Soyence
Not to be confused with [1]science.
{ I did my own peer review of this article and give it 10/10. ~drummyfish
}
Soyence (also spelled soyience) is [2]business, [3]propaganda and
[4]politics trying to pass as [5]science, nowadays promoted typically by
[6]pseudoleftists, [7]pseudoskeptics, [8]capitalists and [9]corporations.
It is what in the [10]21st century has taken on the role that's
historically been played by the church: that of establishing and
maintaining orthodoxy for the control of mass population -- this time it
is so called "science" or "rationality" that's used as the tool instead of
[11]God and religion, however the results are the same. Soyence is not
about listening to what science says, it is about listetning to what
"reputable scientists" say, and of course not questioning them; soyence is
what the typical reddit [12]atheist or [13]tiktok [14]feminist believes
science is or what Neil De Grass Tyson tells you science is. While science
is about collecting facts and drawing conclusions, soyence is about
setting conclusions and finding or fabricating facts that support them.
One red flag to watch out in relation to soyence is a great weight put on
reputation -- in true science reputation plays no role, only results do;
reputation and its great value for one's acceptance is rather part of
[15]politics (and maybe show business). Notice for example how in the past
it was more common to hear "science has found X" (as in "logic itself
shows this fact") rather than "scientists have found X", which is more
common nowadays -- mentally we have shifted to separate people to
"scientists", those who "know" and dictate what's true, and
non-scientists, those who don't know and must just listen. Soyence calls
itself the one and only science^TM and [16]gatekeeps the term by calling
unpopular science (such as that regarding human [17]race, questioning
official versions of [18]historical events or safety of big pharma
[19]vaccines) "[20]pseudoscience" and "[21]conspiracy theories". Soyence
itself is pseudoscience but it has an official status, approval of
[22]state, strong connection to [23]politics, it is mainstream, popular,
controlled by those in power, [24]censored ("moderated") and intentionally
misleading. Soyence can be encountered in much of [25]academia, on
[26]Wikipedia and in other popular/mainstream media such as TV
"documentaries" and [27]YouTube. A soyence supporter wrongfully believes
that reason wouldn't allow such a large scale mass population manipulation
(despite this happening over and over throughout history) -- people at
large aren't reasonable and reason [28]cannot beat [29]propaganda; only
the highest naivety could make you believe that politics will follow
science -- it's the other way around, and always has been.
Compared to good old [30]fun pseudosciences such as [31]astrology and
[32]flat Earth, soyence is extra sneaky by purposefully trying to blend in
with real science, i.e. within a certain truly scientific field, such as
biology, there is a soyentific [33]cancer mixed in by activists,
corporations and state, that may be hard to separate for common folk and
many times even for pros. This is extremely [34]harmful as in the eyes of
retarded people (basically everyone) the neighboring legit science gives
credibility to propaganda bullshit. There is a tendency to think we
somehow magically live in a time that's fundamentally different from other
times in history in which it is now a pretty clear and uncontroversial
fact that the name of science was abused hard by propaganda, almost
everyone easily accepts that historically politically constructed lies
were presented as confirmed by science, but somehow people refuse to
believe it could be the case nowadays. In times of Nazism there was no
doubt about race being a completely scientific term and that Jews were
scientifically confirmed to be the inferior race -- nowadays in times when
anti Nazis have won and politics is based on denying existence of race
somehow scientists start to magically find evidence that no such thing as
race has ever existed -- how convenient! And just in case you wanted to
check if it's actually true, you'll be labeled a racist and you won't find
job ever again.
Soyence uses all the cheap tricks of politics (also not dissimilar to
those of [35]greenwashing, [36]openwashing etc.) to win stupid people, it
builds on the cult of bullying religion and creating a [37]war mentality,
overuse of twisted "rationality" ([38]pseudoskepticism), creating science
[39]bloat and bullshit "scientific" fields to obscure lies, punishment of
the correct use of rationality, building cults of personality ("science
educators", the [40]gatekeepers of "science") and appealing to egoism and
naivity of wannabe smartasses while at the same time not even holding up
to principles of science such as genuine objectivity. A soyence kid will
for example keep preaching about how everything should be proven by
reproducible experiments while at the same time accepting [41]de facto
irreproducible results, e.g. those obtained with billion dollar worth
research performed at [42]CERN which can NOT be reproduced anywhere else
than at CERN with thousands of top scientist putting in years of work.
