This is #PearlsBeauty first post on Airbrushes & Airplanes. And on the final paper was given a good grade.
I hope I am getting across to some the importance of questioning everything like the ICT – Makavenna song says and Neil deGrasse Tyson on this Cosmo series that I have linked a clip of.
Question Everything…. — Airbrushes & Airplanes — Pearls Beauty
Anti-Science?
It has been the growth mindset that I have been raised in, to question everything. To me that means everything, not questioning everything except this topic or that entity. Question everything includes those and more questions, doesn’t exclude anything. Questioning does not imply that one side is right or wrong. Questioning everything is just wanting more information, I believe. The lyrics that I quote from my own song are to “Question everything, science, religion, government intentions. Problems, solutions, comical conclusions. Puns, metaphors, similes and plenty more. Life, death and everything in between Heaven/Hell, what it is and what it seems.”
ICT-Makavenna – Inspired Creative Thinker, 4th of June 2019, ICT Records on SoundCloud.
I have observed in the movie “Legally Blonde” how one bill gets passed underneath a stack of bills being voted on. This causes someone voting against the bill to appear to be for or against certain topics. The bill can be about putting an extra stop sign in the neighborhood and passing harder gun control laws. So by voting no for gun control, it affected the vote for the extra stop sign and the people who voted for it are then labeled to be against a safer neighborhood. This is politics, and happening somewhere in some multiverse I imagine. It crossed through someone’s mind and they made a movie about it. But it shows how extra words can be placed on top of other words to influence a vote.
“Test ideas by experiment and observation. Build on these ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads. And question everything” Niel deGrasse Tyson made this statement on the tv show “The Cosmos” inspired that part of the song for me to question everything. This is what I live by. Inspired by what I believe to be a scientific theory.
The topic I am currently questioning is; does it mean you are anti-science if you are against vaccines or you believe in religion?
This sounds to me that a “phrase” was purposely put in there to intentionally make it sound as if not believing in the Covid vaccination = not believing in science. Similar to the lesson I learned from “Legally Blonde” where a bill is slipped in there to discourage a vote. This sounds like a trick question or a political question. I cannot answer this question as stated and choose a side as if the only two choices are burgers or pizza. So does it mean you are against burgers or you like any kind of pizza? Does it mean you are anti-democracy if you are for republicans or any independent party? If I was to do a survey on the topic I would have three questions since there are three variables.
Do you believe in vaccines? Yes or No
Do you believe in Science? Yes or No
Do you believe in Religion of any kind? Yes or No
The way this question is structured: Are you against vaccines or do you believe in religion? Yes or no. If YOUR answer is yes you are anti-science, and I feel it is a trick question. I feel it is set to give you the illusion you only have two choices. If I was a scientist I would ask how it is that these individuals that have not been vaccinated survive and live to tell, instead of labeling them anti-scientists. You have a scientific theory with two variables, vaccinated and unvaccinated, instead of being biased towards one or the other for their beliefs. Both have individuals who lived to tell. How can that be? Quantum Physics seems to have some theories after scientists asked many new questions. When an atom can change from a particle to a wave, it is game over in my eyes. If it can be either or both, then is it possible with the vaccines that belief plays a major role on how the body reacts?
Personally, I would like to know what another being is going to inject inside my body. Could someone give me an entire list of all the elements that were put in this vaccine? And if I don’t understand what one or all of those elements are, I want to question what they are. Thus far, questioning the vaccine sounds very scientific to me. The motto is “question everything”.
So will I be given the information when I ask before I get injected with anything? I am a mother of a beautiful two year old baby girl. When I was pregnant with her I read an article from Jenny Mc Carthy and her claims to what the vaccines did to her child. We become afraid of looking dumb or being against authority if we ask questions, but I think that is not growth mindset thinking. I think not questioning makes you anti-scientist. Accepting what anyone else tells you to believe instead of asking questions and conducting your own experiments or doing your own research. That makes a person anti-science, I believe.
To a doctor or a “scientist” who studied a certain topic, it might seem like a long process trying to explain to a patient with very little knowledge about medicine, but if it is going into that patient’s body, they have the right to ask questions. It really can be said to be simpler if the doctor tries. Like what is in the vaccine? Well it is mostly water so H2O plus X component. What is the X component? Well the X component happens when V and W are joined together. Pieces are lost but what is left is the X. Interesting, so why do we need the X?
