Toby, for those of us who are geeks and / or on a book buying spree, would you consider compiling all the suggestions into a post (or maybe copying them into the original post)? I’ve tried to scroll through the 179 ish comments to see if the books I wanted to suggest have already been mentioned or not.
So please forgive me for any double ups, and here are my suggestions:
- “Colonising the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in 19th Century India” by David Arnold. A fascinating tour through the now most populous country on earth and how all the same tricks were applied 200 years ago (getting people to buy into injections by getting “natives of influence” to encourage people, social stigmatisation, dismissing Ayurveda etc).
As an Indian, my favourite part in the book is the part where Arnold describes how baffled Indian doctors are by reductionist allopathy which appears to be centred around endless dissections. Indian medical students often refused to do dissections as it was considered taboo to cut up someone’s aunt, brother, father, etc - and anyway, what on earth can you learn about curing whole living people from cutting up dead people?! (Besides anatomy - good for orthopaedics maybe but not most diseases - Indian doctors tended to take a more holistic view that wasn’t just materialist / physicalist)
- “Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime” by Peter Goetzsche (Cochrane Collaboration). Traces how power operates to craft science and create deadly medicines while evading public accountability.
- Final chapter of Robert OJ Becker’s “The Body Electric” where he talks about how his work was censored and funding withdrawn (rest of the book is more scientific info).
- Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison - about the dieting and wellness industry and its dodgy science. Related books are Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Trebole and Denise Minger’s blog “Raw Food SOS: Rescuing Good Health from Bad Science” is brilliant in dissecting headline studies on food’s impact on health (though less about the political stuff). Sadly all these authors have superb analysis when it comes to the diet world but fell prey to COVID dogma - but nonetheless useful resources.
- “Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health” by Denise Minger
- “Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics Making Billion Dollar Profits At Our Expense” by Dr Claus Köhnlein, Dr Samantha Bailey MD, and Dr Stefan Scoglio PhD.
- “Béchamp or Pasteur? A lost chapter in the history of biology.” By Ethel D Hume (1923). Also contains “Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter” by R Pearson (1942). Slightly more science than politics but certainly shows how Pasteur cuddling up to the wealthy and generally being a charismatic showman has grossly skewed the science.
- “The Final Pandemic: An Antidote to Medical Tyranny” by Drs Samantha and Mark Bailey, MDs. Also “Can you catch a cold: Untold history and human experiments” by Daniel Roytas. “Terrain Therapy” by Ulric Williams was first published in 1930’s on similar themes and while its not a political economy type of book, its fascinating that Williams could do presciently pinpoint the political - economic problem with healthcare in his rants in the book.
- Everything by Harold Hillman is brilliant. It’s more science than politics but shows how much nonsense there is in science, which has become all technology and no biology. I guess the technology-magicians wanted to sell their newfangled products like electron microscopes (and now PCR and Next Generation Sequencing DNA lab kits) despite the fact that you can’t learn much about biology through these…
I. First Book: Certainty and Uncertainty in Biochemical Techniques
II. Second book: The Living Cell
III. Third book: Cellular Structure of the Mammalian Nervous System
IV. Fourth book: The Case for New Paradigms in Cell Biology - originally titled Letter to Students of Biology of the Twenty First Century
V. Fifth book: Atlas of the Cellular Structure of the Human Nervous System
VI. Sixth and final book: Evidence Based Cell Biology, with Some Implications for Clinical Research
- Books and podcasts by Dr Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon also all great
- Investigative journalism articles by Rebecca Strong’s Substack “Down the Rabbit Hole”. Also see her piece on Medium “Putting Big Bad Pharma Back on Trial in the COVID-19 Era”.
“If our society wants science it must choose between totalitarianism and democracy. There can be no compromise.”
An essential read. From back when the Council on Foreign Relations publicly questioned totalitarianism instead of demanding it, the journal of the CFR, Foreign Affairs, shared more truth than it hid. This 1941 article provides a fascinating insight to the field of science under Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. And asks questions about the role of science in a democracy. The number of parallels to what we are experiencing today are striking.
