What will Repair the Huge Reputation Damage of Science?
Making Sense of Science after Covid destroyed its legacy
If humanity really wanted to, we could solve cancer within a week with our science.
The bear on the road is 21st-century science itself.
It has become an open marketplace, competing with each other for the biggest sponsor, the No.1 paper, the best breakthrough.
The result: a biased short term vision focused on first trial success while ignoring possible long term harm. Or anything that’s bad for business. This has led to huge misinformation of us, the people.
And even more dangerous: Science is lying to itself.
It has completely lost its root of sincere questioning itself for the sake of truth. The open-sourced improving humanity model. When humanity starts censoring Nobel price winners, we know we’re in big trouble.
Science has become weaponized knowledge to improve the bank accounts of men in white jackets. Marketplace science is by definition biased in a predatory capitalist arena.
These are three real possible threats from science having a huge problem with itself.
And solutions to move forward.
Scientists building the reputation of science
The institution of science has brought us great gifts and miracles.
Good faith science is at the base of real innovation which changes the daily lives of people. Even better, real science changed the way we see and understand the world around us.
Newton's contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy and chemistry helped usher in the Scientific Revolution.
Marie Curie discovered Polonium and Radium laying the foundation for nuclear power and medical scans. She paid a price. She died of a disease related to an overload of radiation.
Charles Darwin came up with a new evolutionary theory, saying that changes in humanity are driven purely by environmental factors, instead of divine intervention. Today, we call this natural selection. It became the base for economic theories birthing capitalism.
Tesla’s legacy turns our lights on. Say no more.
Galileo made us look different at the cosmos. He found proof for the theories of Polish astronomer Copernicus (1473–1543), who had launched the Scientific Revolution with his sun-centred solar system model.
I didn’t even mention Einstein. And dozen of other kick-ass scientists that have been undoubtedly also great humans with ethical awareness.
They have built the reputation of the institution of science for over centuries.
A reputation that has been destroyed in the course of only 2 years.
Problem 1: Science has become God
In a world where science can do what God does, science has become a religion
That’s a huge issue since most religions don’t question themselves really.
Science playing God means the outcome of knowledge also has bigger than life consequences. Think CRISPR gene-editing tech invading our cells and DNA, or what about mRNA tech based on science?
God didn’t need a trial and error phase. But because we’re still human, we do.
Or is humanity the trial and error period?
Well, it's mostly the error period. Have a look around, we pretty much screwed up on all levels.
Still, science has the audacity to misinform us that the next breakthrough will be the game-changer. No, the next, Or maybe, the next. And this is going on for decades. We should have been flying around in free energy pods with loads of free time and robots doing our shitty jobs.
Science is misusing our faith.
That’s dangerous. That’s science playing God while losing every sense of reality.
Science shouldn't be a religion. Religions spread fear, they divide and eventually cause war.
Problem 2: Science started to misuse our trust
During the last 2 years, the Institution of science that has brought us so many great things has started to slowly implode. Why?
It isn’t living up to its reputation for the sole reason it doesn’t question itself anymore in a neutral, unbiased way.
But it gets worse from here.
Small groups of scientists started advising corrupted governments while having financial incentives to do so. I mean, come on. The figurehead here is Dr. Fauci. But there are dozens more.
Now, suddenly science led to a very diminishing worldview mostly based on fear and its conclusions led to the violation of human rights while humanity got forced to trust the science.
Meanwhile, other scientists testing and challenging the views of their colleagues got cancelled, their reputable careers destroyed, their voices censored.
This has eroded our trust in science as much as it has in our Governments, beyond repair I would say since it involved millions of lives and our freedom and basic rights.
Science shouldn’t f*ck with humanity, it's here to help us.
Problem 3: Science has lost its ethical framework
Many scientists have regretted their inventions when they saw it got misused in the hands of bad faith people with dollar signs flashing in their eyes.
Here is just a small example. The inventor of pepper spray regretted his invention when he saw police forces harming people with it.
Here comes a slightly bigger one:
The atomic bomb.
This is what the father of the atomic bomb, Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer, said when he witnessed the mushroom after the first test in 1945:
“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad-Gita,” he said. “‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ — Oppenheimer after witnessing the first test of the atomic bomb
Even more interesting, Oppenheimer got blacklisted for opposing the H-bomb.
Fast forward to 2021.
Robert Malone, providing much of the science behind the widely bespoke Save and Effective M-RNA vaccines, got blacklisted doubting his own invention when in the hands of wrong people.
Meaning, people that completely lost any ethical direction or moral guidelines. We call them sociopaths.
16.000 colleagues agree with him. Their voices are lost in a desert of social media censorship and a one rule fits all science with no room for questioning.
Welcome to science Anno 2022.
Will CRISPR and M-RNA be the end of science?
Fast forward to CRISPR gene-editing science leading to Biotech, leading to change in DNA that can’t be reversed.
Welcome to a universe where men tries to play God.
The first CRISPR tech experiment done on humans are the famous designer babies by Chinese scientist He Jiankui.
The problem?
He didn’t tell the world, he didn’t get permission. He will be released from jail this year. In this video, He Hankui explains to the world he believes his act is noble. As Oppenheimer’s intentions were noble. I believe both men.
He Jankui isn’t the problem. The issue is groundbreaking science in the wrong hands. And underlying: How to bind science with the potential to bring humanity a 21st century Frankenstein?
The issue is that Within 5 years, CRISPR CAS-9 tech will be widely available.
Every nerdy Frankenstein scientist can set up a hard to trace lab and gene-edit the hack they want funded by sociopath despot leaders dreaming of an army of super humans.
Exponential growing science feeds exponential growing tech and this will lead to civilization collapse.
Unless we learn from the past and do this instead…
A possible solution
I have a strong gist that it's not science that’s gonna save us.
It’s our attitude towards science.
First of all, we should dethrone science as religion. Religions have already left a bad taste in the mouth of humanity. We’re hungry and thirsty for unity, not division. Unity, neutrality and honesty will give back science its reputation
We should decouple money from science. And fire a lot of people in high places.
The pandemic has revealed the real working of science and how it misused its build-up reputation by doubtful actors advising Governments while having financial incentives to do so. The result is a massive distrust in medical science.
This should be forbidden when the lives of millions are at stake.
First and foremost, the solution is becoming better humans by putting ethical non-money driven non-perverse incentives first.
And realizing we aren’t gods.
We don't have the same wisdom and love. There should always remain a gap between how we perceive the world through science and how the real God has intended it.
This will also bring back magic to our lives.
Gratitude for the miracle of live should prevent us from becoming knowledge greedy.
To speak in the words of Galileo when he discovered the cosmos:
“I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things,” — Galileo
That’s the attitude to return to.
Lucien Lecarme