Philo and Sophia

Science, Certanties and Stereotypes

by Ian R Thorpe.

The left are always quick to accuse their opponents of stereotyping but when it comes to embracing certainties and applying stereotypes there is no political group more guilty than the left, which includes the supporters of politicised science and the militant atheists for stereotyping their opponents as a way to suppress views opposed to their own.

Science, Certanties and Stereotypes

by Ian R Thorpe

‘Nothing is safe that does not show it can bear discussion and publicity’ – Lord Acton

Whenever a sensible, level headed criticism of the academic orthodoxy is made on certain blog and comment threads the person expressing scepticism is usually turned on by a howling mob of science worshippers and called a right wing nut job or a religious fanatic who is afraid of the truth. It is not just conservatives who shy away from science, those who are trying (though they deny it) to turn science into a religion are alienating many politically non aligned and even left wing people who take a broader view of philosophical questions.

The lefties (or 'progressive liberals' as these illiberal, intolerant, authoritarian people like like to call themselves to disguise their shameless authoritarianism) stereotype of a conservative is someone who dislikes and mistrusts "science because they are to stupid and fearful of progress to understand it. Utter bollocks of course but if lerfties believe something that proves it is right, (in their view at least).

In America and increasingly in Britain anyone who challenges "science" particularly the pseudo science of global warming and the fantasy science of particle physics and the Higgs Boson, are glibly dismissed as religious fundamentalists creationists. This attitude is not only stupid and almost Nazi in its political aspect, it is unscientific too. So we can forget all the propaganda about "the science is settled" and theories being "proved" by mathematical experiments that use made up data. Even some leading scientists are starting to see the danger of those fanatics who are busy trying to turn science into a religion.

In his latest work You Can’t Read This Book, about modern censorship, Nick Cohen recalls how Richard Dawkins once described the principles of the scientific method, in a surprisingly honest and revealing passage. Prof Dawkins recalled:

“I do remember one formative influence in my undergraduate life. There was an elderly professor in my department who had been passionately keen on a particular theory for, oh! a number of years! And one day a visiting American researcher came and he completely and utterly disproved our old man’s hypothesis. The old man strode to the front, shook his hand and said, my dear fellow, I wish to thank you! I have been wrong these 15 years!

“And we all clapped our hands raw! That was the scientific ideal. Of somebody who had a lot, a lifetime almost, invested in a particular theory and he was rejoicing that he had been shown wrong and that scientific truth had been advanced.”

That, of course, is the theory of scientific method. Alas in practice it does not often happen quite like that.

In recent years, we cannot be sure exactly when it began, another scientific method has emerged, one which has no problem insisting 'the science is settled' or presenting theories as facts because in the absence of empirical evidence it is possible to 'prove' these theories by mathematical speculation. Certain theories have become dogmas, Big Bang theory for example. Some scientists including Albert Einstein who referred to his own work in theoretical physics as "thought experiments," has been given Messianic status; dare to question Einstein's mathematical speculations and you are denounced by The Science Inquisition as a heretic.

Not all scientists agree with this however. There are many who question Big Bang and propose other ideas, a universe perpetually renewing itself bit by bit for example, or one rather whacky theory I like for its whackiness but give little credence to, that we live in a designer universe created by a process engineered by a race not unlike ourselves. Ideas should not have to conform to the dogmas of a synthetic religion in order to be interesting. Life is enriched by such ideas as they give birth to discussion. As the quotation at the head of this article points out, those who try to suppress free discussion are not interested in scientific inquiry, but only in control freakery.

Wacky ideas ought to be part of the science method but increasingly they are being suppressed by the quasi religious fanaticism of the mainstream, that is the politically correct, left wing internationalist cabal that has hi jacked and politicised scientific research. The guy who dreamed up the designer universe idea, John Gribbin is a serious physicist who says that the science is never settled and we should be open minded enough to consider all possibilities.

