{"id":285,"date":"2022-09-11T04:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T03:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/?p=285"},"modified":"2022-09-14T06:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T05:28:38","slug":"authority-and-the-skeptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Authority and the Skeptic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The link between cigarette smoking and cancer is pretty shaky from a truly objective scientific perspective, the man who invented the statistical techniques relied on by epidemiology said so himself (RA Fisher). Ultimately all &#8220;scientific&#8221; decisions and paradigms are political or at the very best subjective. There is no such thing as scientific certainty. In the fundamental analysis science is a description that tells us nothing about meaning. Once government gave up on religion they had to appropriate science as the source of authority, which means science as practiced nowadays is inherently corrupt. You will not be able to &#8220;prove&#8221; anything using science or science adjacent methods that ruling authorities don&#8217;t want you to prove. The battle is spiritual not material in a very real sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The link between cigarette smoking and cancer is pretty shaky from a truly objective scientific perspective, the man who invented the statistical techniques relied on by epidemiology said so himself (RA Fisher). Ultimately all &#8220;scientific&#8221; decisions and paradigms are political or at the very best subjective. There is no such thing as scientific certainty. In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/?p=285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Authority and the Skeptic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","category-prison-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dvc.org.uk\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}