"The totalitarian conception of the relation of science to the state is remarkably elastic. When political expediency so determines, the whole concept is modified. "
…
"This Nazi and Soviet pursuit of "rebels" may seem absurd, but actually it is logical. An artist or a scientist in Germany and in Russia serves the state. He therefore cannot separate his politics from his strictly professional activities. If he departs from the prevailing official ideology he automatically becomes an anti-Nazi in Germany and a counter-revolutionary in the Soviet Union."
…
"It was also charged that Soviet materialistic works on cosmology "have been suppressed by the enemies of the people." In other words, because Marx and Engels were saturated in Victorian materialism, which followed Newton in picturing the universe as a colossal machine instead of a problem in higher geometry, all the experimental and observational evidence that supports relativity must be rejected.
How does science like this tyranny? A few bold spirits still survive in Germany and Russia, but, on the whole, there is a remarkable pliancy of the scientific mind in both countries."
…
"The Russian gift of recantation, which marked the trials of Party members accused of adherence to Trotsky, manifests itself in science as well as in politics.
Back of the ideologies of the dictators, back of the professional pliancy, is something more than political expediency, something more than blind obedience. Long before the world ever heard of Mussolini and Stalin and Hitler it was in a state of social unrest. The revolutions that overthrew the Romanoffs and the Hohenzollerns, the upheavals that gave British labor new rights and privileges, were expressions of dissatisfaction with the social structure. To say that the dictators emerged because science and technology had taken possession of society and stamped it with a pattern utterly different from that which the égalitarians of the eighteenth century knew is an over-simplification. There are psychic factors that cannot be ignored -- inner drives, national traditions, habits of life. Yet if the dictators are to be overthrown, if democracy is to be preserved, the part that science and technology played in the rise of democracy cannot be ignored. Research produces not only change within science itself but social change. The democratic method is to adapt social change to technological change. The dictators are trying to do the contrary.
In considering the relation of science to the dictators we must bear in mind that the human mind is intrinsically no better than it was 10,000 years ago. It simply has acquired new interests under social tension. In the Middle Ages social tension expressed itself so strongly in religion that there were 110 holy days in the year; a new ecclesiastical architecture was evolved; all Europe rose to the spiritual need of wresting Jerusalem from the "infidel." Today, however, it means more to our society to discover how the atom is constituted than that a new ecclesiastical architecture is developed, more that the mechanism of heredity is revealed than that savages in Africa are converted to Christianity. Perhaps its pragmatic attitude has led science to ignore essential ethical values. But the point is that science dominates our society, and that if our society wants science it must choose between totalitarianism and democracy. There can be no compromise."
…
"When the business man and the inventor were freed from this aristocratic fetishism, machine after machine appeared, and with the machines came mass production and mass consumption of identical goods. Without standardization mass production is impossible. To have cheap, good clothes we must all dress more or less alike. To bring automobiles within the reach of millions we must have the assembly line. To live inexpensively in cities we must eat packaged foods, dwell in more or less standardized homes, bathe in standardized bath tubs, and draw water and gas from common reservoirs. Mass production has brought it about that the average life in New York is hardly different from the average life in Wichita. The same motion pictures brighten the screen, the same voices and music well out of loud-speakers in every town, identical cans of tomatoes and packages of cereals are to be found on all grocers' shelves, identical electric toasters brown identical slices of bread everywhere, identical refrigerators freeze identical ice cubes in a million kitchens. If gunpowder made all men the same height, in Carlyle's classic phrase, mass production has standardized behavior, pleasures, tastes, comforts, life itself.
Mass production and labor-saving devices have created a social crisis. We cannot have mass production and mechanization without planning. Engineers and their financial backers are planners. Dictators are planners. Whether they know it or not, most corporation executives and engineers are necessary totalitarians in practice. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin clearly have the instincts of engineers. Their states are designed social structures."
