“Exposing deceitful scientists and academicians!”, “Forbidden knowledge about the world around us!”, “Science is guarding the interests of power!”, “Scheme of a scientific conspiracy,” “Sinister methods of the scientific community,” “Secret knowledge cannot be hidden!”
I’m sure everyone has already encountered similar flashy headlines and the readers of what is written under them. If you try to visualize the ideas of some citizens about scientists and their activities, they will look something like this:
The time has come for me to do my bit, and I also decided to tear off the veil a little from the shining body of truth.
A certain part of citizens has a strong belief in the existence of a dark conspiracy of silence, concealment and falsification of true knowledge. Adherents of the “conspiracy of scientists” version believe that instead of true knowledge, scientific knowledge is brazenly concocted, which in fact is simply scientific and splurge, and they are created for the convenience of defrauding the redneck masses. I will list the most basic and frequent accusations against science, which seem to confirm the existence of a conspiracy:
No. 1. There is an agreement between scientists to hide certain things that are extremely inconvenient for official science knowledge. Scientists are taking such steps because science is extremely conservative, inert, businessmen from science make money on this topic, and too much will have to be revised and canceled, which is uncomfortable and unpleasant.
No. 2. Somewhere in deeply secret storerooms, special storage facilities, secret libraries and gloomy basements, manuscripts, tablets or objects that overturn the entire building sadly languish modern science, but they are not shown for reason No. 1
No. 3. Science is extremely inaccurate, often wrong, and largely untrustworthy for reasons #1 and #2. Therefore, you can trust her only in in some cases or it’s better not to trust at all. It automatically follows from this that any craziest hypothesis or version has equal rights with scientific theories. Moreover, the fact that people do not have education in the field in which they develop their ideas does not matter.
I answer point by point
No. 1. Scientists' conspiracy. And also: hushing up secrets, hiding artifacts, destroying inconvenient inventions, serving the authorities. (First, let’s define it. A scientist is a representative of science who carries out meaningful activities to form a scientific picture of the world, whose activities and qualifications have been recognized by the scientific community, a person who studies objective reality empirically and operates only with facts that can be reliably confirmed or refuted, a specialist in any scientific field and made a real contribution to it).
A little about my experience of communicating with scientists. My place of work is as a caretaker at the largest archaeological complex and every year I have to communicate with scientists from different fields, some come for work, others just to relax. I can say that it would be difficult to find more dissimilar people. I can't resist telling you about one thing funny incident. This happened three years ago, a group of tourists arrived, as usual, and began wandering around the rocks, when suddenly a man separated from the group. Walking straight up to me with decisive steps, he immediately called out his first and last name and asked menacingly, “What did I read from him?” Somewhat confused by such pressure, I answered, “nothing,” and asked, “why should I suddenly read it?” To which he replied that he is a very prominent scientist and I must know him. Right there he literally handed me a thick book to look at, which he carried with him everywhere, on which it was written that he was its author and that he had a lot of all sorts of respectable scientific titles. The next year, I got into a conversation with his colleague, who came to us and worked with him at one time. She said that he is indeed a great specialist in his field, but he has an extremely inflated sense of his own importance. She even remembered a funny episode, how he, having thrown a scandal, demanded from the board publishing a textbook for students in his specialty that he, along with the great classical scientists, be mentioned on the first pages as the founder of this science.
There were other unusual individuals, for example, over the years I came across several times people with Ph.D. and other titles, after communicating with whom it was clear that they peacefully coexisted belief in mystical phenomena and at the same time critical-rational thinking.
The absolute majority among scientists are, of course, ordinary, normal individuals and they have as many oddities and peculiarities as all other people. The only significant difference from the majority is the desire to learn, professionally realized in constant scientific activity. Based on my observations, I can say with absolute certainty that most scientists are interested in the process of cognition itself, and not in the benefits that their status provides. Every scientist, no less than an alternative scientist, painfully wants to know the secrets and mysteries of the universe, it is this desire that brings most people to science. That is, their activities are mainly in the name of an idea and there are simply no tools or incentives to force scientists to unite in the name of serving something. Unite them all with a conspiracy or any other idea (except the idea scientific knowledge world) is completely technically impossible. The global conspiracy of scientists is as absurd as, for example, the conspiracy of nursing mothers, bald taxi drivers or the residents of all the houses on the 3rd floor.
No. 2. Conservatism of science. (And also its inertia, obscurantism, anti-innovation, closed-mindedness, reactionaryness, ignorance). There are countless cases of supposedly ignorant conservatism; I’ll briefly talk about the three most famous. Non-existent meteorites, harmful bacteria, motionless continents.
