Over the last few decades, our society has gradually devolved into the dire situation where truth is not Truth, facts are not Facts, science is not Science, etc. The negative consequences of this corruption are frightful and mind-boggling.

The public is aware of this, but everywhere they turn for relief, they run into slick self-serving snake oil salespeople, endorsed by mainstream media. Their under-LYING message is: up is down, in is out, left is right — and the hell with God…

The result is that there’s now an unprecedented pent-up need for an unambiguous, user-friendly book to expose their key lies, telling it like it is. It may not be readily apparent, but Science is anti-Americans’ number one target — so the book should coherently explain, in an interesting way, what Science is and is not.

Two major reasons why Science has been very aggressively attacked are:

1. We live in a highly technical society, so the influence of Science is everywhere, on everyone, every day, and
2. Every poll concludes that the public strongly supports Science — yet 95%+ of the public has no idea what Science actually is! This startling dichotomy sets the stage for charlatans to make unscientific claims, as very few will know enough to object. A well-written book could put an end to hundreds of unscientific scams!

Consider a recent powerful example: COVID. By and large, the US government’s COVID policies were political, NOT scientific. The public went along as they were told the opposite (see #2 above). The end result of this charade was that some 500,000 Americans likely died unnecessarily.

That is as many American deaths as in WWI and WWII combined…

Where is the outrage?

Where are the consequences for the guilty?

Where are the actions that will ensure that this will not happen again?

Another (of many) such examples is what is going on in our K-12 schools today. The three R’s (reading, writing, and arithmetic) have all been bastardized. History has been purposefully distorted. Science has been gutted. Merit is a bad word, while Woke ideology is praised. Social Emotional Learning (SEL) has infiltrated almost every classroom, while Judeo-Christian values are scorned. These result in…

And all of these misinformed victims will shortly become VOTING CITIZENS…

Where is the outrage?

Where are the consequences for the guilty?

Where are the actions that will ensure that this will not happen again?

The point here is that writing one powerful book could wake up (and educate) citizens, putting a stake in the heart of this horrific corruption.

What would such a book be about?

Good arguments could be made to go about this in different ways. What jumps out to me is that Science is the most consequential common denominator. If the public had a much better idea of what Science actually is — and the most frequent tricks used by scam artists to deceive the uninformed — then neither of the above two examples would have gotten anywhere near the traction that they achieved.

Such a book should be entertaining light-reading — while simultaneously exposing Science facts and fiction. In a prior commentary, I listed thirty (30) everyday Science matters that the public has been misinformed about. To my knowledge, no book has ever covered all these important deceptions, so this would be groundbreaking. And the audience would be everyone. As such it would be a guaranteed Best Seller.

But there’s more!

The same book should be slightly modified to then be usable as High School and College textbooks! There has never been a Science course (in K-12 or higher-ed) that has covered all these essential points. NEVER! Is there any wonder why so few citizens have a clear grasp of what Science is, and is not?

Let me know any competent, committed authors who appreciate this unique opportunity. (I say authors as one possibility is to have such a book written by a team.)

Of course we need to come up with a catchy book title… (Some examples are: “Science: the Insider’s Handbook” or “Science: From Greed to God”.) All ideas welcome!

Most people reading this will agree that we have some major societal problems — but what are they doing about it? I’m suggesting one practical solution that would have an enormous impact. Let’s make this happen!

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Here are other materials by this scientist that you might find interesting:

My Substack Commentaries for 2023 (arranged by topic)

Check out the chronological Archives of my entire Critical Thinking substack.

WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.

C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.

Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.

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