If you “own” the science, it’s not science.
Science is a process for developing and testing hypotheses and then turning them into workable theories. But the Left and its authoritarian institutions use “science” as just another cult object to uphold their illegitimate authority and bully the people under its control.
Sometimes they’ll even say it out loud.
Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary for Global Communications at the United Nations at WEF ‘Disinformation’ event: “We partnered with Google,” said Fleming, adding, “for example, if you Google ‘climate change,’ you will, at the top of your search, you will get all kinds of UN resources. We started this partnership when we were shocked to see that when we Googled ‘climate change,’ we were getting incredibly distorted information right at the top. So we’re becoming much more proactive. We own the science, and we think that the world should know it, and the platforms themselves also do.”
Melissa Fleming’s scientific background? She has a MA and MS in Broadcast Journalism and a BS in German Studies from Oberlin. The latter at least should come in handy.
I’ve written about the UN’s involvement with Big Tech censorship before.
For example, Facebook is using UN rules to censor conservatives, including Trump.
When Facebook’s Oversight Board issued its verdict on Trump, it did not cite a single item of United States law, including the First Amendment, but cited the Rabat Plan of Action, and articles of the UN’s International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), OHCHR, a UN Special Rapporteur to the Human Rights Council, and the UN’s International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
American law does not apply on Facebook. UN law does.
The Rabat Plan of Action, which Facebook’s Oversight Board used to justify the censorship of President Trump, declares that states are obliged to restrict speech that “amounts to incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence” citing ICCPR articles 19 and 20. The UN’s ICCPR Article 19 allows restricting expression for “the reputations of others” and “public order”. Article 20 orders a ban on “propaganda for war” and the “advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.”
These are a few of the various UN regulations, treaties, and conventions cited by Facebook’s Oversight Board. And while all this may sound like meaningless UN gibberish to most Americans, these UN rules define what you can and can’t say on the internet.
The UN doesn’t own science, but its tyrannical bureaucracy does own speech. Our speech.
Melissa Fleming’s scientific background? She has a BS in German Studies! How telling, following the Nazi textbook
on how to change reality! She might have BS in Marxism from the Frankfurt School. Who knows ?
lolol
Morons who can’t do science themselves.
Its actually a common syndrome, delusional people with weak degrees who think they understand science.
The average leftie wouldn’t recognize science if it came up behind them and bit them on the ass.
Note the definite article, the science. Which is a collection of hypotheses being tested.
I’ll go with the data.
Sorry, the dog ate their raw data.. That would have gotten me laughed out of high school physics, but we pass laws and regulations based on it.
“We own the science” = “We claim the right to censor any scientific opinion that we disagree with and/or which threatens our globalist, totalitarian agenda.” Of course, in reality, censoring dissenting or minority views is the exact opposite of science and – if universally applied – would stop the progression of science in its tracks.
Spot on. Anyone who claims they own the science or the science is settled has never done any scientific research. Only arrogant leftists think in those terms, the rest of us know neither can or will ever be true.
Like Lysenkoism.
My favorite story is that the only scientists to survive Lysenkoism to the end of Stalin’s reign were some nuclear physicists, because Stalin wanted the bomb so badly that he put up with them.
The even managed to survive Stalin’s putting the very motivational Beria in charge of the program.
” . . . states are obliged to restrict speech that ‘amounts to incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence . . . ‘”
“Amounts to” gives them a lot of leeway. This would cover not only any actual call to violence or explicit threat, but any comment that offends someone or some group. Given the fact that these kinds of rules are ALWAYS enforced arbitrarily, we know exactly who this rule will target – conservatives and Christians – and who will be exempt – the LGBTQ+ movement, Muslims, CRT race-hustlers, and the political left in general.
Antifa, blm, and a host of other violent leftists post whatever they want
So do Muslim organizations and states.
What a conceited popinjay.
The funding for science is controlled and so in a way they do own science. What concerns Fleming is information. If you control the flow of information you control the world. Some dummies haven’t figured that out yet which is why Fleming can get away with this. Besides the fact that dummies trust anybody that come across like Fleming.
Yeah, I was thinking something similar. Whenever a grant became available, the profs at Berkeley would drop everything, and write up a proposal.
I’m sure. Thanks for the insight AA.
Is there any easier or more lucrative job than a professor? I used to break rocks in the desert and take sand grit blown in my eyes and up my ass and then go to night school to have pampered pussies lecture me. I hated every minute of it except for the chicks. College girls were crazy My Spanish teacher, too.
Some professors are cool, though. Victor Davis Hanson and Mr Chips. I had a political science professor who was a great guy, and some German history professor. He said you can smell Germans coming before you see them. I thought that was funny.
Yeah, it’s unbelievable, isn’t it? How are people bamboozled by obvious frauds like Man face?
Man, that tranny guy, Melissa Fleming, sure is ugly.
lol, good one 🙂
Another point just occurred to me. The phrase “we own the science” is like a challenge to start an argument, rather than a scientific statement.
Who will take up the challenge? Anyone with a good brain, scientific knowledge, and outstanding debate skills ought to be able to eat her lunch. And dinner, too.
In a sense, zhe is correct – Fauci is science, and they own Fauci.