A class action lawsuit would be one avenue to explore as these ideological zealots override true scientific inquiry for political objectives. This is part of a disturbing trend where expertise is cloaked in a Fauciesque "I am the science" mindset. The politicization of science on all levels has the capacity to facillitate an unchecked au…
A class action lawsuit would be one avenue to explore as these ideological zealots override true scientific inquiry for political objectives. This is part of a disturbing trend where expertise is cloaked in a Fauciesque "I am the science" mindset. The politicization of science on all levels has the capacity to facillitate an unchecked authoritarianism as CS Lewis has observed:
"“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
A class action lawsuit would be one avenue to explore as these ideological zealots override true scientific inquiry for political objectives. This is part of a disturbing trend where expertise is cloaked in a Fauciesque "I am the science" mindset. The politicization of science on all levels has the capacity to facillitate an unchecked authoritarianism as CS Lewis has observed:
"“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
I love that quote. One of the greatest writers of modern times.
And the approval of the victims.
Woah, that’s deep - ‘...tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims’.
Brilliant post