On BBC's Radio 4 early morning news magazine Today in January 2012 there was a report on a study by Dr Gijsbert Stoet about “stereotype threat”.

Stereotype threat, if you’re unaware of it, is the idea that there are fewer women than men at the top of the maths and science profession because they are put off by the perception that men are better. In other words, if people tell you you're bad at something, you'll perform badly.

Studies showing that women's underachievement in maths is due to their own poor self-image are fundamentally flawed, according to psychologists Dr Stoet, from the University of Leeds, and Professor David Geary from the University of Missouri. Their findings suggest that recent strategies aimed at improving girls' performance in maths – which are based on these studies – are misguided and unlikely to work.

The most important thing to be learned from this work and hundreds of other studies on similar themes is that a) the BBC presenter expressed emotions bordering on shock about the conclusion and b) that the the dubiousness of this orthodox 'scientific' view, which is something of a deus ex machina for those wishing to explain away sexual differences and the failures of “gender”-based feminist thinking, was not highlighted long ago. The standard politically correct / soft Marxist view of male domination was easily embraced by militant feminists who were being told what they wanted to hear and by limp wristed metrosexual men who wanted to display their feminine side.

Social differences explain a lot. We only have to compare the status of women in Sweden and Saudi Arabia to understand that, but the idea that there is no biological aspect to male and female brain difference has only been maintained because it was made a quasi -religious dogma, sort of liberal creationism. Creationists ignore the evidence of evolution because they think a godless, Darwinian world would lead us to brutality and inhumanity, an idea that spread around the US following World War One; liberal intellectuals think that (partial) biological explanations for social injustice would lead to more injustice and would be used as an excuse for more injustice. That may be true, science, like religion will always be exploited by bad people but it makes no difference to the science worshippers whether it is true or not, it suits their narrative and so they demand that everybody believes it. People who express dissenting views are suppressed.

The most famous example of the witch hunt tactics employed by The Science Inquisition was the case of Larry Summers, who had to step down as President of Harvard in 2006 after daring to suggest that the domination of men in the science could be partly explained by “variability of aptitude”; that is to say there are more men at the extreme ends of scientific ability, while women tend to dominate the centre.

MIT molecular biologist and fanatical feminist Nancy Hopkins was in the audience and felt disgusted by Summers’s comments. She later wrote: "I felt I was going to be sick. My heart was pounding and my breath was shallow… I just couldn't because this kind of bias makes me physically ill." She added that had she not fled the room "I would've either blacked out or thrown up". Now can you imagine the sneering and insults that would be thrown by Sciencology cultists at a Christian who reported having such a reaction to Richard Dawkins denouncing God and religion. Many people commented that Hopkins' behaviour, assuming her report was not an attention seeking exaggeration, simply reinforced the sterotype of women as being ruled by emotions, prone to hysteria and not fitted to carry a lot of responsibility.

Summers may have been right or wrong, but whether or not his comments are offensive and make someone sick is irrelevant to how right or wrong he is. The most offensive idea in the history of the world is the one that men are descended from monkeys ... yet the scientific method suggests it is still true. The rise of creationism may be, as Dawkins suggests, a woeful and depressing step backward for humanity, but it is not just conservatives who shy away from science. More and more people are coming to the view that science combined with militant atheism has taken on many characteristics of a very unpleasant kind of religious fanaticism.

A repetition of Ms Hopkins irrational and emotionally unstable behaviour was observed at the UK Liberal Democrat Party conference last year. Chris Huhne, Energy Minister in the coalition government and a fanatical campaigner for wind farms and against a sensible energy policy had been forced to concede that the Greeenies beloved 'renewables' were proving 'disappointing' and in order to be able to meet energy needs Britain would have to build new nuclear power stations. As he spoke there were several feminist activists (or fat, ugly lezzas as we call them in Britain) in the front row crying hysterically at the notion of building nuclear power plants. And these are the people who claim they have a monopoly of rational behaviour.

