#66170 by Dr. Richard Blackmoor on 4/24 at 4:55 pm: “...To the first poster who denigrates science..it is what makes modern life possible ......”

Well, that’s really cute. Why was there ever a Nobel peace prize? Surely not because of what the military/industrial complex did with what science gave it!

Now that we have all those scientific discoveries killing bees (and humans), we still have to trust them to tell us which one! 

Just as well, then, that scientists are not like lawyers or they would tell us that it was “an act of god” and wash their hands of the consequences!

No, science is not “a method for determining reality” as its practitioners have their own delusions. Infallibility, grandeur, invincibility and so on. Who invented the H-bomb - not a scientist?

With science, humans could thus die in the billions from WMD’s of one sort or another. Yes, all things are possible, even the deaths of billions of bees!

Dr. Richard Blackmoor (#66170) is no doubt entirely sincere in his positive characterizations of scientific methodology, as well as firm in his beliefs about its matchless efficacy.  That this old Indian does not share these enthusiasms, and in fact has substantial doubts (based on a lifetime of actual experience and observation) about their fundamental validity, is certainly a matter-of-record here on “truthdig” and elsewhere.

Applied science hasn’t simply made “....modern life possible.”  It has made it inevitable and virtually inescapable.  Of course the same is true of modern death, and the myriad of worse fates overtaking the experimental subjects who are for the most part the un- or ill- or dis-informed (and thus non-consensual) participants in what is today a “global” science project….a clear violation of what is supposed to be the most binding tenet of scientific ethics.

Science is not “....a method for determining reality,” and even if it was it is hardly “....the only one.”  Science as such is only a systematized and abstract arrangement for making and recording and reporting measurements of a world that both pre-dates the development of and exists entirely independent from the methodology itself. 

Looking to science as the only possible deliverer of salvation, from scientifically contrived circumstances right this minute threatening “....the billions,” a mere handful of them human, certainly puts Dr. Blackmoor in….well, abundant company there in his “modern” world.  He professes his faith in the methodology succinctly when he claims, “With science all things are possible.”  That is itself a proposition without a shred of scientific evidence to support it….making the assertion more religiossification than anything else.

Us free wild natural human beings might not qualify for the elite echelons of “the scientific community.”  After all, it’s just plain old common sense that tells us it’s much too soon to declare “Science” the runaway winner in some make-believe contest supposed to determine the one and only way to know Life Herownself….especially as those addicted to that method regularly reveal that they don’t really know Her at all.

HokaHey!

Millions of Bees Die - Are Electromagnetic Signals To Blame?  http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/03/06/millions_of_bees_die_are_electromagnetic_signals_to_blame.htm

Mystery of the dying bees http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1087

Bee Man’s Worry: Colony Collapse   http://forager.newsvine.com/_news/2007/04/09/655036-bee-mans-worry-colony-collapse-

So the same “applied science” that has decimated not only Honeybees, but Salmon and so many others of our relatives who once gave-away freely to humankind, is supposed to come-up now with a cure for yet another of the multitude of ills for which its religiossified over-reliance, on the part of the domesticated peoples, is the proximate cause?  This old Indian wonders what Albert Einstein, perhaps the “signature” scientist of the age, would say about a behavioral pattern that keeps its adherents going again and again to the same poisoned well for a “remedy” to the very problems that’ve come about from drinking so heavily from its toxic “waters” to begin with.  Wait a minute.  Isn’t that Einstein’s own definition of insanity?

So now one cohort of papered professional experts will rush heroically into the breach blown in the “ecosphere” by friendly fire from their brothers and sisters in-arms. Weaponry will be scientifically devised and tested and deployed to attack and destroy whatever micro-organism comes to be blamed for what this time may prove to be a degree of devastation rivalling that of the civilized breeds theirselfs.

Check out the Bill Maher take on this, just across the homepage here.  Then give at least a moment’s consideration to the now nearly dead-certain prospect that whatever “science” throws-up in response to the Bee problem will shortly have “unintended side-effects” of its own orders-of-magnitude worse than the already “....end of the world as we know it” consequences staring tame two-leggeds in the face today. 

It is in the very nature of Nature that any statement of a “problem” must have within it all the terms necessary to its “solution.”  If even the most seemingly insignificant of these is missing no real definitive answer is possible.  That random collection of over-specialized “individuals” who like to be referred (and deferred) -to as “the scientific community” is itself woefully ill-equipped to do anything at this point but make much worse the mess all their half-assed and arrogant fucking-around with the Living Arrangement has already put them, and their science-worshipping herds of “laymen” (a term applied also to those not of the “inner sanctum” in the many other “mystery” religions), inextricably (at least by their own devices) into.  Not knowing just exactly what it is they’re looking at, the conclusions they continue witlessly jumping-to consistently lead them all down a road ending in what (from their almost exclusively homocentric and self-serving point-of-view) will be correctly felt as a conglomeration of (self-inflicted) catastrophes.

But don’t just take this old heathen savage’s word for that.  The redoubtable Sir Albert told everyone decades ago it was coming to this impossible pass….if people didn’t wise-up and try something different, for a change.  So now the civilized nations have reached it….still seeking salvation in revelation (scientific, philosophic, or phantasmagoric).

Those interested in some real good medicine might try the Tiyoshpaye Way of Life Herownself….the HeartSong ‘n’ HoopDance the professional picker-aparters of “science” have no means of ever getting a handle on.

HokaHey!

Frogs are also vanishing all over the world.

We screwed this planet up, royally.

Agreed, Doug.  This is a very flippant take on what is overall a truly disturbing report.

I’m certain that Marine biologists will also have some very distressing news for us as the summer progresses.  All is not well.  And I’m an optimist!

Even bees could not survive in this damned atmosphere
of man made slaughterhouse so how would we ?

Um, isn’t the story here that the bees are having serious problems, which is very, very bad for them AND us?

Who cares about moronic conspiracy theories?