Such results are not reproducible in practice, they are accepted on the
basis of pure faith in those presenting it, just as religious people
accept the words of preachers. The kid will argue that in theory someone
else can build another CERN and reproduce the results, but that won't
happen in practice, it's just a purely theoretical unrealistic scenario so
his version of what "science" is is really based on reproducibility that
only works in a dreamed up world, this kind of reproducibility doesn't at
all fulfill its original purpose of allowing others to check, confirm or
refute the results of experiments. This starts to play a bigger role when
for example vaccines start to get promoted by the government as "proven
safe by science" (read "claimed safe by a corporation who makes money off
of people being sick"), the soyence kid will gladly accept the vaccine and
[43]fight for their acceptance just thanks to this label, not based on any
truly scientific facts but out of pure faith in self proclaimed science
authorities -- here the soyentist is relying purely on faith, a concept he
would like to think he hates with his soul.
The "[44]citation needed" craziness that indicates lack of any brain and
pure reliance on the word of authority is seen e.g. on [45]Wikipedia.
Wikipedia doesn't accept original research, observation or EVEN LOGIC
ITSELF as a basis for presenting something -- everything, even trivial
claims have to have a "citation" from a source WITH mainstream political
views (unpopular and controversial sources are banned); Wikipedia is
therefore one big propaganda ground for those with power over the
mainstream media.
Soyence relies on low [46]IQ, shallow education and popular "science
education" (e.g. neil de grass), while making its followers believe they
are smart. It produces propaganda material such as "documentaries" with
Morgan Freeman (i.e. people who are good at persuasion rather than being
competent), series like The Big Bang Theory and [47]YouTube videos with
titles such as "Debunking Flat Earth with FACTS AND LOGIC", so there's a
huge mass of [48]NPCs thinking they are Einsteins who blindly support this
cult. Soyence attacks science from within by attacking its core
principles, i.e. it tries to ridicule and punish thinking outside the box
and asking specific questions -- in this it is not dissimilar to a mass
[49]religion.
For the ones who possibly still don't get it, here is a little comparison.
It is good if for now you don't see it as "good" vs "evil" (this is a
separate step, left for later on), just as a comparison of what science is
vs what's politics. The first step is simply to see the difference.
* example of science: "Objects close to Earth dropped in vacuum fall and
accelerate at the same rate no matter their weight. Do whatever you
please with this information. If you don't believe it, check it
yourself. If you find a more accurate law, please let it be known."
* example of NOT science: "This claim has been published in a top
science magazine and reviewed by 100 people each one having 10 PhDs
and 100 science medals, so trust it or you'll be bullied."
Of course, once science advances, it may stop being so simple as for
everyone to be able to for example check the results that scientists
found, that's without doubt, the point is simply that at the stage when
the field starts being a religion, for whatever reason at all, we can no
longer call it science, it is simply religion that evolved from science.
That is all.
Basically with science we can utilize [50]freedom distance to measure "how
much of a science" something is -- here we may define freedom distance as
the average distance to someone who can completely grasp the presented
"science" with ALL that's required, including understanding the results,
verifying the himself and so on. If this distance is within a small
village, we can consider it science; if it's several countries, it is not
science anymore.
Soyence popularizators also like to contaminate science with emotion, with
"stories" and [51]heroes and other kind of bullshit that has no place in
true science: true science is pure rationality, it aims for highest
objectivity possible and to that emotion is an obstacle. Science is a
cold, emotionless tool -- if you don't see [52]beauty in this fact alone,
science is not for you.
Some further examples of soyence:
* [53]gender studies [54]LMAO
* "[55]Race is a SOCIAL CONSTRUCT and doesn't have any biological
meaning."
* any [56]pseudoskeptical shit trying to look "scientific"
* Bullshit degrees, e.g. someone getting [57]PhD in "user experience",
"level design", "diversity in software engineering" or "making youtube
videos" (like that fucker from Veritasium [58]lmao).
* "[59]Women are as intelligent as men, if not more."
* "[60]citation needed" on everything
* "Science popularization" as in building authority of so called
"scientists" so as to create a political capital.
* "This extremely lucrative [61]Covid vaccine made by us in record time
is absolutely safe, don't dare question it, just take it 5 times a
year and pay us each time you do, don't mind any side effects." --Big
Pharma
* "You can't trust your everyday experience or things you see with your
own eyes, only trust our SCIENTISTS, they know better."
* "Science says [62]god doesn't exist." aka reddit [63]atheism
* "We can't believe this because it wasn't peer censored/fact checked
and/or it didn't pass the [64]null ritual and/or it wasn't published
in a journal on our approved literature list." (--[65]Wikipedia)
* "This gender studies expert has proven sex is a racial construct and
has no biological meaning. You disagree? Well, do you have a PhD in
gender studies? No? Then shut up you fucking sexist."
* "This goes against SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS therefore it's pseudoscience
and [66]conspiracy theory."