…
"Often enough we hear it said that mechanical invention has outstripped social invention -- that new social forms must be devised if we are to forestall the economic crises that are brought about by what is called the "impact of science" on society. Communism and Fascism are social inventions, intended among other things to solve the economic problems created by technological change under the influence of capitalism. They attempt to answer a question: Are the technical experts and their financial backers to shape the course of society unrestrained, and even to rule nations directly and indirectly, as they did in France, and as they do in part in Great Britain and the United States? The totalitarians say that a capitalistic democratic government cannot control the experts, the inventors, the creators of this evolving mechanical culture. They therefore have decided to take control of thinking, above all scientific thinking, out of which flow the manufacturing processes and the machines which change life.
But science is more than coal-tar dyes and drugs, electric lamps, airplanes, radio, television, relativity and astrophysics. It is an attitude of mind -- what Professor Whitehead has called "the most intimate change in outlook that the human race has yet experienced." If Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin are to rule, that scientific attitude will have to be abandoned when it conflicts with the official social philosophy. But if it is abandoned there can be no Newtons, no Darwins, no Einsteins. Science will be unable to make discoveries which will change the human outlook and, with the outlook, the social order. If the world wants to preserve science as a powerful social force for good the research physicist, chemist and biologist must be permitted to work without intellectual restraint, i.e. to enjoy the fundamental freedom of democracy."
…
"An essential to this progress has been that the scientist has not demanded that his theory be considered "true." He does not profess to know what the truth is. A theory must work. It is an expedient. When it ceases to work it is thrown overboard or modified. This method of merciless self-examination cannot be followed in a society where the result of each investigation is predetermined for extraneous reasons. Democracy flounders before it arrives at satisfactory solutions of its social problems. But it is better to flounder and progress than to follow the philosophy of a dictator and to remain socially and scientifically static."
We have been living in an age of scientism or pseudo-science for at least the past 200 years because real science was dominated and controlled by powers that couldn't care less about evidence-based facts and truth; specifically the history of medical science and human health reveal how widespread fraud , lies, deception and propaganda played key roles in preventing the advancement of real science; it became a matter of following the money and controlling the fake narratives by lying about historical fact and burying the realities of genuine science; to this day we revere one of the greatest frauds and charlatans of all time in the person of Pasteur while ignoring and vilifying the real genius of Antoine Bechamp; even Pasteur finally admitted that his germs of the air theory was wrong but that didn't stop it from becoming the basis for the allopathic model of medicine and training to this day; the world now suffers the consequences of such fraud and its extreme perpetuation by the military/medical/pharmaceutical industry with its promotion of Frankenscience.
The Roman Republic was a young and vigorous society that didn't have an official "Science" or an official "Engineering". They were quite willing to adopt techniques from Etruscans, Greeks, Carthaginians, and even Celts; improving and universalizing them. It was in the later Roman Empire that they became slower at adopting "barbarian" practices. They also suffered from an ever growing bureaucracy and an immiseration of the free plebiean population.
As Patricia P. said “Excellence thought provoking”.
The depth of this article you presented to those that will follow your directive and produce an ever-expanding list of Books, Papers and Videos, will become as historic as the list of “Died Suddenly”. We (I) know the intricacies of governments (power) and Science (of all manners). Having read many books, articles and seen video presentations involving this exact subject, my age has been enhanced with constant learning.
To this point I could be an expert witness of the aggravation to the world population by the people that think they are in control. Can I voice my knowledge, not in the way that you and many others have. My understanding of Those, in power and science, who wish us harm is embedded in my soul. It cannot be explained, it has become an intuition or a feeling if you will.
Excellence thought provoking article. I do differ in that I see political taking over science rather than science taking over. Everything happens in cycles. Rather than pin the devolvement of the world's ecosystem on science etc, perhaps the World and our nation have reached the end of their "lives". I am struck with how circular everything is and came to this years ago. Everyone appears to have a "life".
”Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
/Albert Einstein
That is in my opinion true also for politicians.
