PUBLIC DEMORALIZATION IN SCIENCE, ACADEMY, PUBLIC DISCOURSE, MEDIA, AND THE GOVE

PUBLIC DEMORALIZATION IN SCIENCE, ACADEMY, PUBLIC DISCOURSE, MEDIA, AND THE GOVERNMENT.

–“It’s disheartening to see how much influential science is crap and not reproducible.”–

It is. But you know, I did a survey of ‘crank theories’ in physics about three years ago, and it turned out that one of them was rather obviously correct – at least as far as he had taken it – and I expect him to be vindicated at some point. “The universe really is that simple.”

THE PROBLEM
A byproduct of my work on testimony (which is technically what science consists of – the production of testifiable testimony) has led me to catalog human error, bias, deceit, and warfare in painful detail constructed from first principles (physical laws).

IMO, from my research if we limited scientific publication and legitimacy(research), as well as reporting(media), a well as all members of the state and bureaucracy(government), to testifiable testimony (and I’m not going to cover it here, but it’s not that difficult) and held people liable for perjury on one hand, and institutions responsible for incentivizing perjury, then most of modern nonsense would disappear within the decade it took to build a body of case law, and it would both drastically reduce the population every field, rapidly increase it’s quality of output, rapidly increase compensation within the fields, and most importantly, at least in media, produce very wealthy individuals who were exceptional at providing the public with neutral information (instead of gossip, propaganda, sedition, and fraud).

And the public would rather quickly, within a few years, restore trust in science, public intellectuals, media, and the government.

Because that’s what trust consists of. Truth that accounts for the incentives of actors and the ends they seek to produce – most of which are false and impossible given that all ends are limited by demographic composition and geographic location.

Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute

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