* "This research is racist.", using terms such as "scientific racism".
* Bullshit "fields" like "ecology communication" and whatnot.
* This guy's research is invalid because in his spare time he makes
videos on ufology and other "conspiracy theories", his REPUTATION AND
CREDIBILITY is destroyed.
* "We should burn these old books that say things we don't like, just in
case. When Nazis did it it was different."
* Strategically setting up experiments and/or cherrypicking facts (as
well as censoring inconvenient counter evidence) so as to achieve
desired results :]]]
* "This research was made by a [67]racist so it is invalid, also we
should [68]lynch the guy just in case."
* Neil de grass/Morgan Freeman "documentaries", emotional "science"
documentaries with famous actors and a lot of "PhD" women talking
heads that make wild gesticulations and excited faces trying to tell
you how EXCITING science is by suggesting there must be alien life
because there are so many planets or by showing you black holes,
explosive chemical reactions etc.
* Deducing cool facts on TV about extinct animals from their skull
shapes is Neil De grass stamp of approval legit thumbs up
paleonthology science yay! :)))) But trying in on humans
([69]phrenology) is a bad bad NONO PSEUDOSCIENCE, neil de grass frown
:(((
* "We can totally trust the results of commercial research. They will be
objective and sincerely publish even results that will ruin their
business because even CEOs are moral people and wouldn't dare lie even
if that should cost them their career."
* "These negative results are useful but unexciting so let's not publish
them, we gotta entertain our readers to stay on the market. We GOTTA
TELL INSPIRATIONAL STORIES with our papers. We have to publish
exciting papers about which we can also make YouTube videos for our
channel." --soyence journals
* "No, you can't research the details of historic events such as
Holocaust. It is declared to have happened like this and if you
suggest otherwise, you go to prison." (see anti [70]Holocaust denial
laws)
* great part of [71]economics
* Ignoring and/or censoring results of unethical or controversial
research, for example the cruel experiment performed by [72]Nazis,
i.e. mixing in political decisions.
* "Feeling sexually attracted to 17.99 years old chick is a serious
mental illness, please consider lobotomy and castration. 18.00 is OK."
* "[73]pedophilia is a mental illness while pure [74]homosexuality is
not"
* ...
Here are a few tips on how to spot soyence:
* Is trust involved? Things like authority of publishers, censorship,
reviews etc.? If so, it is by definition NOT science.
* Is questioning anything at all prevented and/or punished? It is
[75]dogma, not science. True science encourages questioning
EVERYTHING.
* Is emotion involved? Is someone putting energy into promoting it? If
yes, it's probably a preparation of business/politics grounds, not
science.
* Is money involved? Is any form of [76]capital (money, attention,
power, ...) in play? Is there any form of business connected? If so,
it is business, not science.
* Is politics involved? Will the results help some currently active
political group? It's highly suspicious, it almost definitely can't be
trusted, it's most likely not science.
* ...
See Also
* [77]pseudoskepticism
* [78]conspiracy theory
Links:
1. science.md
2. business.md
3. propaganda.md
4. politics.md
5. science.md
6. pseudoleft.md
7. pseudoskepticism.md
8. capitalism.md
9. corporation.md
10. 21st_century.md
11. god.md
12. atheism.md
13. tiktok.md
14. feminism.md
15. politics.md
16. gatekeeping.md
17. race.md
18. history.md
19. vaccine.md
20. pseudoscience.md
21. conspiracy_theory.md
22. state.md
23. politics.md
24. censorship.md
25. academia.md
26. wikipedia.md
27. youtube.md
28. yes_they_can.md
29. propaganda.md
30. fun.mf
31. astrology.md
32. flat_earth.md
33. cancer.md
34. harmful.md
35. greenwashing.md
36. openwashing.md
37. fight_culture.md
38. pseudoskepticism.md
39. bloat.md
40. gatekeeping.md
41. de_facto.md
42. cern.md
43. fight_culture.md
44. citation_needed.md
45. wikipedia.md
46. iq.md
47. youtube.md
48. npc.md
49. religion.md
50. freedom_distance.md
51. hero_culture.md
52. beauty.md
53. gender_studies.md
54. lmao.md
55. race.md
56. pseudoskepticism.md
57. phd.md
58. lmao.md
59. woman.md
60. citation_needed.md
61. covid.md
62. god.md
63. atheism.md
64. null_ritual.md
65. wikipedia.md
66. conspiracy_theory.md
67. racism.md
68. cancel_culture.md
69. phrenology.md
70. holocaust.md
71. economics.md
72. nazi.md
73. pedophilia.md
74. gay.md
75. dogma.md
76. capital.md
77. pseudoskepticism.md
78. conspiracy_theory.md