And the improbability of their reaching, on their own wisdom, the truth they feign to demand
It is hard to exaggerate the depth
of ludicricity[1] Leftists bring upon themselves
by their decrial of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter even while parading
themselves as the sole guardians of “helpful” pub-lic discourse. Instead, their determination to censor
opposition exposes them as both cowards who are fearful of scrutiny, and
clueless fools by their lobbing at the Right, “charges” of censorship of the
same nature as their very own posture; a delusional tactic called “psychological
projection.”[2] In both cases they defy any semblance to either
truth-seeking, or the obligations that truth, once known, demands.
President
Biden is now determined to establish “The Truth Commission,” which hauntingly
echoes George Orwell’s prophetic book, 1984.[3] Biden’s ploy is, on two grounds, utterly
absurd. Firstly, in doing so he and his followers
(“the blind leading the blind”) betray complete ignorance of the limits
of intellectual certitude. It is for
example a basic tenet of scientific inquiry that under the best of circum-stances
(when the scientific concern being addressed is closely-connected to mathematical
data, e.g. physics and chemistry), proof is not possible for the reason
that humans are vulnerable to their own biases, committing errors, and/or missing
unforeseen variables. Consequently, valid
research demands checks-and-balances in order to minimize errors. Further, when research turns to more complex
and even controversial areas of science such as biology, and the challenges
that it presents, including viral and bacterial theories, the possibility of
approaching consensus is increasingly difficult. More serious still, however, when scientists
seek to apply theories to the challenge of, for example, life-or-death consequences
in multifaceted contexts such as a pandemic, then reaching an effective
strategy demands assembling not only fully-informed and qualified, but also unique
minds who are granted the freedom to challenge the status quo by actually
following the evidence where it leads (FEL).[4]
The
solitary means for intellectually seeking complex scientific (or
historical) truth is by the strategy known as “Inference to the Best
Explanation” (IBE).[5] On the one hand the means for the simple falsifying
of an erroneous hypothesis is relatively simple, though not directly
constructive. On the other hand, IBE works
to answer questions or address actual problems by first of all agreeing on the
nature of the phenomena that is being addressed. Only after that step is substantially[6]
completed do scientists then propose their hypotheses which seek to account for
the problem. Thirdly, the competing conjec-tures
are scrutinized by all to determine which one most adequately accounts for the
challenge. Now, it shouldn’t be hard to
see how this research strategy is completely defied by Biden’s Administration.
Indeed,
one glaring example of a schema that contradicts the FEL dictum is evident in
the determination of the New York Times to paint Elon Musk as
inherently racist solely by association for reason of his being raised in South
Africa (SA). Although the facts indicate
that 1) Elon had Black friends as a youngster, 2) his father belonged to an
anti-racist party, 3) Elon left SA in order to avoid participating in its army,
the “investigators tweets to the contrary exposed their failing aim to defame
him. [7]
[1] To the charge that this is an invented (non-existent)
word, I reply that the folly that the Left is exuding is utterly without
parallel in history.
[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection
[3] https://george-orwell.org/1984/
[4] H.D.P. Lee, tr. Plato. The Republic. (Penguin,
1955), # 394, p. 133. ** See also my essay, “No Truth? Then No rationality! And
No Enduring Society,” at my website, www.christianityontheoffense.com
[5] “Stephen Meyer on Intelligent Design and the Return of
the God Hypothesis.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_8PPO-cAlA (45:00f).
[6]
Investigation guided by scientific methodology
entails ongoing refining of the relevant data in light of ongoing research.
[7] https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-users-new-york-times-elon-musk-racist-south-africa
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