In 1768, on September 13 in the region. A meteorite fell in Lucay, France, with a large number of witnesses. The Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris had already received similar evidence before, and they finally decided to look into it. A commission was created, which included well-known scientists at that time: mineralogist Fougereau, pharmacist Cadet and physicist Lavoisier. The evidence of people, as well as the stones themselves, were examined in detail. Afterwards, a report was published in the Physical Journal for 1777. In a detailed report it was said that the stone could not have fallen from the sky - this is an invention of eyewitnesses, it is of terrestrial nature and that it does have some unusual properties, but most likely due to the fact that it was struck by lightning. In 1803, after a meteorite fell in Normandy, again on behalf of the (renamed because of the revolution) academy, the physicist Biot compiled an accurate description of its fall. After this, the reality of the existence of meteorites was recognized.
Early 20th century a large number of doctors believed that many human organs were unnecessary, and all bacteria were harmful. This is what the biologist wrote and Nobel laureate Ilya Mechnikov in his “Studies on Nature”: “Now there is nothing daring in the assertion that not only the cecum with its appendage, but even all human colons are superfluous in our body and that their removal would lead to very desirable results.” Considered useless or even harmful: tonsils, appendix, thymus, pineal gland, etc. There were widespread views that the removal of these organs prevents poisoning of the body by waste products of putrefactive bacteria. The practice of mass removal of some of these organs was widespread until the 1950s. Afterwards, it gradually became clear that bacteria are necessary for the functioning of the body and that each organ has its own useful function. All organs were rehabilitated, the last being the tonsils. At the end of the 20th century, it was convincingly proven that they are one of the barriers to pathogenic microbes, in which protective proteins are produced. And the practice of mass removal of them from people was recognized as erroneous. For example, in the USA in the 1930s, more than half of children had their tonsils removed, i.e. in tens of millions of people.
Until the 1960s, the “contraction hypothesis” prevailed - in it, all geological processes on Earth were explained by processes of decreasing its volume, i.e. compression. It was believed that it is compression that forms folds, mountains, cracks, faults and all other features of the landscape. In 1912 L.A. Wegener (German meteorologist and geologist) presented his hypothesis at a meeting of the German Geological Association in Frankfurt am Main. In it, based on the data and observations he collected, he suggested that all continents were moving slowly in horizontal directions. This hypothesis immediately had some supporters. But the scientific community completely rejected this theory. In the 1960s, a huge amount of new data was obtained on the structure of the earth (a detailed map of the world ocean floor was compiled, the convection speed of magma was measured - 1 cm per year, inversions were discovered magnetic field, the fact of the movement of continental plates was established - with the help of precise measurements, etc.) As a result, Wegener's hypothesis, with some clarifications, was recognized as correct. Now it is generally accepted and is constantly updated with new data.
What does all this tell us? Firstly, in recognizing what is wrong (from the point of view modern knowledge) theories, science was at that time in its own right, since then (with that level of tools, knowledge, methods and experience) these theories best explained the world without attracting unnecessary entities in the form of mysticism and incomprehensibility. Here we need to explain a little: the purpose of any scientific theory is to economically explain as many facts as possible. If a theory appears that explains an even larger number of facts and in even shorter and more understandable formulations, then it will inevitably replace the previous one. This is the essence of science and this is the course of the evolution of scientific views. Therefore, calls to recognize any (mystical, alternative, esoteric, etc.) theory without a sufficient number of facts to confirm it look quite strange. It is usually argued that science will only benefit from this and become more useful. But such actions will be as absurd as attempts to attach to the board spaceship horse and cart, in the hope that their combined traction will increase the overall efficiency of the entire facility.
This is largely why science has made such progress over the last 200 years, because it has gotten rid of appendages in the form of magic, mysticism, etc., and fundamentally does not engage in research, which cannot be reliably measured and investigated.
Secondly, there is another feature of science that many people do not like and is a frequent reason for its accusations. Sometimes it happens that there are a certain number of firmly established facts, but still they are not enough to create a theory on their basis. In this case, the problem is simply left for later and, as it were, pushed into a distant drawer - until more facts accumulate and technical capabilities grow. So, for example, it happened with the mass of the universe; they more or less learned to calculate it by the 1950s, but the result was a huge discrepancy with the observed picture. In the early 2000s, large teams undertook targeted large-scale research in this direction using all available possibilities (a network of telescopes, powerful computers, launching space probes, etc.) as a result, dark matter and dark energy were discovered, explaining gravitational anomaly (but ultimately raising even more other questions about the nature of itself) which led to a revision of the model of the universe.
