consensus as cathedral, peer review, evidence based science

Consensus as Cathedral: How Peer Review Built Walls Over Truth

Academia has failed, not because people suddenly grew stupider (no, that would be too simple, too comforting), but because of peer review and that solemn, almost liturgical phrase, “evidence-based” science. And yet… did it truly “fail”? I suspect it did not fail at all. It succeeded, succeeded at the very thing it was designed to do, though no one will …

cogsec mind virus

The Catastrophe of the Postmodern Mind

We’ve heard no shortage, since about 2005, about the forces that threaten civilization. First it was climate collapse. Then terrorism. Weapons of mass destruction. The axis of evil. Economic collapse. Then the virus. Then lockdowns. Misinformation, then disinformation. Inflation, then deflation. Authoritarianism. Populism. Capitalism. Socialism. Fascism. Communism. Billionaires. The poor. Blacks. Whites. China. Russia. Iran. The continuation of the wars, …