Comments on: Scientific authority is one of the foundations of power in our society https://www.isegoria.net/2022/10/scientific-authority-is-one-of-the-foundations-of-power-in-our-society/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Bomag https://www.isegoria.net/2022/10/scientific-authority-is-one-of-the-foundations-of-power-in-our-society/comment-page-1/#comment-3568604 Bomag Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:31:40 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49324#comment-3568604 “Oh, oh, my dear sirs, if only this were so.”

This.

Science has almost never prevailed in any human society. Islam had a flourishing, then crushed the thing. Can’t say it had any ruling traction in historical China and India. Today, the demographic power is with those who pointedly embrace superstition, violence, and low-brow paganism.

]]> By: VXXC https://www.isegoria.net/2022/10/scientific-authority-is-one-of-the-foundations-of-power-in-our-society/comment-page-1/#comment-3568531 VXXC Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:14:24 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49324#comment-3568531 “Only the most powerful individuals in society can afford to endorse the right immature and speculative ideas, which is where all good ideas begin their life cycle.”

Pay me Rich man I have good idea
and your idea are good too
if you pay me

]]> By: VXXC https://www.isegoria.net/2022/10/scientific-authority-is-one-of-the-foundations-of-power-in-our-society/comment-page-1/#comment-3568528 VXXC Wed, 12 Oct 2022 22:12:50 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49324#comment-3568528 “Today, theology has nothing to do with it.”

Oh, oh, my dear sirs, if only this were so.

]]> By: Michael van der Riet https://www.isegoria.net/2022/10/scientific-authority-is-one-of-the-foundations-of-power-in-our-society/comment-page-1/#comment-3568433 Michael van der Riet Wed, 12 Oct 2022 09:53:42 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49324#comment-3568433 I think that we humans are hard-wired to rank the religious higher than the secular. For over a millennium it was regarded as self-evident that the church was top dog. Then came the supposed Reformation and Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution, but nothing has changed. We’re back to feelings trump facts. The Environmental Religion, the Gender Religion, the Race Religion.

Burja is an interesting thinker but extremely reluctant to reveal his own stances. The felicitous phrases all too often peter out in soothing generalizations. Not being cancelled is obviously his prime concern.

]]> By: David Foster https://www.isegoria.net/2022/10/scientific-authority-is-one-of-the-foundations-of-power-in-our-society/comment-page-1/#comment-3568191 David Foster Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:30:49 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49324#comment-3568191 “The dreams of automating scientific progress with vast and well-funded bureaucracies have evidently failed” To some extent, this problem is addressed by venture capital.

]]> By: Adar https://www.isegoria.net/2022/10/scientific-authority-is-one-of-the-foundations-of-power-in-our-society/comment-page-1/#comment-3568133 Adar Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:26:17 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49324#comment-3568133 Funny in a way these Ivy League schools were founded with producing highly educated ministers with a good intellectual capacity. I would imagine those same schools today the preponderance of the faculty either atheists or at best agnostics tending toward atheism.

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