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Of the impossibility of truth, the limits of knowledge and the end of science in the #corona-crisis."
Marvelloues Twitter thread by Pace (
@theotherphilipp). It is 38 Teweets long but a few snippets:
Science does not serve the search for truth, but for knowledge that might approach the truth. Thereby their theses are at least
- honest,
- verifiable,
- and repeatable.
If only one of these principles is violated, it becomes a valueless end in itself.
Naturally the honesty of the politicians, scientists and media has been shown up starkly over the last 10 months. To be honest we knew before and have known
for decades but over the last 5 years in has been more overt, whether it be Brexit, Trump, Climate Change etc., it has become almost the norm to lie to get your way and belittle those that disagree. These days belittling means trying to 'cancel', sinister enough in itself but when coming from on high is really know something soon has to break.
Verifiability
The claim of a worldwide pandemic should be subject to the strictest possible degree of verifiability.
All the more so if one considers the inconceivably serious consequences that this will have for the people.
The opposite, however, has happened. An important indicator of the severity of an epidemic is the lethality of the disease. To assess this, the CFR/IFR is determined. Absolutely essential for this is a clear record of those who have died from a disease.
If verifiability already fails, repeatability is impossible. How can the CFR/IFR of a cohort be reliably verified in a repetitive manner if its determination is already unclear?
And how do they test anyway? Unknown. To date, there are no validatable standards for testing laboratories. Do they test for one, two or three loci, which ct-values do apply and for which genes? All more or less unclear. Every laboratory, every country does it differently.
Remember the centuries-old consensus of scientific work when pathetic journalists, power-hungry politicians and scientists driven by self-interest tell you something about the truth!
But the death of truthfulness, the fading away of the rational mind at record speed, and the end of scientific credibility, only we ourselves can prevent. By demanding it.
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