The Manhattan Project created the atom bomb. I want to propose Donald Trump, if he can stay in office as he deserves to, sponsor something I will call the Queens Project, named after the borough where he grew up.
I have said this a number of times, but I am going to say it again: the path to an optimized future requires a new paradigm. To develop a new paradigm requires what I have tended to call paradigmatic flanking. This has not just cultural and social importance, but even POLITICAL importance.
In my view, one person in ten, roughly, in all science departments needs to be dedicated to subverting the dominant paradigm. We need to pay rebels to figure out what assumptions we are making that are unwarranted. This is roughly the “Tenth Man” idea seen in Israel in World War Z.
As one obvious example, I read this today: https://thenewamerican.com/scientists-are-clueless-about-origins-of-life-says-top-chemist-and-nanotechnologist/
None of the assumptions evolutionists have to make to make their theory make sense hold up under even mild critical analysis. It literally requires an act of faith, a “and then a miracle happened”, for their ideas to be even remotely tenable.
In my view, telos is built into everything. There is a counter-entropic “life” force which is a force of nature just like gravity and electromagnetism. We need to study this force.
I have argued specifically that we need a level of dedication, focus, funding, talent and professionalism on par with those which created the atom bomb and put men on the moon.
We need to take the ideas of life force and soul seriously, and study them as scientists, using science.
To my mind the most obvious gateway has long seemed to the work of Cleve Backster. He replicated his results literally thousands of times. He would do demonstrations for anyone that visited his lab in San Diego. And he was no kook: most of his work was with the FBI and the Secret Service, and he claims to have started the CIA’s polygraph program.
He detailed all his work in his book Primary Perception. As with most people doing anything outside the normal rail lines of orthodox thinking, he was attacked and ignored alternately for most of his life.
But his results are easy to replicate IF the person doing it is sincere enough to actually follow his protocols. And those results CANNOT BE EXPLAINED BY MAINSTREAM SCIENCE.
I will actually comment that I have often spoken of the “complicit media”; it occurs to me there are also “complicit scientists”, men and women who KNOW that the official explanations don’t work in important ways, and that evidence exists in abundances of events which cannot be fit into an orthodox scientific framework, and yet who fail to speak up, and who in most cases punish honest and well meaning dissent.
In high school, like most nerds I was a fan of Cosmos. I well remember Carl Sagan talking about Ptolemaic astronomy, and about how perfectly it worked, except for when Mars did something weird–Mars retrograde–that could not be explained by the model. To make it work, our entire understanding of the universe had to be radically upended–we needed to move the Earth from the center of the universe to just being one planet among many, and central to nothing–and it took a long time, and was opposed violently by the Church.
More recently Newton was radically amended by Einstein; and Quantum Physics has no analogue anywhere, in the history of science, or in our common experience. But it works. It is one of the most fantastically successful physical models every created. But if people had been afraid to go where the data and the math led, none of it would have been possible.
As Sagan commented, in SCIENCE–actual honest science conducted with integrity using the methods of conjecture, hypothesis, experimentation, correction, eventual theory and sometimes Law–if there exists ANYTHING that cannot be explained by a given hypothesis or theory, then that hypothesis or theory is either wrong, or more commonly incomplete in a major and important way.
Cleve Backster is the obvious “Mars retrograde” of Biology, and of so called “Life Sciences” generally.
All his critics failed to follow his protocols. It is that simple. And those who did and do get the results he got. He details the early and successful disinformation campaign waged on him in his book.
Everywhere you look, it is more or less literally like some organized force is preventing meaningful advances in human evolution. Perhaps there is. Certainly we are opposed always by institutional and individual habits of thought, reflexive hostility to novelty, financial and emotional interests, and banal stupidity and arrogance.
But watch this video. I’m sure I’ve posted it before, but it may have been five years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStmk7e9lJo
I will leave you with Nicola Tesla’s relevant quote: “The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”