It is gobsmackingly obvious to everybody except Marxist scientists and self righteous Politically Correct loons that there are differences between men and women. One is in ambition and as the sciencologists are so keen on evolution one would expect them to recognize this has an evolutionary basis. In the Paleolithic and Mesolithoc ages (old and middle stone age) before agriculture began, the primitive communities ordered their lives so that the men hunted and the women stayed near the settlement, gathered roots,seeds, nuts, leaves and fruit, looked after the children, tanned the hides of animals their men killed and ensured the survival of the tribe.

There were many reasons for this. It made sense for men to lead the hunt (in some tribes, it is thought, some women joined in) because they were bigger and stronger, men were better strategists and made more successful hunters because they took more risks, not having their role as mother to constrain them. Risk taking was rewarded because the most successful hunters were accorded the highest status. Therefore men became competitive while women became cooperative because it was to their advantage to help each other, to collaborate on tasks and to take joint responsibility for children. This led to an orphaned child becoming the daughter or son of all the women in the community as the communal survival urge kicked in.

The main reason men did the hunting was not about men being naturally ambitious and competitive. Though life was a dally struggle for survival in the stone ages, hunting was by far the most high risk activity. Hunters either became very good at their job or died young, and it was better for men to die young, men were dispensable. Thus the ambition and competitiveness came out of evolution and are as natural to human males as horns to a bull.

Think it through, a healthy young man can father hundreds of children a year, a woman can only bear at most once child a year throughout her child bearing years. Given the group survival imperative already mentioned it is clear women were more important than men, they were the ones who bore the children. Our ancestors spent a few million years evolving to a point where humans lived in strong, warm shelters, had adequate food supplies and were able to store surpluses, developed medicine and all the other advantages of civilisation, a process which began about 25,000 years ago according to archaeoligists.. And a few million years of evolution cannot be overruled by passing politically correct resolutions. Now last time I used this analogy I was attacked viciously by 'progressive liberals' for suggesting that those egalitarian, politically correct cavemen could be so callous discriminatory. Let's see what happens this time.

The most difficult thing to understand about the evolutionists and their politically correct ideology is while they throw a hissy fit if anybody defends religious thinking they have no problem deluding themselves that primitive humans lived peacefully together in a world where they could sit around singing Kumbiya and debating whether they were being unreasonable in not respecting the rights of Sabre Toothed Tigers to eat them, where there was no hunger and no conflict, the lion lay down with the lamb and the earth gave forth of its own bounty.

It all sounds like The Garden of Eden. Which the 'progressive liberals' being fanatical atheists will tell you has never existed.

*BTW don't get the wrong idea from my final paragraph. Then as now the lion often did lie down with the lamb ... after first making sure the lamb was tucked up snug and safe in its stomach.

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Asinine Eurocrats Want To Waste More Of Our Money
On reading the news about the Bureaucrats of Brussels, those smug, smooth faced spawn of a pox whore's scab lice who control our distiny and their demand for a budget increase of twice the official inflation rate after ...

Meanwhile As Punters Suffer Brussels Bureaucrats Throw Away Money As If It Is Infected
European Commission bureaucrats have squandered millions of pounds on bizarre projects that provide little or no benefit to member states, it has been revealed. Wasteful schemes include spending £20m on building three ports in Spain and Italy that remain unused four years after their completion and sending a ‘blogging donkey’ equipped with a solar panel and a video camera around Europe as part of ...

The Demon Stagflation Is On The Loose
The Credit Crunch is stil crunching European economies and the savings and pension funds of individuals.Demand for housing loans has falled 70pc in Portugal, 44pc in Italy, and 42pc in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2012. Enterprise loans fell 38pc in Italy. This puts a rather different perspective on the UL Labour Party's outraged squealing about our economy contracting one fifth of one per cent over the last ...

Mathematics and Reality
In all of our blogs and web sites the Greenteeth team have been critical of those science fans who are turning science into a religion. Scientists deny this of course even in the face of the evidence. Here Ian R Thorpe shows you that the idea of mathematics as God is nothing new, it has been around longer than Christianity in fact.

