Monday, April 20, 2020

Quote For The Day - 4/20/2020

"Again, the new oligarchy must more and more base its claim to plan us on its claim to knowledge. If we are to be mothered, mother must know best. This means they must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists, till in the end the politicians proper become merely the scientists’ puppets. Technocracy is the form to which a planned society must tend. Now I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside their special subjects. Let scientists tell us about sciences. But government involves questions about the good for man, and justice, and what things are worth having at what price; and on these a scientific training gives a man’s opinion no added value. Let the doctor tell me I shall die unless I do so-and-so; but whether life is worth having on those terms is no more a question for him than for any other man."
C.S. Lewis

Source - http://www.theblogmire.com/led-by-the-science-towards-a-medical-despotism/

I completely agree.

I believe in the scientific method. It is both valid and useful. But it cannot answer all questions, and so-called rockstar scientists should stay in their lanes and stop telling us how to live our lives. A PhD in physics does not make you a philosopher or a jurist.

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