The Tyranny of the Scideolgists

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Secularists have changed tactics in the war against Christian society and especially against the family.  We are now faced with the tyranny of so-called scientific experts.  Most public policy can be advanced so long as it is sanctioned by “leading authorities” with academic credentials to give it credibility.  The usage of “sanctioned” is intentional – it shares the same Latin root as the word sanctify – and the policies being advanced by secularists reveal their creed and dogma.  Look no further than the transgender agenda for a vivid realization of the secularist religion.

This article simply reinforces what you already know – people’s intellects don’t work properly (no matter how many letters follow their name) if they’re not ordered to Truth in its fullness in the Catholic faith.  We must test, double-check, and confirm everything we are told and push back against propaganda, manipulation, and outright falsehoods.

This is the moral landscape of the spiritual and corporeal battle of our time.  It’s worth understanding our opposition as best as we can.

First, the obligatory disclaimer.  This article is not anti-science.  The human benefits provided through authentic science are God-given blessings.  This article affirms the Catholic principle of Faith and Reason and illustrates how, without faith, our reason (e.g. scientific inquiry) is hopelessly darkened.

How We Got Here

Until recently the secularists relied on the New Atheists (think Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris) as their standard-bearers.  The problem, for the secularists, was that the New Atheists tended to rely on a combination of philosophy and science and actually engaged theists in debates.  Most times they were shrewd enough to debate amateurs.  But on occasion, they faced up against someone who knew his stuff and they were roundly defeated (Christopher Hitchens v John Lennox is a lively illustration of this).

The secularists have decided to make an end-run and not even engage in dialogue (this is the age of cancel culture after all).  They have leapfrogged their failing attempts to win over public sentiment with debate and its messy intermingling of logic, philosophy, theology, and science.  They now have sufficient influence to guide the media narrative and ramrod public policy based on “pure” science.

From the secularist position, it’s a great hand to play.  As they have framed it – only what is “data-driven,” “fact-based,” and “scientific consensus,” has a place in the public square.  Who wants to be anti-data, anti-fact, and anti-science?  It solves the problem of having to debate faith-based Neanderthals.  Religion has no place in public dialogue because there’s no scientific proof of God.  We do, by the way, have scientific arguments to make for God, but by definition, the secularists won’t accept them.

The Emergence of the Scideologist

In a prior Catholic Stand article, I affirm the suspicion of many that the secularists are on a quest to create endless crises so that they have a great moral cause to justify taking control of every facet of life.  The end goal of that control is to usher in transhumanism.

The primary lever of the secularists is science.  In fact, science is their only tool and serves as a lever, catalyst, scalpel, battering ram, and coming soon, the guillotine.

One of the many problems the secularists face is that they rarely have legitimate science on their side.  But they’ve managed to clear that hurdle in a single bound.  They don’t actually need science.  They only need their nutty theories sanctioned by authorities and experts (which sort of sounds like principalities and powers).  And of those, they have a bumper crop.

But a scientist who doesn’t actually follow the scientific method isn’t a scientist.  He’s an ideologist.  For our purposes, we’ll call this confused creature a Scideologist.

Let’s look at how the secularist cultural elites employ scideology with everyone’s favorite cultural cyanide to examine how shamelessly manipulated and sometimes out-right fraudulent science has been used to sanction the gutting of our society via the Wuhan virus.  The same principle applies to all of the secularist global-reset issues.

Change the Definitions to Get the Data You Desire

The World Health Organization (WHO) revised its definition of herd immunity, removing reference to natural herd immunity.  WHO apologists will claim, of course, that they advance pro-vaccination policies because that is where the science leads.

Herd Immunity (initial):  indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through the previous infection.

Herd Immunity (revised):  “’herd immunity’, also known as ‘population immunity’, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached.”

There has been an alteration of the definitions of “pandemic” and “vaccination” – in this case making them more general, and thus malleable to serve public policy preferences.

And there have been similar meddling with the method of tracking fatalities.  The CDC issued new covid-specific death tabulation guidelines on March 24, 2020.  Had ordinary flu tracking guidelines been used, the fatality data would have been at least half the reported number (e.g. 250,000 deaths instead of 500,000) and as little as 6% (e.g. 30,000 deaths instead of 500,000).  Or, looked at differently, the 2017-2018 flu season had approximately 65,000 reported fatalities.  If March 24, 2020, CDC tabulation guidelines had been used, it has been estimated that the tabulated death toll would have been many times higher, with hundreds of thousands of deaths.

Pushing a Scientific “Narrative”

Perhaps the most glaring abuse of science was the fraudulent hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) study, published in the Lancet.  That study derailed HCQ treatment of the Wuhan virus.  The article was completely retracted, but the damage was done.  To this day HCQ is widely disparaged despite its demonstrated effectiveness.  The Lancet is a premier medical journal, a complete retraction of a study that important is nearly unheard of.

On the flip side, a legitimate and robust study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of mask mandates (the so-called “Danish study”).  The results were not favorable for advocates of the face diaper.  This study, despite its academic rigor, was turned down for consideration by the leading medical journals (like the Lancet).  It would seem the strategy is this – so long as the leading scientific journals don’t accept your paper (whether or not it has merit), then your problematic data and findings can be excluded, and the “consensus” of the scideologists is maintained.  Think of it as a scientific version of the baby game – if I cover my hands with my eyes and can’t see you, you’re no longer there.

You Get the Science You Pay For

That vast majority of basic scientific research is conducted by universities and funded by grants from the government and a small number of private foundations (like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation).  For a host of reasons, the funding is predominantly directed to research that favors secularist ideologies (anthropogenic climate change, transgenderism, etc).  There is an inherent bias in the research to establish support for certain conclusions.

There is also a bias to disregard certain avenues of inquiry.  You can expect little funding for research that investigates the negative impact of mask-wearing and lockdowns on early childhood development (to the extent that the research is done, it will be colored by the presupposition that the masks and lockdowns were necessary).  Likewise, you can expect very little funding on the impact of elevated blood acid levels on renal function (a potential side-effect of long-term mask usage).  Or, on the negative long-term effects of the so-called vaccines.  With that, the scideologist will be able to make statements such as “there is no consensus on this issue” and “there is no indication of adverse effects.”

Flood the Zone and Stay on Message No Matter the Facts

Once the opinions of the scideologists are dialed in, the secularist puppet masters get to work “flooding the zone” – overwhelming the public with their chosen message so that any dissenting opinions are choked out.

Sticking with the topic of masks, the CDC has now confirmed that mask mandates, by their own data, accounted for a paltry 1.9% improvement in fatality rates (with a 1% margin of error).  The CDC has every motivation to skew those numbers as positively as they can.  The best they come up with is 1.9%?  But the CDC stayed on message and reported this as a positive affirmation of masks and that gets parroted by the media.  Here’s an article deceptively titled “CDC Study Finds Mask Mandates Reduced COVD-19 Cases and Deaths.”

These days most people just skim headlines and all they see are a flood of headlines proclaiming the pro-covid message.  A scant few will read the details to discover a paltry 1.9% decrease, and then weigh that against the cost of masking and lockdowns.   Consider the explosion of unintended (or intended?) consequences in terms of online porn addiction, chemical addiction, depression, domestic violence, suicide, collateral illness, financial ruin, untold mental health damage for younger generations, poverty-induced death in the third world, and on and on.

Another example – Iowa maintained minimal mask and lockdown requirements, to which the Atlantic reported, “Experts expect to see a spike in COVID-19 cases in the state roughly one week from now, two weeks after the Thanksgiving holiday. That spike will likely precede a surge in hospitalizations and, eventually, a wave of new deaths…”  The spike never materialized.  Who even were the “experts”?  It doesn’t matter.  “Expert” is one of those talismanic words used to sanction public policy, and once again the “zone was flooded” with one more gloom and doom headline.

Flooding the zone has proven to be an effective tactic to sway people’s thinking.  Here’s a bit of science you won’t hear in the mainstream media, from a legitimate scientific study – “Moralization of COVID-19 Health Response:  Asymmetry in Tolerance for Human Costs.”  A sample group in New Zealand was presented with two hypothetical approaches – one based on lockdowns that would eliminate the virus but with substantial collateral suffering, and the other that was anti-lockdowns and would have greater suffering from the virus but less collateral suffering.

The total amount of human suffering was always the same, it was just a matter of whether it was caused by viruses or lockdowns.  The “asymmetry of tolerance” that the researchers found was that the participants were consistently more willing to accept suffering caused by lockdowns and to discredit approaches that were anti-lockdown even if there were no quantitative justification.

They also found, “Our results also provide insight into the individual-level factors that may exacerbate the asymmetries we observed: 1) personal fear of contracting the virus, and 2) political ideology.  Across our two studies, both those who more strongly feared contracting the virus and those who more strongly identified as liberal exhibited widened asymmetries, as well as greater moral outrage.”

Who can doubt the covid-is-worse-than-anything message has succeeded in swaying most people into seeing covid as the single greatest moral and societal issue of our time.

The Spiritual Subtext

We could go with similar examples of manipulation of public sentiment on every major issue facing society: immigration, climate, transgender, race, communism, etc.  They have all been co-opted by the scideologists (especially their high priests, the “social scientists”).

In a secular world, people would rather have the illusion of control even if it means greater misery and political enslavement, rather than freely accepting the risks and responsibilities that come with life and laying it all at the foot of the cross.

Wisdom tells us – “For the witchery of paltry things obscures what is right, and the whirl of desire transforms the innocent mind.”  (Wis 4:12)  What is the data and analysis of the scideologists if not the witchery of paltry things?  And how quickly we grasp on the promise of control through easy solutions.

St. Paul tells us

You should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth (Eph 4:22-24).

Without our minds renewed in the Truth that is Christ, we are bewitched by paltry things.  Thus is the plight of the scideologists and all who follow them.

The real and present danger in all of this isn’t whether or not we die from a virus (as bad as that may be).  The issue is whether people are drawn down the road of trusting the wisdom of man over the foolishness of God, to the point that they put their souls in jeopardy.  And that is exactly what is happening.  For starters, how many people have been scared away from the Eucharist and the confessional?  How many young lives will be horribly damaged by the false science of transgenderism?  How many abortions will be carried out in the name of “women’s health”?

What to Do?

One helpful undertaking (also for our own faith) is to know our miracles.  Eucharistic miracles.  Marian miracles.  Near-death experiences.  There are many compelling miracles documented in our faith, and they are a great way to make someone think twice about whether science alone accounts for all of reality.

It’s incumbent on us to know where to find good sources of information.  This is no small task.  It’s part of the burden of being people of faith – “Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope,” includes defending how faith and reason apply to the issues of the day.  Here are a few examples relative to the Wuhan virus: statistics and public policy (Rational Ground, Catholic Vote), health data regarding therapeutics and so-called vaccines (America’s Frontline Doctors, FLCCC Alliance), moral issues (Crisis Magazine, Sensus Fidelium), general sources (American Institute for Economic Research, most anything by Tom Woods, Alex Berenson, Ivor Cummins, Ian Miller, Phil Kerpen, and Cathy Stein).

Most important are prayer and sacrifice.  Pray for God to raise up faithful scientists (and politicians).  If you know a scientist – pray for them specifically.

And by all means, pray for the conversion of all scideologists – the ones who are bewitched.

Pray and sacrifice for them, but do not trust a word they say.

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8 thoughts on “The Tyranny of the Scideolgists”

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  3. It would also help if we as Christians would stop discrediting the Bible by buying into the highly insidious lie of evolutionary pseudo science. A quick Google search will show that it’s based on 5 unproven assumptions and biblical literacy will show that God created us, and not from goo or monkeys. He also did it all in six regular days. Check out Genesis Apologetics for a lot more if you’re sceptical. In the risen Christ, Andrew

    1. an ordinary papist

      It’s funny how all great food looks like “goo” before someone bakes it to perfection..

    2. Thanks Andrew – and I appreciate the recommendation for Genesis Apologetics.

      And thanks (not-so-)Ordinary Papist. Very true. And who provided the “goo” in the first place?

    3. Your ignorance of the science involved in evolutionary theory is concerning. This is what gives Christians a bad name – mindless parroting of species and non-scientific arguments.

    4. Dear Alix,

      I didn’t make any “specific” claims or denouncements of evolution that support your mindless parroting comment, unless of course you think my comments about goo and monkeys support what you said. However, if you would be willing to debate this like a rational and reasonable adult then I am willing to do so. If not, then I hope you are willing and able to dive further into this very important topic so you can realize and get behind how important it is for your salvation or lack-there-of.

      Atheist and modernists want to play fast and loose with the Bible from the beginning, just like I used to, because it is more important for most of us to receive praise and acceptance from men rather than God. In doing so, we put the entire Bible up for grabs and turn His revealed word into a salad bar buffet where we can pick and choose what we like, what feels good and is easy to follow (without push back from the world), rather than submitting ourselves to God and His Truth, the only real Truth, and allowing the uncomfortable lack of acceptance by others to be part of our transformative redemption with Him and His Son, Jesus. The choice, like with all things, is ours, but this one has eternal consequences and should not be taken lightly.

      If you do not believe that, then please honestly ask yourself how seriously you take the rest of the Bible, and apply it to your life, when you are willing to think that the first chapters of it are false?!

      In Christ,
      Andrew

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