Eternal Skepticism For The Educated Mind

Found this great article on Natural News. Inside is a nice little list on how to become an Uber Skeptical Scientist.

Step 1: Get a lobotomy

This is easier to accomplish than you think. As full-frontal lobotomies are still being carried out today in the psychiatric industry (although they aren't called lobotomies anymore), all you have to do is act like you have a psychiatric disorder, and before long, they'll carry you away for "treatment." How can you fake a psychiatric disorder? It's simple: Just publicly declare your opposition to vaccines, and you'll be considered absolutely looney.

Step 2: Go to medical school

It's important that you complete step one by getting a lobotomy before proceeding to step two and going to med school. You won't survive in med school if your entire brain is intact, because you might accidentally think for yourself. It's best to enter the school with a mental handicap that's just severe enough to prevent you from engaging your own thinking skills but not so severe that you can't regurgitate the new propaganda being taught to you. You still have to pass their academic tests, after all.

Step 3: Start a non-profit funded by drug companies

This is the fun part: Just start a non-profit and give it some innocent-sounding name like "Consumers for Free Choice" or "Science for a Better World" and then hit up all the wealthy drug companies for millions of dollars in donations, promising to push their pro-drug agenda onto the public.

Step 4: Start issuing official press releases

Once your non-profit is up and running, start issuing press releases about how scientifically illiterate celebrities are, or how dangerous vitamins are, or how many lives could be saved with yet more screening for "adults with ADHD." It hardly matters what you say; the mainstream media will reprint your press releases as fact, not even bothering to fact-check a single statement you make. You might even get on DrudgeReport, who has now become a pusher of the Big Pharma agenda by spreading lies about "scientific illiteracy."

Step 5: Proclaim your position to be non-debatable

Here's the best part of all this: Once you decide on a position to defend -- such as supporting mandatory vaccinations of all teenage girls, or supporting the wearing of pink flowery thong underwear by all medical personnel -- simply declare it to be the "inarguable truth" and refuse to debate anyone on scientific grounds.

I think scientists are skeptical by nature. This cynicism, however, is adopted, not intuitive. I like this article cause it accurately describes why the average joe, and even health advocates, are clueless about health science in general.

Enjoy

-Dev

[edit on 29-12-2008 by DevolutionEvolvd]