Certain words can evoke strong emotional responses. Persons with specific agendas they wish to promulgate can over and over again speak those evocative words toward the goal of imposing thought manipulation on undiscerning listeners. Two of those words are "Constitutional" and "Science".
The terrible events of January 6, 2021 at the United States Capitol were accompanied by repeated shouts of "Constitutional" by those who sought to disregard the very document whose name they had sought to usurp. If just one official here or one person there had chosen to comply on that day with the shouted demands being directed their way, it is possible that I would today be enjoined from presenting this essay to you and if somehow I got it out anyway, it is possible that you would be enjoined from reading it.
Just to note, my LinkedIn group called "Analog Developments" is no longer viewable in China. It has been blocked there and I do not know what writing(s) triggered that censorship.
Yes, we really did come that close.
There is a scene in the Woody Allen movie "Stardust Memories" where this lanky young guy with shoulder length hair and super-sloppy clothes whines to some similarly coiffed and clad companions:
"Science has fay-y-y-y-l-e-d."
Since science describes every aspect of the physical world, that portrayal was of an attitude of total defeatism, but that scene presented just one example of abuse of the word itself.
There are those who invoke the word "Science" to put forth fallacies. When Richard Nixon appointed Edward E. David, Jr. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_E._David_Jr.) as his presidential science advisor, Mr. David eventually resigned from that appointment citing "disappointment that his advice had not been heeded." (New York Times, January 3, 1973)
My recollection is that Nixon had told his advisor what government policies Nixon had already decided upon and that it was his advisor's task to present the "Science" that would justify those already made decisions. To Nixon, what the actual scientific truths might have been was not important.
The so-called "Science" via which it has been asserted that the Apollo moon landings were faked, via which it has been asserted that there is no such thing as evolution, via which it has been asserted that climate change is "a hoax", via which it has been asserted that intelligence follows racially related bell curve distributions and so forth has caused and will likely continue to cause terrible things to happen.
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