Challenging ‘Scientific Authority’ Upsets Leftists
They claim it’s all about the “science,” but in reality, this is a high-stakes game about who has the authority to impose their will on the rest of us.
The New York Times has some dire news: President Donald Trump hates science and medicine.
“The Trump administration has opened investigations into admissions policies at three major medical schools,” the Times reports, “expanding the federal government’s pressure campaign beyond campus culture and taking aim at the heart of scientific authority in the United States.”
Yikes — that’s bad.
Or is it?
The Times says, “The Justice Department on Wednesday informed Stanford University, the Ohio State University and the University of California, San Diego, about the investigations and demanded that the schools turn over extensive lists of data by April 24 or risk interruptions to essential federal funding.”
Several alarming paragraphs into the story, the Times finally quotes Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, who explains what this is actually all about: “At this time, our investigation will focus on possible race discrimination in medical school admissions.”
The Left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies are inherently racist, so when they’re applied to admissions at schools receiving (a lot of) federal money, of course the DOJ’s civil rights division should look into it. Harvard University has been the big name at the center of racist admissions practices. The Ivory Tower flagship lost at the Supreme Court and has been locked in a battle with the Trump administration for the last year.
Obviously, such racist practices — specifically, favoring blacks and Hispanics at the expense of whites and Asians — are prevalent throughout academia.
Yet the Times editorialized in the first paragraph that this is “taking aim at the heart of scientific authority in the United States.”
Cry me a river. This is the same “scientific authority” that gave us every bogus response to the COVID pandemic. That included masking (even outside), made-up six-foot distance requirements, and grossly overselling the efficacy of novel vaccines while downplaying the risks. All sorts of things were closed because of these “scientific” authorities and their hocus pocus. Schoolchildren arguably lost the most. But all of us suffered economic upheaval from supply chain disruptions and government-induced inflation, as well as relational strains that included (and in many cases still include) broken families and friendships.
This is the same “scientific authority” that advocates upending everything for the sex cult. The groomers say we should completely turn children over to the slightest bit of gender pathology, giving them new names, clothes, hormones, and even body parts, all in the name of “The Science™”. These clowns treat biological sex like a garment to wear instead of an immutable trait. That’s why the American Medical Association — run by graduates of the programs at hand in the Times report — is more concerned with gender “inclusion” than cancer.
This is also the same “scientific authority” that foists left-wing government mandates on us in the name of fighting climate change. They may not openly embrace the anti-human lunacy of the late Paul Ehrlich, but they operate on his assumptions about humanity. We can’t believe them when the goalposts keep moving, much less agree with them on the alleged cure.
That is by no means a comprehensive list, and yet I’m supposed to be upset that the Trump administration is messing with this authority?
Naturally, the Times treats it as political — I suppose because everything is political to the Left: “The government’s investigations into higher education during the past year have in part been aimed at tilting the political balance of academia, which President Trump views as hostile to his brand of conservatism.”
Wrong again. Trump is not an ideologue, which should be blindingly obvious to everyone by now. He wants and pursues what makes sense and what works. Masking outside, transing the kids, and taxpayer-funded wind farms don’t make sense or work. Neither does favoring one race over another for admission to medical school.
Without meaning to, the Times gave the game away by lamenting the challenge to “authority.”
You see, this isn’t about truth or facts or science or medicine at all. It’s about who gets to decide what those things mean — who has the authority. In the same way “social” distorts the meaning of “justice,” “scientific” in this case is nothing more than a contorting modifier to the real issue of “authority.”
