Vox Day attempts to rectify names related to science.

Derb snears at this as if the rapidly changing official newspeak was a valid means of communication, indeed the only possible valid means of communication.

Our rulers are systematically changing the meaning of words in order to obliterate reality and make it difficult for people to think, creating words that link unlike things together, make distinctions without real difference, obliterating the meanings of old words that make meaningful distinctions, and giving old words new nonsense meanings, meanings intended to make males, whites, and straights weak, frightened, and ashamed.

For example “pedophile” links together men who find ten year old boys attractive, men who find ten year old girls attractive, men whom ten year old girls find attractive (since girls can never do anything wrong, except some evil male makes them do it) and men who find fifteen year old girls with delicious breasts, bouncy buttocks, slim waists, broad hips, and fully functioning reproductive systems attractive. These are different populations. Men who find ten year old boys sexually attractive are also apt to find manly adult men sexually attractive, and are not likely to find ten year old girls attractive. Men who find ten year old girls sexually attractive are unlikely to find ten year old boys attractive, and highly unlikely to find manly adult men sexually attractive. Men whom ten year old girls find attractive are almost always preselected by an adult female demonstrating their extreme alpha characteristics (Cinderella is all about preselection) so are unlikely to be paying much attention to the misbehaving ten year old girl. And, of course, all straight males are pedophiles, because all straight males are sexually attracted to fifteen year old girls with delicious breasts, bouncy buttocks, and slim waists. Which is of course the whole point and purpose of the word “pedophile”: to normalize gays, excuse female bad behavior, and demonize straights.

To see the use of the word to normalize gay sex between a middle aged man and a ten year old schoolboy, while making sex between a fifteen year old girl and a nineteen year old male sexually deviant, observe the “anti bullying” campaign. If you worry about a middle aged male hugging cross dressing schoolboy, you are a “bully”. If you are not worried about a thirty year old male hugging fifteen year old girl, you are a “pedophile”.

Vox Day attempts to deal with the problem of leftists killing science, gutting the body, and wearing its carcass as a skin suit, by introducing some new words:

Scientody: the process

Scientage: the knowledge base

Scientistry: the profession

However, we already have well established words for all of these, in particular and most importantly the established phrase “the scientific method”, which from the restoration to World War II was defined and enforced by the Royal Society.

Unfortunately, after World War II Harvard introduced a new process, “peer review” wherein official “scientists” meet behind closed doors, decide the official truth on the basis of secret evidence that they refuse to reveal to the public, and then make sure that anything that gets published is in accord with the “consensus”, a procedure revealed in the Climategate files. Peer review is in practice a conspiracy against the public by people trying to give themselves powerful positions in the official state religion.

The trouble with consensus, is that if someone tells you, in place of actual evidence, that X is the consensus, then chances are that all the people who believe in X are also taking the consensus as evidence. This is a positive feedback loop, similar to the squeal which occurs when you hold the microphone too close a loudspeaker. When you hold the microphone too close to a loudspeaker you get meaningless noise, and the scientific consensus is meaningless noise. Anything peer reviewed should be read with the same suspicion and incredulity as when one reads articles by believers on the lives of their saints, for much the same reasons.

The knowledge base that Vox Day refers to are the experiments and observations, but these are increasingly being contaminated by peer reviewed material. If you read The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet (a thorough study of how the scientific consensus of fat developed and changed) you will discover that peer reviewed material is like a barrel of wine to which a bucket of sewage has been added. Her account of the Mediterranean diet is a particularly entertaining depiction of the manufacture of consensus and the subsequent development of peer reviewed evidence for that consensus. After reading that, I stopped using vegetable oil. And if you consume peer reviewed material, you are getting a mixture of facts and sewage.

However, thanks to powerful articles by Feynman and Galileo, the old meaning of “scientific method” is not lost beyond recovery, and we should not abandon it for Vox Day’s new word “scientody”.

Where old words with old meanings still have some life in them, we should defend and restore the old words and old meanings, rather than coining new words.

When the restoration comes, we may well need a new word in place of “marriage” but “scientific method” is not so far gone that we need Vox Day’s “scientody”.

Whenever necessary, we need to explain that climate skeptics are actually practicing the scientific method, while the climategate files reveal that “scientists” have absolutely no interest in whether the world is warming or cooling, or whether humans are causing climate change or not. They are looking for ammunition, not truth.

As for the scientific profession, it is increasingly priestly. If you practice the old style scientific method, you are going to find it difficult to get published. Indeed, if you are affiliated with an institution, you will need to get the permission of numerous bureaucracies and bureaucrats to do the experiment you are interested in, and you will not even be allowed to do the experiment if it touches on anything political – and these days all sorts of things that you never imagined to be political, will, to your surprise, and in defiance of all logic, turn out to have been politicized.

Tags: anticoncept, rectification of names