Relax, this is not another post about Climategate – which means it’s a post that has everything to do with Climategate.
Myths are always propagated by those who wish to remain in power. Wizards wear robes. Scientists wear lab coats. Today’s truths are tomorrow’s myths.
Scientific mythmakers are no different from other prophets (all prophets are false prophets). They form a belief based on their moral values. They envelope this belief with dogma and texts that most can’t cipher. Then they burn heretical works.
In the early 60s, the Eastern Europeans dominated the Olympics. They especially dominated strength sports. As everyone knew then – and as everyone knows today – the Eastern Europeans were using high amounts of anabolic steroids.
And yet the Physician’s Desk Reference, as early as a decade ago, read: “There is no evidence that anabolic steroids improve sports performance.”
Today we all blame scientific bias on BigPharma. That’s a false enemy. There were no anti-steroid companies biasing thinking on steroids. No one had any financial incentive to prevent athletes and gym rates from using steroids. There was no quid pro quo. The bias was much more pernicious.
When researching steroids, scientists started from this premise: Steroids are evil. Something that is evil must therefore not work. Something that is evil must not work. Or if it does work, you shouldn’t use it. Therefore, we’ll ensure that all evidence points away from the truth.
Thus, for decades, scientists proclaimed something that athletes, bodybuilders, and gym rats knew to be false. Scientists even did a pretty decent job. If you think it’s obvious that steroids work: Why were you shocked to learn that baseball and football players use steroids?
To avoid looking like fools, today’s scientists admit that steroids “work.” There’s not a person reading this who’d now dispute this obvious truth. If I were to say, “Steroids work,” you’d call me banal. Will you call the next truth banal?
Steroids are not just effective, they are healthy and life enhancing. Every male over 40 should be on exogenous testosterone.
Yet doctors keep preaching myths – myths that you thoughtlessly follow while you suffer decreased libido (if you’re on T, you don’t need magical purple pills) and lack of male aggression.
In ten two twenty years, testosterone therapy will be mainstream. Everyone will be on it. Recommending that someone obtain a testosterone cream will be met with, “How banal.”
Now we see the connection to Climategate. Is global warming man made? I don’t know, and I don’t have an opinion. I do know this: I know about performance-enhancing drugs. Everything I had every been told about steroids was a lie. Why then should I take anything climatologists say on faith?
And make no mistake: They are demanding that you take their opinions on faith. Climate scientists keep claiming that their models have predictive value. Yet they won’t share the underlying data of their model. No disinterested person can run an experience?
They have also perverted the peer-review process. The mainstream climate scientists have made a concerted effort to shut down scientists who disagree with them. They even made an effort to shut down an entire scientific journal.
They are perverting the media. New York Times reporter Andy Revkin recently received this threat: “Stop reporting negative information about climate scientists, or we’ll stop feeding your stories.” What does that say of the climate scientists?
What does it say of Revkin’s credibly? Obviously Revkin is nothing but a mouthpiece for scientists. He knows the deal. If he wants stories, he needs to tread carefully. Repeat the myths. Spread the orthodoxy.
Is any of this sounding familiar? How many positive reports have you read about steroids? The media keeps repeating the scientific lies. Steroids are ineffective. Or if they are effective, they are dangerous!
Again, I know nothing about the climate. If I wanted to learn about global warming, I’d take the same approach I took with steroids: I’d read independent research papers.
Yet the global warming priests won’t allow that, will they? They won’t allow independent research. I learned about steroids by reading the heretics. In climate science, the heretics are burned at the stake.
I’m willing to admit my ignorance of global warming. Are you? Or do you think that accepting something on faith is superior to professing ignorance? If you do, then the wizards and warlocks have won the battle for your mind.
