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From: lambdac-AT-globalserve.net
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:46:35 -0500
Subject: 2. Science, which science?  Official science


2. Science, which science?  Official science

Three sciences: official science (1)

	The official science - science that exhibits the religious nature of
its bias: science in the service of the State, in the service of a
Church, and now science as mass-media digest.  A line to follow in the
steps of giants: this is how things are, do not question it.  All terms
are inverted.  The right to lifers: the word life on their lips stands
for death, survival; the word love, stands for hatred and fanaticism -
saving the unborn from an 'holocaust'; the word holocaust becomes a way
of barring the free choice of others to believe and do differently; the
word creation a mockery of the creative powers of the physical,
energetic and biological Aether.  Or the Galloists: steal Montagnier's
retrovirus; there will be a vaccine for AIDS, sempre maņana; HIV causes
the disease; HIV infection is fatal; safe sex prevents AIDS;
homosexuality is a risky life-style.  Or the relativists: can't believe
god plays with dice, but Time does not exist, only fragments of Time and
parallel universes; can't believe there is a massfree aether, but
SpaceTime has geometric properties; can't believe the universe is
running down, but the anthropic principle will assure us we had to be
here, bang'cruncha (enigma style: why are we here?); can't understand
gravity, but are sure of anti-matter.
	Touch their dogmas and you will be running for cover.  Question their
authority, and the herd instinct will sniff you out as if your body had
not yet been snatched.  Ask them how does it work - how is abortion
murder?, how is AIDS caused by HIV?, how is the universe running down?,
how are Koch's postulates proven?, how does the survivalist mechanism of
evolution work?, and you will be walled off.  Muzzled by the media. 
Shunned by your peers.  Expelled from the academia.  Laughed at by the
herds of little men and little women.  Your grants will be cut.  Your
legs chopped off.  They will drag you on the streets in effigy, if you
were once their hero.  You will hear whispers behind your back.  
	Official science is the continuation of the nihilist labour of negative
religion by other means: fear and faith become replaced by a reason
divorced from its senses.  Science of the dead, science of the
eviscerated, science as potestas.  It culls the authority of reason from
an irrational faith in reason: "but reason is only an instrument, and
Descartes was superficial" (BGE, 191).  The religion of State is
replaced by the religion of science: science as the continuation of
metaphysics: "science as the exactest humanizing of things that is
possible" (GS, 112).  
	Official science is science of the true.  Always in search of a power
for truth.  Science, whose ideals are "unconsciously influenced by
decadence" (WP, #53).  Science as an evolved form of sickness: the
rationalistic disparagement of nature.

Lambda C


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