No. 3. Not the precision of science. It should be noted right away that none of the adequate scientists ever claims the complete infallibility of scientific theories. Each of them has its weak points and blind spots. But the fact of the matter is that in any theory of alternativeists (when compared with a scientific theory) there are an order of magnitude more weaknesses and blind spots. Well, then, scientists always recognize the unconditional right of alternative theories to compete with scientific ones, and even more so the right to their existence. But here important condition– they must be well done using scientific methods. Unfortunately most of what alternative figures offer cannot even be called a scientific theory; rather, it is some kind of information garbage that grew up on fried, rather than verifiable facts.
You can also often hear the accusation that science does not evaluate, study, consider, or at least expose the many alternative theories that continuously generate many figures and which then find a lively response from some part of the citizens. But this is also easy to explain. One of the generally accepted rules of dialogue looks like this: “the burden of evidence should always lie on the approving side.” Imagine the following situation: a group of people were seated opposite you, giving them the task of telling you all their theories for a couple of hours. And you were given the task of refuting or confirming them. And so you sit, and all these two hours, every ten seconds, they shout out a new ridiculous idea for the structure of the universe. Will you have time to sort them all out and answer them adequately? Science is in the same situation, the number and variety of non-scientific hypotheses is such that even 100 times as many scientists will not be enough to expose all this. And it is not the function of science to directly combat illiterate theories.
Google Maps is one of the most accessible mapping technologies recent years. Do you want to admire the Eiffel Tower, but as always you don’t have money for a ticket to Paris? No problem, turn on the appropriate soundtrack, dim the lights and open the tab Google Maps: travel is cheap and cheerful, like your boss on Monday morning. But even in this way you will not be able to see the whole world: the most interesting places For some reason, on public maps they are blurred or painted over. Where do these secret points come from in a project that is not officially a government development? What are they trying to hide from us? the mighty of the world this?
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Secret city
There are still a lot of closed cities in Russia. Some of them are so secret that they even disappear from maps! Nearest locality- Egvekinot, separated from Alaska by the Bering Strait.
Military airport
There aren't many secret places in Japan - at least not known to Western intelligence. Minami Torishima Airport is completely white on maps. Ten years ago a special group was based here navy countries, but what is happening now is unclear.
Vlissingen
Properties owned by Dutch royal family, are not the only secret and retouched places in the Netherlands. Oil tanks in Vlissingen, as well as several military and air force bases, were thoroughly camouflaged.
Ramstein Air Force Base
With this place darkened, everything is more or less clear. The NATO Air Force Center is the central hub of the grouping, carrying out all the most major operations in Iraq. Naturally, for terrorists the base is just a tasty morsel.
Babylon
Iraq, where fighting has not subsided for two decades, certainly has a lot of secrets. Even the famous Babylon on Google Maps is retouched so that it looks less like a city and more like farmland.
Who is terrorizing Russia?
Telephone attacks cause panic throughout the country, but the authorities and law enforcement officers act as if nothing is happening. This raises serious suspicions among experts.
Is the vaunted SORM system worth billions of rubles really not able to perform its functions? © CC0 Public Domain
In tens major cities countries, due to massive calls from unknown persons about bomb threats, shopping centers, schools, universities, residential and administrative buildings have been evacuated every day for two weeks. However, despite the unprecedented scale of destabilization, the authorities have been silent all this time, and the media have been giving out various not entirely convincing versions about the source of the threats.
Rosbalt asked experts about their versions of what is happening and whether the Russian law enforcement system is able to protect citizens.
Gennady Gudkov, reserve colonel of the FSB, State Duma deputy of the III-VI convocations:
“The problem is that in the situation with calls about ‘mining’, we don’t know for sure whether law enforcement officers don’t want or can’t find the callers. I know for sure that quite recently the FSB received additional powerful technical search and tracing systems - the so-called SORM-5. Now the FSB is able to very quickly and effectively identify sources of information, threats or calls not only in our country, but also abroad. In addition to this, there is a huge technical intelligence department, an analogue of the DIA, as well as a department that deals with encryption and decryption, etc. That is, Russia is not a whipping boy at all, but a country with serious capabilities to protect its information security. Nevertheless, we have been observing how for the past two weeks mass telephone threats have paralyzed the life of a number of large cities. They cause panic and anxiety among hundreds of thousands of Russians and cause enormous damage to the economy.
At the same time, we still do not have any sane official information from the leadership of the Russian state. Neither the Security Council, nor the presidential representative, nor the leaders of the government and federal structures responsible for our security said anything. This cannot and should not happen in a country where the authorities communicate normally with society. Therefore, suspicions arise.
