our "Catholic" churchmen cannot "get it". I think there is a solution to this riddle. The churchmen actually DO get it, but unlike the questioning and intrepid "rockers", they WANT IT. They WANT to be "the priests of the temple", building the "brotherhood of man", and holding the "red star proudly high in hand".