What are three areas in which we are asked/demanded to accept a "scientific consensus" instead of - and even in contradiction of - actual science?
1) Global Warming
Global warming is fully supported by science.
2) Various COVID measures
mRNA vaccines work and are fully supported by medical science. Dexamethasone, Remdesivir and Baricitinib work and are fully supported by medical science. The same cannot be said for hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, insulin, zinc, vitamin C or the injection of bleach into the body. Treatments are accepted by medical science when they are demonstrated to be safe and effective. Treatments are rejected by medical science when they are shown to be ineffective and/or dangerous.
3) Transgenderism for children
There is a very small percentage of newborns who have indeterminant or misidentified gender. Denying those children proper, mainstream medical care is simply ignorant barbarism.
We're not asked to accept any consensus about the earth being round, or about the theory of relativity, for example.
You most certainly are. Scientific consensus is simply another name for accepted science.
Instead, we are told easy ways that we can prove to ourselves, that the world is round, and we are told of multiple experiments, replicated multiple times that show that relativity is a more likely explanation for what we experience as gravity than Newton's postulated force of gravity.
There are easy ways to show that the world is not flat but they do not reveal its actual shape (oblate spheroid). And there are thought experiments that lead us to relativity but no actual experiments that you could conduct in your kitchen. What you're saying here is that we should only believe simple science. An enormous proportion of the world's scientific knowledge is NOT simple and is NOT intuitive or obvious or easily reasoned. That is why scientific research, scientific studies, scientific publications are conducted by very intelligent people who work very hard at it. It's not easy and rejecting global warming because YOU don't seem to understand it has no validity at all.
Global warming theory rarely makes predictions anymore
Bullshit.
each one having been fallen by that wayside as deadlines for the direly predicted catastrophes come and go
Bullshit.
Even at that, if someone insists that the Earth is flat, or if someone still believes in the "force of gravity" as many do, there is no movement to cancel them, or other wise sanction them in order to force them to either be silent or come in line with the dogma.
There is precisely the same reaction in all such cases: the educated public will conclude that your someone is ignorant.
What do the three ideas above have in common? They are all part of a highly agendized set a political beliefs.
Bullshit. They are the conclusions of mainstream science. Politicians may make all manner of use of them, but the findings of science do not have political intent. The reality of global warming, the effectiveness of vaccines and the fact that not all newborns have clear cut genders are true inside every nation on this planet no matter the form of their government. They have NOTHING to do with politics.
No coincidence that global warming alarmists concentrate their ire and their expectations exclusively on the U.S.
How do you get this stupid? Americans have more concern about the US because it's our nation and as a democracy, we're in control of it and thus responsible for it's actions (like Trump's idiocy). In general, on the topic of global warming, scientists and activists are concerned about the choices and actions of all nations. The Kyoto protocol, the Rio declaration and the Paris accords were not unilateral US products but agreed plans of action between all the nations of the planet.
giving far greater polluters like China, India, and Russia, a pass. Not only giving them a pass but shifting the production of carbon to them, which they are glad to take, seeing how profitable it is.
Paanoid jingoistic bullshit
No coincidence that so many measures taken against COVID fit so neatly into the Democratic agenda.
I am really curious what vaccinations, masks, distancing and avoiding crowds have to do with any Democratic agenda
Gay bath houses allowed to remain open, with churches threatened if they held services in their parking lot, with worshipers remaining in their cars.
Did the CDC specifically state that gay bath houses were okay? Were you expecting them to give waivers to religious organizations? And, again, what does even that have to do with any Democratic agenda?
Election rules re-written in ways that favored those willing to use mail-in and mass drop off of ballots to cheat.
Election rules were not re-written to enable cheating; you have zero evidence to support that or that the increased use of mail-in ballots led to any increase in voter fraud in any state of the union. Mail-in and absentee balloting was encouraged to prevent the spread of a deadly, communicable disease.
Ivermectin scorned and ridiculed for no other reason than that Trump spoke favorably of it.
Ivermectin, used to treat parasitic worms, has been floated as a potential COVID-19 treatment, but research does not support its use. A study
published March 4 found it did not shorten the time someone had symptoms of COVID-19. The National Institutes of Health says it can
neither recommend nor suggest against using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19, while the FDA
strongly recommends against using the drug, particularly in the form designed to be used in animals.
Now that so much evidence is piling up on the effectivess of Ivermectin, what do you think of the apology from the scorners?
What evidence? What apology?
Sincere, but begrudging? Insincere? Oh . . . non-existent, that's right.
Good. There was never anything to apologize for.
Results of the study of the antiparasitic medication, once a much-discussed potential treatment for COVID-19, were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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This platform randomized clinical trial examines the effectiveness of ivermectin at a targeted dose of 600 μg/kg daily compared with placebo for the treatment of early mild to moderate COVID-19.
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A Cochrane meta-analysis of 11 eligible trials examining the efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 published through April 2022 concluded that ivermectin has no beneficial effect for people with COVID-19.1 Since May 2022, an additional 3 large randomized clinical trials including...
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Using the Drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19 can be dangerous and even lethal. The FDA has not approved the drug for that purpose.
www.fda.gov
PLATCOV, a platform to assess the effectiveness of drugs against COVID-19, suggests that ivermectin has no significant antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2.
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As with global warming, the "scientific consensus" that chemical castration of children saves lives, as does double mastectomies of healthy teenage breasts comes entirely from the "scientists" who profit from such ghasty procedures.
I have never heard anyone suggest that chemical castration of children saves lives. Chemical castration is a temporary effect in any case and is widely used in the treatment of prostate cancer. I've neither heard of any suggesting mastectomies of healthy breasts unless you're talking about women with mutated BRCA-1 or-2 genes who have very high likelihoods of developing malignant breast tumors. So, as has been the case in every statement you've made so far: you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
There is certainly consensus among those profiteers, but the science comes down to a single "study" of a self-selected survey designed to get the desired results.
The science of global warming is supported by thousands and thousands of peer-reviewed studies conducted and written by tens of thousands of degreed scientists from every nation in the world. If you're talking about consensus studies, there have been many and they show support for the IPCC conclusions to be extremely close to completely unanimous.
You're a fucking idiot.