Ecologist Allan Savory on the defects of academic thinking: "I think it's pathetic"

Academia can brainwash talented young people to blindly believe in The Science™ as the ONLY source of truth. Observation, critical thinking and discussion are frowned upon. Instead of TRAINING these skills, they ATROPHY.Show more

Galileo invited everyone to look through his telescope so they could see for themselves that the earth was not the center of our universe, but the sun. Since the academicians were more invested in the dogma than in real science, they rejected his offer.

Especially medical professionals can be groomed to become protocol followers a.k.a. highly educated sheep. They are taught that peer reviewed multi-center prospective double blind placebo controlled trials (which are the sole domain of Big Pharma and are better called Results Controlled Trials) are the only valid proof and that all other forms of 'proof' should be ignored as mere 'anecdotes'.

Discussion is viewed as spreading misinformation. This 'misinformation' should be censored, and the spreaders of this misinformation should be canceled. New theories require perfect (often almost insurmountable) proof while the current narrative requires no proof whatsoever.

True Believers in The Science™ turn out to be completely paralyzed when they have no guidelines to fall back on, since following protocol is the only skill their miseducation. They are also completely unable to fathom that science might be more a marketing tool used to disguise for corruption, profiteering and hidden agenda's, than a way of thinking and behaving that only cares about getting closer to the Truth.

The peer review process is an enormous barrier to big progress (but not incremental progress), because significant progress requires going against the prevailing narrative and anything that goes against the prevailing narrative will not pass peer review.

Case in point is professor Tim Noakes who has done important research on high fat, low carbohydrate diets as a much healthier than the standard American diet (aptly abbreviated as SAD). He could never get his articles published in prominent journals. When he asked why his articles were rejected, peer reviewers said they could find nothing wrong with them, except that the science was already settled on fat being bad and carbohydrates good, so his science must be wrong. This is like saying, "Everybody already knows the earth is flat, so you theory on the earth being a sphere must be wrong."

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People talk glibbery about science. What is science? People are coming out of a university with a masters degree or a PhD. You take them into the field and they literally don't believe anything unless it's a peer reviewed paper, that's the only thing they accept. And you say to them, "Let's observe, let's think, let's discuss." They don't do it. It's just, "Is it in a peer-reviewed paper or not?" That's their view of science. I think it's pathetic. Gone in to universities as bright young people they come out of them brain dead. Not even knowing what science means. They think it means peer-reviewed papers, et cetera. No, that's academia.

If a paper is peer-reviewed, it means everybody thought the same and therefore they approved it. An unintended consequence is that when new knowledge emerges, new scientific insights, they can never ever be peer-reviewed. So we're blocking all new advances in science that are big advances. If you look at the breakthroughs in science, almost always they don't come from the center of that profession. They come from the fringe. The finest candle makers in the world couldn't even think of electric lights. They don't come from within, they often come from outside the breaks. We're going to kill ourselves because of stupidity.

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