"If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain"
/ George Carlin
In the USA I suggest you consider RFK JR! He reads science, understands it, he understands law, and seem decent enough to do the right thing. I have the feeling he will do much great stuff for the USA.
I agree that science is always at the forefront in creating new economies, wealth and power.
I also believe that morality is influenced by how people are reared and educate and their consequent understanding of how the use of power affects society and the future of they and their progeny for the good or the bad. After all what we do is determined by how we want our world to be, heaven or hell.
The corruption of voting technology in the 2020 election is crystal clear and is a good example of how technology can be used for selfish reasons; however complex, the technology is understood by all parties to the conflict and the outcome will be decided by the moral strength of the contestants. This video, made by white hats shows the extensive use of both manual and electronic voter fraud in the 2020 election. The motives of the parties are clear. On the democrap black hat side, seizing power and opportunity at the expense of voters was the primary goal, on the white hat side are heros who want to preserve the Constitution and Bill of rights by preserving honest elections and opportunity for all.
The most honest assessment on this subject (that I have ever read) is "Industrial Society And Its Future" and its subsequent, updated and expanded version; "Technological Slavery" by Theadore Kaczynski aka "The Unimbomer". Not for the weak or faint hearted. Not for anyone who has any allusions that anything less than a total breakdown of the system will stop the system from devouring every last vestige of human dignity, autonomy and freedom. Nothing will stop what is coming expect a total technological apocalypse. There is no reform. And revolution is about as possible as stopping the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs from striking. In a way, it's already happened. All one can do is wake up and watch the the transition with as much detachment as possible. Control what you can, but most people have no idea what this means. Again, I wholeheartedly recommend reading ISAIF and Technological Slavery.
"Do you hear that Mr Anderson? It's the sound of inevitability."
-Agent Smith
(Except in the real version there is no Neo to save the world, and the light at the end of the tunnel is an AI slave patrol bot coming to send you slithering helplessly down the drain of useless waste.)
Thanks, Toby. Another evocative read that rightly warrants more conversation. And several great comments & links to follow up on.
This one, less erudite perhaps, and written a while back originally though for those who call themselves 'Christian' and are thinking through issues of faith, science & healing...admittedly requiring more rigorous thought in relation to more recent findings
Here's a listing of great readings regarding Science and anti-Power.
List of Resources for Accurate Information Regarding Vaccination
The list includes resources on vaccine science, raising healthy, unvaccinated children, and healing from vaccine-injury.
BOOKS
· Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth
· Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
· Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak
· Miller’s Critical Review of Vaccine Studies
· What About Immunizations? Exposing the Vaccine Philosophy
· Saying No to Vaccines
· Crooked: Man-Made Disease Explained
· Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
· Vaccines and Autoimmunity
· How to End the Autism Epidemic
· The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line
· How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor
· Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child
· The Unvaccinated Child: A Treatment Guide for Parents and Caregivers
· Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies
· Books by, or forwarded by, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Toby, for those of us who are geeks and / or on a book buying spree, would you consider compiling all the suggestions into a post (or maybe copying them into the original post)? I’ve tried to scroll through the 179 ish comments to see if the books I wanted to suggest have already been mentioned or not.
So please forgive me for any double ups, and here are my suggestions:
- “Colonising the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in 19th Century India” by David Arnold. A fascinating tour through the now most populous country on earth and how all the same tricks were applied 200 years ago (getting people to buy into injections by getting “natives of influence” to encourage people, social stigmatisation, dismissing Ayurveda etc).
As an Indian, my favourite part in the book is the part where Arnold describes how baffled Indian doctors are by reductionist allopathy which appears to be centred around endless dissections. Indian medical students often refused to do dissections as it was considered taboo to cut up someone’s aunt, brother, father, etc - and anyway, what on earth can you learn about curing whole living people from cutting up dead people?! (Besides anatomy - good for orthopaedics maybe but not most diseases - Indian doctors tended to take a more holistic view that wasn’t just materialist / physicalist)
- “Deadly Medicine and Organised Crime” by Peter Goetzsche (Cochrane Collaboration). Traces how power operates to craft science and create deadly medicines while evading public accountability.