Does it mean you are anti-science if you are against vaccines or you believe in religion?
I was able to answer the question but not without breaking it up into parts like one of those algebra equations that I am always having to do. Now I have to switch to the topic of religion to have a conclusion or a theory to the question.
According to the first dictionary definition on a Google search, anti-science is “a set or system of attitudes and beliefs that are opposed to or reject science and scientific methods and principles.” (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-science) According to sciencecouncil.org, “A scientist is someone who systematically gathers and uses research and evidence, to make hypotheses and test them, to gain and share understanding and knowledge.” https://sciencecouncil.org/about-science/our-definition-of-a-scientist/#:~:text=A%20scientist%20is%20someone%20who,or%20data%20(data%20scientists).
Neither definition states or implies if you reject a vaccine of any kind because you were not given what you consider an adequate reply, that it makes you an anti-science person. When the doctor starts saying well I cannot explain to you why X needs to go inside the water for it to be called the vaccine. Then it is an issue of conflict. If the doctor or “scientist” starts saying that anyone who asks questions against a scientific theory is displaying what they are accusing of, don’t you think? If someone tells another to stop asking questions and just accept, then it is going against the principles of science. A patient has the control to ask questions. What comes after X? Y and Z. Why? And see what?
This leads me back to my original statement to “question everything” and anything that tells me to stop questioning makes me question why. Religion, no matter which leading one you follow, leads you to a point where they say those questions cannot be asked. Why? I asked and I did not die. Why can I not ask? I would say that any religion that makes the choices on what you can and cannot ask is going against science as defined. Even if the religion is the “Luna” religion, beliefs and traditions. If my dad told me that the Luna religion does not question the father, I would say that my family and religion are not using the scientific method. Like the show, “Raven’s Home” when Raven told her kids, “because.” That doesn’t work. There is a block in knowledge with accepting because instead of looking for more answers. If the response is “because for generations we have all gotten this vaccine. Before getting it, 80 percent of your family members died, Bob, Billy, Tom, Juan, Pablo and Seth. Two others whose names weren’t passed down. Only two survived. Do you want to take your chance like the ones in our family that died? That seems like a question that is replied to and finished off with a question of my own to think about.
Therefore, any group of individuals, regardless of color or representation, that is leading me to a point where I can no longer ask questions is a religion. When I typed the question “definition of anti-science” on Google, the very first response states “Antiscience is the rejection of mainstream scientific views and methods or their replacement with unproven or deliberately misleading theories, often for nefarious and political gains.” Rejection does not mean questioning. My dad can say don’t go AD, go A, B, C, D. There are blocks that will just lead you to B. I decide to go A to B but try to cut to D and the detour leads me back to C. I could have saved time if I would have listened and went A,B,C,D, but my problem is that I did not ask. I was only given partial information and forced to assume the other part. Had I asked, then I would know not to reject the mainstream path. The definition of the scientific method according to the first top dictionary search on Google is “a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.” The definition of anti-science from the top search seems to contradict itself when analyzing the sentence word per word. Dictionary: Definitions from Oxford Languages
Therefore, having a group of scientists dictate what mainstream scientific views are, then they become a religion of scientists that go against the definition of science, making them anti-science, and yes, being allowed to let a religion dominate your ability to ask questions seems to be anti-science to me. This question cancels itself out if I follow the method of striking through what doesn’t make sense with a red pencil in elementary school.
In conclusion this is all I can conclude. If a person rejects a vaccine, there is a reason why. Either it is the body, influence from family, religions or other reasons. If the person is allowed to ask questions and follow the scientific method, they might be able to find why they do not want the vaccine. Maybe their body is allergic to that vaccine and nobody knows. That person should use science to learn why they feel they should not take that vaccine. What is causing that blockage? The only way that person can find out is by asking questions. Following any group without questioning leads to believe in a religion, in my opinion. If that religion is not allowing you to grow by asking questions, then there is an issue and more questions that need to be asked by the individual. So even in writing this, I am not able to end with an answer. I have to end it with more questions. After X, why? And see what? I listen to my baby’s toddler music all day everyday while I do my school work and I always hear A,B,C,D….X,Y and Z.
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