At left is something 19th Century Scottish author George McDonald had to say on the subject of truth and why brave and honest people feel compelled to call their most cherished beliefs into doubt.
It speaks quite broadly, but most certainly includes the scientific method. Part of the beauty of science is that it is constantly trying to undermine itself. Sure, we believe X about climate science, Y about viral pandemics, and Z about the fundamental building blocks of the universe, but we’re also persistently trying to prove these beliefs incorrect, or at best incomplete, so they can be replaced by better understanding.
In preparation for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I recall asking V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institute, one of the world’s most visible climate scientists, if he was aware that some people claim that he and his peers are steadfast in their positions merely because it enables them to take in more government grant money.
He laughed. “Yes, believe it or not, I have heard that. What these people don’t seem to know is that, regardless of what they may think about my character, is that I could actually become rich if I could prove that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is fundamentally flawed.”
We have to conclude that scientists in all disciplines have to content themselves with a cruel fact: that what they may believe today is under constant attack by those who want to alert us to a better understanding of the world around us, and that this indeed is a positive feature.
As we look at the rankings of the 50 states in terms of education, we notice immediately that the states at the bottom still love Trump, even as his approval ratings have plummeted to 34% due to his sociopathic criminality and his clear intent to remain in office, just like his heroes in Russia, China, Turkey, Hungary, and another 40+ nations around the globe.
From this, we can infer one of the two diametrically opposite things:
1) College cranks out liberals, because it’s their mission to build of the population of woke liberal sissies who will steadily force our nation into socialism, the acceptance of gays and blacks, and the punishing of the wealthy to enrich the poor.
2) Educated people will call out blatant lies, e.g., that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump by massive voter fraud, Trump is innocent of raping children, that bombing Iran is justified because of their threat to attack us first, and that the United States is not rapidly being refashioned into an authoritarian regime.
I’m sure this is the case in all 50 states.
In the U.S., you could no more get a conviction under these circumstances than you could fly to the moon on a surfboard.
Bertrand Russell has been dead for more than half a century, as so we can only speculate as to what he’d have to say about the Trump MAGA base.
If these people are anything, they’re cock-sure that God sent Trump to save our country from ruination by the radical left.
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