Science must remain uncorrupted by agendas and funding to uphold its fundamental principle of objectivity.
The Scientific Method relies on unbiased observations, experimentation, and data analysis to arrive at reliable conclusions. When agendas and funding sources influence scientific research, the objectivity of the findings are almost always compromised, leading to biased or distorted results.
The Scientific Method generally goes as follows.
- Observation
- Research
- Hypothesis
- Experiment
- Data Collection
- Analysis
- Conclusion
- Present findings
- Peer Review
- Replication
Climate change science and virology, for example, almost never fulfil the above criteria.
John Ioannidis, a physician and researcher at Stanford University, has done many studies that analyse the peer review process. In his 2005 paper titled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, he shows that the majority of all peer-reviewed science is inaccurate, misleading or outright junk.
Richard Horton, of The Lancet, said the following.
The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness
And Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), said the following.
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.
As biochemist David Rasnick has said multiple times, science died in the 80s.
It’s become like a cult.
There is a hierarchical structure with “experts” at the top who hold the authority and dispense knowledge, to their followers, from their peer reviewed holy texts whose findings are treated as unquestionable truths.
Scientists, like cult leaders, hold significant influence over the perception of reality.
John O’Sullivan is the CEO of Principia-Scientific and co-author of Slaying the Virus and Vaccine Dragon.
