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Dr Kay's avatar

Covid showed many people that the word "science" is actually a front for the religion of scientism.....and we no longer have any illusions at all what it is all about. No amount of weaponized language can ever again disguise true intent that tries to hide behind deception. In 2021, I watched how the child protective services agency that I worked for took the experimental covid v@x and by policy defined it as "routine medical" so that every so-called "eligible" victim of the despicable system was expected to be subjected to it. With the swipe of a pen, the definition was changed.......voila! Once you know, you can never un-know.

Lucy Beney's avatar

I am so grateful to you for this series. These pieces reflect exactly what I have observed and the conclusions that I have drawn. The words "science" and "doctor" elicit a kind of pseudo-religious reverence now, which discourages any kind of rigorous questioning. At a time when people are searching for so many answers, this is profoundly dangerous.

Crixcyon's avatar

When Lord Fauci said "I am the Science" I knew we were at peak corruption in the entire field. No more can any science be blindly trusted.

jools's avatar

I mean who ACTUALLY says that and believes it! It’s so ridiculous.

Baldmichael's avatar

True. Perhaps more to the point who actually believes what Fauci says. Sadly rather a lot of people.

I think he was testing the stupidity of people, seeing what there response would be.

https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/on-call-a-doctors-journey-in-public?utm_source=publication-search

jools's avatar

I think he wasn’t doing anything, I think he was following orders and has been for years.

And I think that they already think we are stupid to be honest.

I think he has enough hubris to believe himself. You’d have to in order to be willing to say it publicly.

I agree that the big C was in part a test yes.

Baldmichael's avatar

'I am the science' anagrams to:

- cc I enema shite

Walking Disease Vector's avatar

Great documentary about the politicization and weaponization of psychiatric labels and diagnoses by ruling classes throughout history:

“Dissent Into Madness” by James Corbett

https://youtu.be/QP65nMP2YpY?si=zTLissfYt4nAPVxf

jools's avatar

It’s ok.. I think this shows something. I think it shows a desperate grab for legitimacy in a world where people are finally seeing the man behind the curtains. It’s beginning to get obvious now so this actually made me laugh it’s such a foot stamping “I’m intelligent too” move.

Daryl Poe's avatar

While trying to manipulate words, the association can't even insert the word "Scientific" correctly into their new title.

The Social Thymocyte's avatar

I’m reading an academic tome titled “A History of Marxist Psychology”. I never would have thought that psychology was used As a tool towards the Marxist project. Or that the theory of mind was applied towards making the mind like an ant, a proper communist

Annie Mc's avatar

I love this series! Thank you so much.

Anya's avatar

So profoundly important — a sea change.

Simonde's avatar

A more appropriate title would be something like, "Stuff we made up to make loads of money'.

Crixcyon's avatar

That easily applies to 90% of the medical mafia.

Kevin Rigley's avatar

Great Article, Roger,

I agree that adding the word "scientific" is an attempt to lend credibility. But that is not why I ultimately disagree with this article.

The problem is not the name change. The problem is that the DSM is a diagnostic framework that remains largely disconnected from scientific mechanisms.

To paraphrase Wittgenstein, philosophy gets into trouble when science goes on holiday. And psychiatry is precisely the domain where science has too often gone on holiday—leaving language to do the work that biology cannot yet support.

The DSM does not describe diseases in the way immunology or oncology does. It does not identify underlying causal pathways. It describes clusters of behaviours in committee language, and then treats those linguistic categories as objective entities.

Take ADHD. The language is framed in a way that aligns perfectly with pharmaceutical intervention. A child is not responding to an unnatural environment, not signalling distress through restlessness or dysregulation; instead, they are said to have a disorder—one that conveniently has a lifelong drug pathway attached.

The nervous system is shouting that something is wrong.

And in the brave new world, the answer is too often a chemical soma: methylphenidate as ritual, prescription as resolution.

So yes, language matters. But not because psychiatry is a covert psychological operation.

Language matters because, in the absence of a mechanism, diagnosis becomes metaphor—and metaphor becomes market.

Rosa Deogracias's avatar

Changing one word Statistical to Scientific & hoping people think the DSM less as a "bible"? It doesn't add up.

Wld be amazing health "authorities" encourage the individual's confidence in "listening to your body", informed consent & less labelling please.

Aurora of Gamma's avatar

Such an important call to action. Thank you. I am with you all the way. Sometimes I feel like I'm screaming into the abyss with colleagues in counselling and psychotherapy who've bought the "scientific" model and narrative hook, line and sinker. Sigh.

jools's avatar

You are screaming into the abyss if you still work in their arena. It’s been like it for YEARS.

Will R Thomson's avatar

They didn't buy the scientific model.

They abandoned the scientific method.

If you can't discuss back.

So. HAVE. YOU.

Will R Thomson's avatar

Action?

You meant virtue signal

Fiona Meredith's avatar

The DSM is a politically constructed tool of categorisation, which has been enormously influenced by sustained lobbying from various Advocacy groups - whose brief is to obtain more support, money, or protection. Much of what is contained in the diagnostic criteria has not been scentifically tested or validated. When we look and the studies that "justify" the decisions, they are methodologically corrput. Inferences are drawn that cannot be reasonbly made from the results. This "scientific" discourse is then filtered through the attention economy and becomes fact. Nothing about the DSM is 'Scientific".

Roisin Dubh's avatar

What a racket, a racket that is harming millions. Now we have psychiatric nurses and doctors prescribing SSRIs online from their mental health clinics and smoothly billing insurance companies for the damage they are causing—a veritable gold mine. We need so many more legal interventions to protect us from these 'scientific' manipulations.

The Hidden Life Is Best's avatar

Good summary. It’s as old as the hills isn’t it. They found a new religion of elitism. Scientia means knowledge and “Knowledge itself is power”. The human mind is open for suggestion. They claim the knowledge. New Gnostic elitists seeking control with their dark religion. Scientism sucks. Scientism = Tyranny. Science makes a s**t religion. The New Atlantis is hell on earth.