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Rightful Freedom's avatar

This is a link to a complaint by one of the most popular YouTube physicists (the video was published 11 days ago and has had 1.9 million views). She reiterates some of the issues discussed in this review. I can't have too much sympathy for her, though; she is physicalist who, for example, denies the existence of free will, in favor of reductionist determinism.

And she says that "taxpayers" are funding the system, but never acknowledges that various forms of government control of science are (IMO) the source of most of the problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKiBlGDfRU8

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The problem with modern science is that it's neither modern nor science. It was and always has been a tool for political, economic, and cultural control of the masses. As Plato supposedly stated, 'He who tells the stories rules society.'

If you go back to the origins of modern science, you end up in Florence in the late 15th century. What you find there is the rapid growth of astrology and, in particular, natal astrology across Europe. It was big business in those days and very lucrative for those who reached the top. It may also be why Pico della Mirandola was murdered, as he wrote a blistering attack on astrology shortly before his death. The astrologers served princes with their nonsense and made fortunes out of it. You will also notice one common feature that most of them share. Practically all of these people were highly interested in astronomy AND cartography. Why? To be the best at natal astrology, you need to know precisely where the client was located when he was born and how the planets and stars were configured at that exact time.

Georg von Peuerbach, Johannes Müller (Regiomontanus), Johannes Schöner, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Johannes Kepler, et al. were all first and foremost astrologers and believers in kabbalistic/hermetic/neopythagorean number mysticism, aka gobbledegook. Go and read 'Mysterium Cosmographicum' or 'Harmonices Mundi' and then tell me Kepler was a scientist. This cabal substituted natural philosophy with triangles and geometry, the truth for fiction. This is why we now believe so much that is so wrong. Everything you thought you knew is false.

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