I understand if our services were faced with some unknown technology that allows us to make these attacks anonymous... But then someone, say, from the leaders of the Security Council, would have to come out and say: “Dear fellow citizens, we are under a massive attack. In all likelihood, this is a group of international terrorists or scammers who are trying to plunge us into anxiety, fear, etc., etc. We will definitely find them - we are simply faced with previously unexplored technical techniques that do not yet allow us decipher the source of threats. But we are carrying out such work and will definitely punish everyone involved in what is happening. We have already contacted our partners abroad and asked them to use technical and other capabilities to identify this dangerous gang of criminals.”
But what do we have instead? Silence, incomprehensible “leaks” from incomprehensible sources in structures - either in the FSB, then in the Security Council, then in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, blaming Ukraine, then Brussels, or someone else for what is happening.
Two conclusions can be drawn from this. First: our law enforcement system, special services, and security system are absolutely unable to cope with their tasks. They consume huge amounts of taxpayers' money but fail to protect it. Then we need to take strict measures against them. Second: if our intelligence services and law enforcement agencies are able to act, it means that this is a provocation on the part of the state, apparently pursuing the goal of rallying the people around the government. For example, for the sake of further persecution of the Internet, a ban social networks, human communication systems. Or maybe this is in order to “tighten the screws” on the eve of the presidential elections.
I don't have a third option. Previously, I suspected that this could be an international gang that was practicing methods of destabilization in Russia, perhaps in order to receive some kind of political or financial bonuses. But I discount this version, because if this were so, the country’s leadership would certainly have announced it.
Therefore, the silence of the Russian authorities makes me suspect that this may be either a provocation of the state, or an absolute loss of functionality of the entire Russian security system. Unfortunately, there are only these two sad alternatives.”
Leonid Volkov, IT expert and politician:
“The situation with false ‘mining’ throughout Russia clearly demonstrated the powerlessness of law enforcement officers in the face of real cyber threats. And, most likely, this happened as a result of corrupt spending on information security - for example, on the same SORM system. In theory, SORM, as it was intended, could track IP telephony calls. In fact, it turned out that she could not do this.
This leads to a sad conclusion. Providers pay for this system, and we pay providers. According to conservative estimates, SORM costs us about 8-10 billion rubles a year. However, it turns out that the system is completely ineffective and does not allow us to do anything that was required of it.
Of course, there are objective technical difficulties. To determine the source of a call, you need to understand where it is included in the public telephone network via IP telephony. But the fact of the matter is that if SORM had worked as stated, then, of course, the caller could have been found. It is unlikely that law enforcement officers do not want to look for him. I think they simply can't do it because they built an expensive, ineffective system that failed the first serious test.
It seems that the point of creating this system, like almost any major system in modern Russia, was to ensure that someone mastered some budgets. Today this is such an unsightly, harsh truth of life.”
Stanislav Belkovsky, political strategist, publicist:
“Mass evacuation due to calls from “telephone terrorists” may be part of a certain technology related to Vladimir Putin’s preparation for his nomination for a new presidential term. Because now it is the president who must intervene in this situation and put an end to all these chaotic actions and show that he is able to regain control over what is happening. And all these scattered quasi-, pseudo-terrorist structures will be called to order.
The fact that yesterday the leader of the pseudo-existing organization “Christian State” was detained at the request of deputy Poklonskaya largely fits into this scheme.
The President will put an end to this, especially since there is most likely no real mining. There is simply a system of threats, behind which there is actually nothing. “Putin will put an end to it, thereby showing that he is the main and only guarantor of the security of the Russian people.”
Alexey Kondaurov, retired KGB major general, State Duma deputy of the 4th convocation:
“It is not surprising that people in our country feel unprotected from criminal attacks. And I also feel insecure.
Everyone sees the low efficiency of the law enforcement system, including the police, courts, and prosecutor's office. The bias of these special services is also obvious. I think their general goal is to defend power. And the protection of citizens, although declared, is in fact carried out extremely ineffectively.
When you see the same traffic cops on the roads, husking sunflower seeds, you see how they “work” with excessive numbers, you understand that you cannot expect high performance from the law enforcement system.
People come with statements about crimes committed, and they are often refused, or they accept statements, but do nothing to ensure that the crime is solved. There is a lot of evidence of this in the form of high-profile attacks on politicians and public figures.
All this, plus endless corruption scandals, directly indicates that the country’s law enforcement system is ineffective.”
There are many government secrets, and believe me, it is better not to know anything about them, as they can shock.
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