Climate change and the COVID fiasco have revealed that the official, approved Science is nothing more than propaganda. From Mark Keenan at lewrockwell.com:
For most of modern history, science meant freedom to question. Today, that freedom is vanishing. Across universities, journals, and digital platforms, critics argue that dissenting scientists are being erased from public discourse. Two issues have revealed this transformation more clearly than any others: climate change and Covid-19.
In both cases, complex debates were reduced to slogans — “the science is settled,” “trust the experts,” “follow the science.” But in reality, “the science” became a brand — one owned by governments, corporations, and media institutions whose financial and political interests depend on consensus, not discovery. What was once a process of questioning has been replaced by a culture of obedience. And for those who refuse to conform, the punishment is swift: censorship, professional exile, and public shaming.
Science, at its best, is self-correcting. It thrives on challenge, replication, and revision. Yet the modern scientific establishment — heavily dependent on state and corporate funding — now treats questioning as subversion.
When I worked within the climate bureaucracy — first at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, and later as a technical expert for United Nations Environment — I saw how scientific uncertainty was quietly managed. The incentive was always the same: simplify the message, exaggerate the threat, suppress the doubts.
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