Ruphus -> RE: If you like an archaeologic whodunnit (Dec. 4 2017 6:30:54)
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In relation to overall amount of scientists the corrupt part of theirs must be small. The fraction of lesser educated / lesser talented ones must be much, much larger than the fraction of intentionally distorting ones. (Just think of physicians who pass exam through learning by heart / or those who do not update during career, or the incredible number who even do not understand enough basics to not routinely prescribe antibiotics for virus inflicted cases.) However, that small number of corrupted scientists causes disproportional damage, for them typically being engaged at industrial or industrially sponsored spots where they receive all the publicity and 'credibility' they need. From an investigative press series about pharmaceutically ignited hysteria, I remember that it took merely the bribing of 6 physicians to get the whole international cholesterol campaign rolling, -that has still not faded out after all those decades. And I suppose that it won´t take more than one or two dozen of opportune white coats to organize most blatant of nonsense like said creationist BS. Propaganda is an asymmetric condition. A handful claims & figures from powerful source can effectively outweigh billions of countering cases of evidence to the contrary. -Which brings us back to the relevance of education and media, and how essential it is to have no monopoly and general agenda in that realm. Still, the sensitivity on freedom of press (whether within the branch itself or among common sense) is going downhill, instead of further up the trail in ways it was in a temporary period until ~30 years ago. On top of informative media bundling, the original condition of the internet as alternative and network of diverse sources has been turned into domain of three major corporations / losing the informative uniqueness that had made it / ought to make it an outstanding resource. There is a dramatic dichotomy between exploding factual knowledge and channeling of resource going on. Indicated on all kind of levels. Just look at the current state of international affairs maturity. It has fallen way behind the level maintained even during Cold War. Displaying primary irrationality, unpredictability and impulsivity that could potentially blow us back to times of Untermassfeld^. Having said that, ... if only fellow creature wasn´t eliminated, personally I could see advantages to such earthy state, compared to current commodities under inhumane autocracy. Better primitive humanity than advanced state of paradox insanity. A true pity to think of given up scientific and technological blessings, yet better without as long as them being misused for caste society and its pedestal of social desert. Last night in a discussing between a philosopher and the blue-eyed superficiality of a writer, I heard the author mentioning "threats like the insoluble issue of automatization in the world of work". How much brainwash did it take for to entirely adapt spoon-fed exploiter´s logic according to which automatization can only mean unemployment, incapable of seeing the congruent obvious? Automatization under sane conditions means relief of labor in the first place. Hence many positions corresponding to modernity, with jobs of very little working hours yet sufficient to ample income provided through machine work. All it takes to allow congruency to come through, is doing away with sponges that drain off hundreds and thousands of times worth employee´s salary. A common sense which can instead only envision unemployment, has not just seen the emperor's new clothes but fully put them on, like sheep before the slaughterhouse. May future archaeologic aliens be puzzled about the cuts on their digged up bones. Even just decades ago, had you unrolled today´s contradictory intellectual development in informative times, it would had left me dumb folded. Backwards instead of forwards?! Yeah, it can be had.
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