When we use the word “Beliefs” many people think of religion. However, most of our Beliefs have nothing to do with religion. As outlined in Part 1, the majority of our Beliefs are our opinions about what things are, how things behave, etc. Some examples of Beliefs are “We need to use a lot more wind energy if we are going to save the planet” or “We should scrap the K-12 public school system and start over,” etc.
In Part 1 I wrote: we each have KEY Beliefs, that effectively run our life. Here are some of mine…
Some of my Primary Business Beliefs (as vs Personal):
Our technical policies should be based on real Science
Our technical policies instead are based on political science. This (despite the misleading name) has nothing to do with real Science, and is actually politics.
Real Science is a Process.
The #1 Science Process is the Scientific Method. (This is an organized test of a hypothesis to determine its validity.)
The #2 Science Process is a Scientific Assessment. (This is an evaluation that is a) Objective, b) Comprehensive, c) Transparent, and d) Empirical.)
None of our alternative energy sources have been successfully subjected to either the Scientific Method or a Scientific Assessment!
As a result — no surprise — wind and solar are not economical, not reliable, and not environmentally friendly.
The Climate hypothesis (not theory!) has not been successfully subjected to either the Scientific Method or a Scientific Assessment.
As a result — again, no surprise — multiple holes and contradictions remain in the Climate hypothesis.
Healthcare is another technical matter. However, our healthcare policies are being determined by political influence, rather than by the two Science processes.
COVID publicly exposed this corruption as science-based therapies were first demeaned, and then replaced by inferior political science alternatives.
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The primary objective of our K-12 education process should be that graduates have the ability and interest in doing Critical Thinking.
The most appropriate subject area to teach children how to be Critical Thinkers is Science (as real scientists are skeptics who automatically ask a lot of questions).
Instead, our children are being taught the opposite of Critical Thinking: conformity — e.g., defer to: experts, consensus, computers, political correctness, etc.
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The most important objective of the US election process should be that there is election integrity (i.e., every citizen has one vote).
The only accurate way to assess whether there is election integrity, is a post-election forensic audit.
To date, there have been ZERO official post-election forensic audits — so ALL claims that we have had election integrity are complete speculation.
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To defend their rights, citizens need to: a) get educated about the issues at stake, b) apply Critical Thinking, c) work together with allies, d) learn from what has worked (or not) in the past, and e) be persistent.
Some of my Primary Personal Beliefs (expressed as metaphors):
Work as if everything depends on me, but pray as if everything depends on God
Doing the Right Thing is often not the easiest choice at the time, but it is always the best choice in the long run (similar to: Two wrongs don’t make a right)
Variety is the spice of life
Keep It Simple (KISS)
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it (which is another version of Don’t Reinvent the Wheel)
Time = Life: wasting our time is wasting our life.
Waste not, want not
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Actions speak louder than words
Say what you mean, and mean what you say
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right
Many hands make light work
The squeaky wheel gets greased
Work before pleasure
Changing the Beliefs of others is the way to get them to change their behavior
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Some final food for thought:
Experience is the hardest teacher as
she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards...
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Part 3 wraps up our overview of Beliefs. It is about getting others to see the merits of your perspective, and to change their actions accordingly.
Here are other materials by this scientist that you might find interesting:
Check out the Archives of this Critical Thinking substack.
WiseEnergy.org: discusses the Science (or lack thereof) behind our energy options.
C19Science.info: covers the lack of genuine Science behind our COVID-19 policies.
Election-Integrity.info: multiple major reports on the election integrity issue.
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I wrote this on my facebook page several months ago:
The purpose of the educational establishment:
1. Pre-school: Prepare for Kindergarten
2. Kindergarten: Prepare for elementary school
3. Elementary school: Prepare for middle school
4. Middle school: Prepare for high school
5. High school: Prepare for college
6. College: Prepare for grad school -- or NFL
7. Grad school: Prepare to be a professor
Why is the entire educational establishment aimed at only about 0.01% of the population? And why does it utterly fail for the other 99.99%?
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
-- Mark Twain
My older brother had quite an influence on me as I was growing up. He told me "Character is doing the right thing when nobody is watching."
As you say, scientific inquiry is a method. It’s not exclusively reserved for “scientists” but rather is properly insisting on full context and purging of contradictions in all that we think about. What can be found in many people that hold scientific certifications is they specialize narrowly and lack broad general knowledge.
And one of my guiding principles is, infallibility is not a human attribute.