If you don't believe that scientism has replaced the foundations of open-minded inquiry that used to be science, Bring me any biology or physics textbook, and I'll show you how it is being done, somewhere in the first few pages.
For example, a text titled simply 'Biology' (Sylvia S. Mader, 1987) contains this astounding paragraph on scientific method on page 11:
Book review: The Reason You Walk by Wab Kinew (Penguin Group, 2015) (5/5 stars)
Imagine that you're almost seventy years old. Throughout those years you've lived what would be considered a normal, happy life, having grown strong family ties, and having built close community relationships.
One day, in an instant, your world is turned upside down and inside out, when you find out that your entire life has been based on a mistake.
If someone tries to tell you that there are just two kinds of people in this world, don't believe them. Whatever those "two kinds" may be, they are almost always just two extremes of a range of possibilities. There is only one kind of person, although we come in different models, styles, shapes and sizes. Any character trait has is opposite, but almost everyone falls somewhere in between. All traits of personalities are potentially present in each of us to some degree. Every genius is part idiot; every idiot is part genius.
Alexei Navalny, for years the greatest potential threat to Vladimir Putin's corrupt, iron-clad, despotic regime, died last week in a Siberian prison camp under very suspicious circumstances. He was in seemingly good health and good spirits right up until he went for a walk in the camp's yard, where he suddenly collapsed and died.
Although NATO may not be the worst alliance ever conceived, it probably deserves most of the criticism that has been leveled against it. But this post is not about NATO.
This is about that orange-haired, self-declared "stable genius" Donald Trump, who, referring to some NATO members not meeting their defense spending targets, recently proclaimed, "You gotta pay! You gotta pay your bills!"
Well, NATO doesn't send out bills or issue invoices. It sets targets. For whatever reasons, only 11 out of 31 members achieved those goals.
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