- Final chapter of Robert OJ Becker’s “The Body Electric” where he talks about how his work was censored and funding withdrawn (rest of the book is more scientific info).
- Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison - about the dieting and wellness industry and its dodgy science. Related books are Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Trebole and Denise Minger’s blog “Raw Food SOS: Rescuing Good Health from Bad Science” is brilliant in dissecting headline studies on food’s impact on health (though less about the political stuff). Sadly all these authors have superb analysis when it comes to the diet world but fell prey to COVID dogma - but nonetheless useful resources.
- “Death by Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics and Shady Special Interests Have Ruined Our Health” by Denise Minger
- “Virus Mania: How the Medical Industry Continually Invents Epidemics Making Billion Dollar Profits At Our Expense” by Dr Claus Köhnlein, Dr Samantha Bailey MD, and Dr Stefan Scoglio PhD.
- “Béchamp or Pasteur? A lost chapter in the history of biology.” By Ethel D Hume (1923). Also contains “Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter” by R Pearson (1942). Slightly more science than politics but certainly shows how Pasteur cuddling up to the wealthy and generally being a charismatic showman has grossly skewed the science.
- “The Final Pandemic: An Antidote to Medical Tyranny” by Drs Samantha and Mark Bailey, MDs. Also “Can you catch a cold: Untold history and human experiments” by Daniel Roytas. “Terrain Therapy” by Ulric Williams was first published in 1930’s on similar themes and while its not a political economy type of book, its fascinating that Williams could do presciently pinpoint the political - economic problem with healthcare in his rants in the book.
- Everything by Harold Hillman is brilliant. It’s more science than politics but shows how much nonsense there is in science, which has become all technology and no biology. I guess the technology-magicians wanted to sell their newfangled products like electron microscopes (and now PCR and Next Generation Sequencing DNA lab kits) despite the fact that you can’t learn much about biology through these…
I. First Book: Certainty and Uncertainty in Biochemical Techniques
II. Second book: The Living Cell
III. Third book: Cellular Structure of the Mammalian Nervous System
IV. Fourth book: The Case for New Paradigms in Cell Biology - originally titled Letter to Students of Biology of the Twenty First Century
V. Fifth book: Atlas of the Cellular Structure of the Human Nervous System
VI. Sixth and final book: Evidence Based Cell Biology, with Some Implications for Clinical Research
- Books and podcasts by Dr Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon also all great
- Investigative journalism articles by Rebecca Strong’s Substack “Down the Rabbit Hole”. Also see her piece on Medium “Putting Big Bad Pharma Back on Trial in the COVID-19 Era”.
“If our society wants science it must choose between totalitarianism and democracy. There can be no compromise.”
An essential read. From back when the Council on Foreign Relations publicly questioned totalitarianism instead of demanding it, the journal of the CFR, Foreign Affairs, shared more truth than it hid. This 1941 article provides a fascinating insight to the field of science under Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. And asks questions about the role of science in a democracy. The number of parallels to what we are experiencing today are striking.
Science in the Totalitarian State
Foreign Affairs, January, 1941
https://web.archive.org/web/20181125112623/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1941-01-01/science-totalitarian-state
My selected excerpts below:
"The totalitarian conception of the relation of science to the state is remarkably elastic. When political expediency so determines, the whole concept is modified. "
…
"This Nazi and Soviet pursuit of "rebels" may seem absurd, but actually it is logical. An artist or a scientist in Germany and in Russia serves the state. He therefore cannot separate his politics from his strictly professional activities. If he departs from the prevailing official ideology he automatically becomes an anti-Nazi in Germany and a counter-revolutionary in the Soviet Union."