Cameron Gazes Into The Abyss
At Prime Minister's questioin time today David Cameron was given a threashing the like of which he had not experienced since he was at his very posh school, and he did not enjoy it. After less than 10 minutes of suffering "the slings and arrows of outraged MPs from members of his own and opposition parties, the Prime Minister looked like a pit bull with piles. The Leverson inquiry ...

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The Question That Wob't Go Away: Who Is Barack Obama?
So now Chris Matthews isn’t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday—or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his decision to run for president—a biographical pamphlet circulated by his literary agents described him as having been “born in Kenya” has been setting the world of ...

How The Grexit May Make Things Worse In Greece
It looks more likely that Greece will crash out of the euro. But if it attempts to return to the drachma, there's a pretty big problem, which no one's really come up with a way to fix. The printers at De La Rue or its rivals are, according to reports, preparing to run off some new Greek banknotes ...

Is America Really A Post White Nation or Is This Writer Spouting Typical Progressive Claptrap When is a majority less than a majority? Answer: when the minority is bigger. This is what has just happened in the US: births to the white majority in America fell in the first six months of last year to just 49.6 per cent of the total, meaning that Caucasians, as they are quaintly known, may within the next 30 years become an endangered species.Given America’s boast that it is a land of ...

The New Reactionaries by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media
About fifteen years ago, many liberals began to self-identify as progressives—partly because of the implosion of the Great Society and the Reagan reaction that had tarnished the liberal brand and left it as something akin to “permissive” or “naïve,” partly because “progressive” was supposedly ...

Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study
Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures.

I Promise You The President Has A Big Stick says vice president
Vice President Joe Biden went after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a campaign address at New York University, questioning the former Massachusetts governor’s chops on foreign policy. And, he was there to try to prop up his boss’ credentials ....

Minimum Alcohol Pricing Shambles by Dick Puddlecote
You have to wonder if UK politicians who have been promoting minimum alcohol pricing might have been a bit pissed when they made the decision to go for it. Consider this response to a parliamentary question tabled by a UKIP member of the House of Lords ...

Asinine bureaucrats
I shared Gildas’ rage yesterday; he fared better than I, he was actually able to articulate his rage. PMQs left me quite speechless and I abandoned the effort to write.PMQs has become a monotonously unfolding pantomime of ...

A Spectacular Devaluation But no Recovery In Sight
The sterling effective exchange rate is one reason why the UK has recorded the highest inflation rate of any advanced economy. With the onset of the crisis, the Bank of England allowed sterling to depreciate dramatically ...

Salt Tax Again
Salt is now the same as tobacco. Soon there will never be a heart attack again, anywhere in the world, and the drones will live in morose greyness for all eternity. Well, I like tobacco, but I won’t die if I can’t get any. It’s a fun part of life ...

Obama Message Booed ~ In Massachusetts (by Allahpundit)
Well, it stands to reason. Massachusetts is a deep red state. Wait, what?
I held off blogging this yesterday in hopes that video would emerge but after almost 24 hours I’ve given up hope. It started when Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom tweeted: ...

The second front - the new fear and panic tactic to replace AGW
Apr 22, 2012 Greens If the struggle to put climatology back on a scientific footing were not bad enough, the UN has just set up a new intergovernmental body, which will push biodiversity as the new excuse to "scare 'n' tax".

Inequality: a middle-class obsession by Daniel Ben-Ami
Unlike past warriors for equality, today’s campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and ‘trailer trash’.

Executive Order 13547: “The Sleeping Power Grab” (by Erika Johnsen)
To be fair, President Obama’s executive-order output hasn’t unreasonably outpaced that of his predecessors – his especial willingness to actively circumvent Congress and snatch huge gobs of power for the federal bureaucracy only makes it feel like he has. In July of 2010, President Obama signed executive order 13547 – “Stewardship of ...

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