Money is Destroying Science and Scholarship

August 15, 2023

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts PaulCraigRoberts.org

Ron Unz is a voice of conscience for history and science. In his essay — https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-why-the-media-fears-rfk-jr/ — Unz shows that science is governed by money and produces the explanations that money desires. Consequently, in place of truth we get lies. Unz reviews the AIDS controversy and finds that truth lost to money, and we were given in the place of truth an AIDS lie, just as we have been given a Covid lie.

Objective and honest scientists agree. Richard Horton, chief editor of The Lancet, wrote that financial considerations have become a central element of the scientific process. In other words, science has been corrupted by money and can no longer be trusted to deliver truth.

Unz writes: