Fake Science
Food Chain Radio Show #1143
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Fake Science
Guest: Veterinarian Will Winter
The following is from William Jennings Bryan at the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial…
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Why Do We Believe Fake Science?
“Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of the storm-tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.”
One more time… “some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.”
In the 1950’s physiologist Dr. Ancel Keyes presented his theory that saturated fats in meat, milk and eggs caused heart disease. He proved his theory with a epidemiological study that came to be known as the “Seven Countries Study.”
America believed Keye’s Seven Countries Study, and his science, and changed its diet from one based on the saturated fats of meat, milk and eggs to one based on the unsaturated fats of grains and vegetable oils.
But instead of becoming heart healthy, we became obese junkies of statin drugs, and died by the millions of heart disease.
Then, after a half century of eating up the science of Dr. Ancel Keyes, we learned that he had faked the science.
But of course, Dr. Ancel Keyes is not the only one to have faked science, or who will fake science. People will always try to fake science to sell us whatever they want to sell us. And so we ask…
Leave a comment below: Why do we continue to believe fake science?
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In your neck of the woods, science has been faked about the eucalyptus, justifying cutting them down and spraying them for years with chemicals to prohibit resprouting. Same can be said for the program to eradicate spartina alterniflora.
So it should not be unexpected that people, even though they probably think that the climate is changing, that they don’t necessarily believe in all the science that is being spouted.