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Fall From Science — No Proof Possible
This time of alternative facts looks worse than climate change.
It isn’t that social media is creating too much distraction. It is not even that social media has created too many voices. It is that social media has destroyed truth. Everyone has an opinion. Everyone has a preference. Everyone chooses to disregard anything they do not like. So where … or what is truth?
What if Donald Trump said tomorrow that water is fake? What if Fox News reports that coronavirus is fake? Wait. They did. What if a right wing pundit says water never existed? What if Russia said via Facebook that only Vodka is safe to drink? Who can prove and certify the safety of water after that? At this point the WHO might not have the ability to even examine the water problem.
Between political and ideological agendas and the various environmental and physical or biological problems that bug us, we should probably all be looking for individualized bunkers with endless supplies and no other opinions.
The notion of proving scientific ideas and calling them facts is now dead.
Even if something is peer reviewed or otherwise obvious, spin doctors can now call it fake and have their substantial followings believe it. And even if something is patently wrong or ridiculous, other spin doctors command enough eye balls…