…
"It was also charged that Soviet materialistic works on cosmology "have been suppressed by the enemies of the people." In other words, because Marx and Engels were saturated in Victorian materialism, which followed Newton in picturing the universe as a colossal machine instead of a problem in higher geometry, all the experimental and observational evidence that supports relativity must be rejected.
How does science like this tyranny? A few bold spirits still survive in Germany and Russia, but, on the whole, there is a remarkable pliancy of the scientific mind in both countries."
…
"The Russian gift of recantation, which marked the trials of Party members accused of adherence to Trotsky, manifests itself in science as well as in politics.
Back of the ideologies of the dictators, back of the professional pliancy, is something more than political expediency, something more than blind obedience. Long before the world ever heard of Mussolini and Stalin and Hitler it was in a state of social unrest. The revolutions that overthrew the Romanoffs and the Hohenzollerns, the upheavals that gave British labor new rights and privileges, were expressions of dissatisfaction with the social structure. To say that the dictators emerged because science and technology had taken possession of society and stamped it with a pattern utterly different from that which the égalitarians of the eighteenth century knew is an over-simplification. There are psychic factors that cannot be ignored -- inner drives, national traditions, habits of life. Yet if the dictators are to be overthrown, if democracy is to be preserved, the part that science and technology played in the rise of democracy cannot be ignored. Research produces not only change within science itself but social change. The democratic method is to adapt social change to technological change. The dictators are trying to do the contrary.
In considering the relation of science to the dictators we must bear in mind that the human mind is intrinsically no better than it was 10,000 years ago. It simply has acquired new interests under social tension. In the Middle Ages social tension expressed itself so strongly in religion that there were 110 holy days in the year; a new ecclesiastical architecture was evolved; all Europe rose to the spiritual need of wresting Jerusalem from the "infidel." Today, however, it means more to our society to discover how the atom is constituted than that a new ecclesiastical architecture is developed, more that the mechanism of heredity is revealed than that savages in Africa are converted to Christianity. Perhaps its pragmatic attitude has led science to ignore essential ethical values. But the point is that science dominates our society, and that if our society wants science it must choose between totalitarianism and democracy. There can be no compromise."
…
"When the business man and the inventor were freed from this aristocratic fetishism, machine after machine appeared, and with the machines came mass production and mass consumption of identical goods. Without standardization mass production is impossible. To have cheap, good clothes we must all dress more or less alike. To bring automobiles within the reach of millions we must have the assembly line. To live inexpensively in cities we must eat packaged foods, dwell in more or less standardized homes, bathe in standardized bath tubs, and draw water and gas from common reservoirs. Mass production has brought it about that the average life in New York is hardly different from the average life in Wichita. The same motion pictures brighten the screen, the same voices and music well out of loud-speakers in every town, identical cans of tomatoes and packages of cereals are to be found on all grocers' shelves, identical electric toasters brown identical slices of bread everywhere, identical refrigerators freeze identical ice cubes in a million kitchens. If gunpowder made all men the same height, in Carlyle's classic phrase, mass production has standardized behavior, pleasures, tastes, comforts, life itself.
Mass production and labor-saving devices have created a social crisis. We cannot have mass production and mechanization without planning. Engineers and their financial backers are planners. Dictators are planners. Whether they know it or not, most corporation executives and engineers are necessary totalitarians in practice. Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin clearly have the instincts of engineers. Their states are designed social structures."
…
"Often enough we hear it said that mechanical invention has outstripped social invention -- that new social forms must be devised if we are to forestall the economic crises that are brought about by what is called the "impact of science" on society. Communism and Fascism are social inventions, intended among other things to solve the economic problems created by technological change under the influence of capitalism. They attempt to answer a question: Are the technical experts and their financial backers to shape the course of society unrestrained, and even to rule nations directly and indirectly, as they did in France, and as they do in part in Great Britain and the United States? The totalitarians say that a capitalistic democratic government cannot control the experts, the inventors, the creators of this evolving mechanical culture. They therefore have decided to take control of thinking, above all scientific thinking, out of which flow the manufacturing processes and the machines which change life.
But science is more than coal-tar dyes and drugs, electric lamps, airplanes, radio, television, relativity and astrophysics. It is an attitude of mind -- what Professor Whitehead has called "the most intimate change in outlook that the human race has yet experienced." If Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin are to rule, that scientific attitude will have to be abandoned when it conflicts with the official social philosophy. But if it is abandoned there can be no Newtons, no Darwins, no Einsteins. Science will be unable to make discoveries which will change the human outlook and, with the outlook, the social order. If the world wants to preserve science as a powerful social force for good the research physicist, chemist and biologist must be permitted to work without intellectual restraint, i.e. to enjoy the fundamental freedom of democracy."
…
"An essential to this progress has been that the scientist has not demanded that his theory be considered "true." He does not profess to know what the truth is. A theory must work. It is an expedient. When it ceases to work it is thrown overboard or modified. This method of merciless self-examination cannot be followed in a society where the result of each investigation is predetermined for extraneous reasons. Democracy flounders before it arrives at satisfactory solutions of its social problems. But it is better to flounder and progress than to follow the philosophy of a dictator and to remain socially and scientifically static."
We have been living in an age of scientism or pseudo-science for at least the past 200 years because real science was dominated and controlled by powers that couldn't care less about evidence-based facts and truth; specifically the history of medical science and human health reveal how widespread fraud , lies, deception and propaganda played key roles in preventing the advancement of real science; it became a matter of following the money and controlling the fake narratives by lying about historical fact and burying the realities of genuine science; to this day we revere one of the greatest frauds and charlatans of all time in the person of Pasteur while ignoring and vilifying the real genius of Antoine Bechamp; even Pasteur finally admitted that his germs of the air theory was wrong but that didn't stop it from becoming the basis for the allopathic model of medicine and training to this day; the world now suffers the consequences of such fraud and its extreme perpetuation by the military/medical/pharmaceutical industry with its promotion of Frankenscience.
The Roman Republic was a young and vigorous society that didn't have an official "Science" or an official "Engineering". They were quite willing to adopt techniques from Etruscans, Greeks, Carthaginians, and even Celts; improving and universalizing them. It was in the later Roman Empire that they became slower at adopting "barbarian" practices. They also suffered from an ever growing bureaucracy and an immiseration of the free plebiean population.
Possible additions: Books on the important role played by the Fed like "The Creature of Jekyl Island" (if that's the right title. I can't remember).
Books by Ron Paul on "real money," inflation and the role of the Fed in transforming society for the worst.
One needs to "follow the money" in government and science so you must ask where does the "money" really come from? And is that "money" really money?
If David Stockman has written a book, those are probably enlightening.
John Whitehead's books on the eradication of civil liberties.
Great, thought-provoking article, Toby!
As Patricia P. said “Excellence thought provoking”.
The depth of this article you presented to those that will follow your directive and produce an ever-expanding list of Books, Papers and Videos, will become as historic as the list of “Died Suddenly”. We (I) know the intricacies of governments (power) and Science (of all manners). Having read many books, articles and seen video presentations involving this exact subject, my age has been enhanced with constant learning.
To this point I could be an expert witness of the aggravation to the world population by the people that think they are in control. Can I voice my knowledge, not in the way that you and many others have. My understanding of Those, in power and science, who wish us harm is embedded in my soul. It cannot be explained, it has become an intuition or a feeling if you will.
Excellence thought provoking article. I do differ in that I see political taking over science rather than science taking over. Everything happens in cycles. Rather than pin the devolvement of the world's ecosystem on science etc, perhaps the World and our nation have reached the end of their "lives". I am struck with how circular everything is and came to this years ago. Everyone appears to have a "life".
About the relationship between science and power.
”Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”
/Albert Einstein
That is in my opinion true also for politicians.
"If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain"
/ George Carlin
In the USA I suggest you consider RFK JR! He reads science, understands it, he understands law, and seem decent enough to do the right thing. I have the feeling he will do much great stuff for the USA.
