An article on the website for Scientific American asks the question, "How did we get to the point where scientific authority is so easily challenged?" The article basically says that anyone who is not an "expert" has no business questioning the conclusions of 'Science' ...even when those conclusions are wrong.

EXCUSE ME?

Does education make someone wise? Give a fool a good education and all you get is an educated fool. A person goes to college, then wears a cap and gown and gets a piece of paper that comes with the label, "Expert :: Do Not Question My AUTHORITY"... and I'm supposed to bow down and worship the shingle on the wall?

Here it comes.... one of my favorite words... MALARKY!

It is dangerous to put "Faith" in science, scientists, experts, and others who would tell us what is right, wrong, true, false, proper, improper, or how we should think about global warming. Science is not out to prove truth; they are increasingly after our hearts and minds --and blind obedience. They want us to accept what they say without question.. because according to them ...we are not experts. We do not know anything except they reveal it to us. We have no more use to them than lab rats...and are viewed as having as much intelligence. I assert that there is only one source of truth and I stand on the Bible without question and without apology. (And it just so happens that my IQ is higher than a lot of scientists would like to acknowledge.)

I object to the pontification of Science.

Science has an important place, but it is not the be-all and end-all of wisdom and authority and it SHOULD be questioned, challenged and examined.

This is not to say that common sense should be put aside, as some people do when they hear a rumor like the one that says a certain vaccine may cause autism. It hasn't been proven and the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh any risks. Come on people! Correlation is not causation! It's time Science stopped using alarmist tactics and skewed statistics to manipulate the public and then blame them for 'questioning their authority'.

Science has become a necessary evil.

And that's the Bottom Line.