{"id":1765335,"date":"2022-12-06T18:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765335"},"modified":"2022-12-06T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:32:57","slug":"knowles-science-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-science-is-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowles: Science Is Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fknowles-science-is-fake%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1765335&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The following was adapted from remarks delivered at Franciscan University of Steubenville on Tuesday, November 29, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>When I speak on campus, the libs call me all sorts of names: \u201cracist,\u201d \u201csexist,\u201d \u201c-phobic.\u201d But the charge they hurl at me most often these days is \u201canti-science.\u201d It doesn\u2019t matter what I\u2019m talking about: the coronavirus, gender, global warming, etc. The most frequent accusation these days, tantamount to a charge of blasphemy, is that I\u2019m \u201canti-science.\u201d And to that accusation, I say, \u201cGuilty as charged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many conservatives hate being called \u201canti-science.\u201d It makes them feel foolish and ignorant. That is why they try to ground all of their arguments in scientific-sounding jargon. When the liberals call us \u201canti-science\u201d for denying their alleged \u201cbreakthroughs\u201d in the science of sex and gender, conservatives hurl the insult right back at them. We accuse them of being \u201canti-science\u201d for denying the scientific reality of sex. We refer to \u201cbiological males,\u201d \u201cbiological females\u201d \u2014 as if biology were the only thing that mattered.<\/p>\n<p>When the libs accuse us of being \u201canti-science\u201d for objecting to their taking away all of our rights and freedoms and way of life for over two years, conservatives return the very same insult. We say, \u201cWe\u2019re not anti-science! You\u2019re anti-science!\u201d And then we recite a litany of scientific arguments for why hankies on our faces wouldn\u2019t stop a pandemic. As if there were no other reason other than \u201cscience\u201d not to give all of our political power to a diminutive technocrat in a lab coat and all of his lackeys.<\/p>\n<p>When the liberals call us \u201canti-science\u201d for doubting that the world will end in 10 years if we don\u2019t destroy our economy and radically alter the way to eat, work, get around, heat our homes, and do pretty much everything else that we do, what do we say? We say, \u201cNuh-uh, you\u2019re anti-science!\u201d And then we cite our own statistics on sea levels and storms and temperatures or whatever, as though \u201cscience\u201d were the ultimate \u2014 nay, the only \u2014 authority when it comes to ascertaining truth.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sick of it. I don\u2019t care if the libs call me foolish, or ignorant, or a knuckle-dragging troglodyte. I will not play their game. I will not worship their false god. I will not take their epistemological bait. \u201cScience\u201d is fake. Conservatives may not be \u201canti-science,\u201d but we should be. We should at least be much more skeptical of the pretenses of science than we are right now.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, as a purely historical matter, science has been wrong about pretty much everything. I refer not only to the past couple of years of COVID incoherence. I\u2019m not just talking about the World Health Organization and the CDC and the NIH and our old pal Dr. Fauci, all of whom made mistakes and told outright lies about COVID, its origins, the masks, the \u201csocial distancing,\u201d the vaccines, the lockdowns, and most everything else. I\u2019m not even talking about relatively recent scientific flubs \u2014 moments such as occurred in 1949, when the neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for inventing the lobotomy.<\/p>\n<p>I mean to look more broadly at the category of \u201cscience\u201d as a whole. Because virtually every single scientific theory about every single thing has been at some point disproven, upended, or replaced.<\/p>\n<p>There was, for example, the theory of the spontaneous generation of life \u2014 widely accepted for millennia that complex life springs from inanimate objects. That was knocked down in the 19th century by Louis Pasteur, who proved \u201cbiogenesis,\u201d the notion that life is generated only from other life,\u201d the diversity of which, it was held for millennia, derives from a single act of creation, a theory that was replaced according to scientists of the 17th century by a theory of transmutation and the \u201cgenealogical ascent of species,\u201d a theory replaced in the following century by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck\u2019s theory that organisms pass on traits acquired during their lifetimes to their offspring, a theory in turn disproven and replaced in the following century by Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of natural selection combined with Mendelian inheritance, which in turn has been complicated if not contradicted by the observation of epigenetics and a return to the formerly discredited views of Lamarck \u2014 all of which has been questioned in recent years not only by kooks and cranks but by serious scholars with top academic credentials, such as David Berlinski of Princeton and David Gelernter of Yale, who have argued that the theory of evolution is no longer mathematically tenable.<\/p>\n<p>I do not mention any of these theories of life to endorse one over another but merely to show that \u201cscience\u201d is a fickle lady. Yet, though the scientists are frequently wrong, they are almost never in doubt. Which is why today, scientists and their disciples insist that we accept their current consensus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following was adapted from remarks delivered at Franciscan University of Steubenville on Tuesday, November 29, 2022. When I speak on campus, the libs call me all sorts of names: \u201cracist,\u201d \u201csexist,\u201d \u201c-phobic.\u201d But the charge they hurl at me most often these days is \u201canti-science.\u201d It doesn\u2019t matter what I\u2019m talking about: the coronavirus, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":1765338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}