He is blacked out by media. Support him!
Great observations.
Toby,
I agree that science is always at the forefront in creating new economies, wealth and power.
I also believe that morality is influenced by how people are reared and educate and their consequent understanding of how the use of power affects society and the future of they and their progeny for the good or the bad. After all what we do is determined by how we want our world to be, heaven or hell.
The corruption of voting technology in the 2020 election is crystal clear and is a good example of how technology can be used for selfish reasons; however complex, the technology is understood by all parties to the conflict and the outcome will be decided by the moral strength of the contestants. This video, made by white hats shows the extensive use of both manual and electronic voter fraud in the 2020 election. The motives of the parties are clear. On the democrap black hat side, seizing power and opportunity at the expense of voters was the primary goal, on the white hat side are heros who want to preserve the Constitution and Bill of rights by preserving honest elections and opportunity for all.
https://rumble.com/v51wnzc-the-deep-rig.html
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Thanks for this! A recommendation:The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant.
Thanks for this very insightful article and ambitious project - much needed!
A film that clearly shows the relationship : Cancer - The Forbidden Cures
https://rumble.com/vyzgbt-cancer-the-forbidden-cures.html
Another on how science and money uprooted traditional culture in Africa's Rift Valley :
A Thousand Suns - https://www.globalonenessproject.org/library/films/thousand-suns
Books: The Poisoned Needle - Elenor McBean 1957
Selling Sickness - Ray Moynihan , Alan Cassels Nation Books www.nationbooks.org
Dissolving Illusions - Disease, Vaccines, and the forgotten History - Suzanne
Humphries , Roman Bystrianyk
And a thousand thanks for doing this!!
And don't forget Antoine Bechamp, Royal Rife and Florence Nightingale , about whom much has been written but mostly ignored and/or forgotten!
The most honest assessment on this subject (that I have ever read) is "Industrial Society And Its Future" and its subsequent, updated and expanded version; "Technological Slavery" by Theadore Kaczynski aka "The Unimbomer". Not for the weak or faint hearted. Not for anyone who has any allusions that anything less than a total breakdown of the system will stop the system from devouring every last vestige of human dignity, autonomy and freedom. Nothing will stop what is coming expect a total technological apocalypse. There is no reform. And revolution is about as possible as stopping the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs from striking. In a way, it's already happened. All one can do is wake up and watch the the transition with as much detachment as possible. Control what you can, but most people have no idea what this means. Again, I wholeheartedly recommend reading ISAIF and Technological Slavery.
"Do you hear that Mr Anderson? It's the sound of inevitability."
-Agent Smith
(Except in the real version there is no Neo to save the world, and the light at the end of the tunnel is an AI slave patrol bot coming to send you slithering helplessly down the drain of useless waste.)
Thanks, Toby. Another evocative read that rightly warrants more conversation. And several great comments & links to follow up on.
This one, less erudite perhaps, and written a while back originally though for those who call themselves 'Christian' and are thinking through issues of faith, science & healing...admittedly requiring more rigorous thought in relation to more recent findings
https://open.substack.com/pub/rogerarendse/p/faith-science-and-healing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ql0vi
Here's a listing of great readings regarding Science and anti-Power.
List of Resources for Accurate Information Regarding Vaccination
The list includes resources on vaccine science, raising healthy, unvaccinated children, and healing from vaccine-injury.
BOOKS
· Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth
· Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History
· Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak
· Miller’s Critical Review of Vaccine Studies
· What About Immunizations? Exposing the Vaccine Philosophy
· Saying No to Vaccines
· Crooked: Man-Made Disease Explained
· Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
· Vaccines and Autoimmunity
· How to End the Autism Epidemic
· The Business of Baby: What Doctors Don’t Tell You, What Corporations Try to Sell You, and How to Put Your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Baby Before Their Bottom Line
· How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor
· Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child
· The Unvaccinated Child: A Treatment Guide for Parents and Caregivers
· Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies
· Books by, or forwarded by, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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