Unsettling Science
If science isn't unsettling at times, it's not science.
Every day now since January 20, heads explode all over DC as the executive orders roll out and the insanity of whatever lurked behind “Joe Biden” gets systematically expunged from the order of things. And as this happens, the more plainly deranged the past four years looks.1
— James Howard Kunstler
I’ve been seeing another darling phrase of the elites for awhile now. I’m sure most of you have too.
“Settled Science.”
As if science is ever settled. It’s not. Good scientists are always open to new discoveries that may change their views about both minor and major theories. Good science can be very unsettling. It’s a simple concept, but one that totalitarian states do not like. They want to be the arbiters of “settled science” even if what is settled is not science. Their useful idiots like the arrangement because they don’t have do any thinking—they can simply read their scripts and collect their paychecks.
The howling and screeching we’re seeing in the confirmation hearings may be the death rattle of “settled science” and hopefully the same for liberals and progressives. Their script looks the same because, apparently, they have not realized that things have changed drastically: the legacy media is nearly dead and Sen. Maggie Hassan’s little tirade is being derided all over X along with many of her colleagues that thought it was a good idea to blatantly lie in front of a world that has access to genuine, informed fact-checkers in real time.
CONFIRM RFK JR!!!!!
Notes
Kunstler, James Howard, "Six Ways From Sunday," Jan 31, 2025, Source
Science is a process 😂, kinda the opposite of certainty, always open to questioning in order to provide more useful info at the time. So, yes, it’s a stupid statement
Truth in science is never final and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow.