In 1945, the Guardian said : “The freedom of science to push its inquiries into every field and to proclaim its own results regardless of established opinions was an article of the progressive faith throughout Europe”
“MANCHESTER, SATURDAY, March 24, 1945
The Unity of Science
The nineteen-thirties have radically called in question the liberal tradition of the West and we are only just beginning to disentangle the problems set by this challenge. Previously science had been unquestioningly regarded as a new source of enlightenment which was seeking to establish positive knowledge in place of dogma and metaphysical speculation. The freedom of science to push its inquiries into every field and to proclaim its own results regardless of established opinions was an article of the progressive faith throughout Europe, Within science itself the young pioneers, the revolutionaries like Pasteur and Darwin, Semmelweis, Arrhenius, Van t’Hoff, Freud, and Einstein, who had to fight often single-handed against the closed ranks of an overbearing orthodoxy, were ‘the most admired and beloved figures. They were the heroes of enlightenment.”
24 Mar 1945, 4 – The Guardian at Newspapers.com
Now they demand anyone who disagrees with the “established opinions” be silenced.
“Climate change is real. We must not offer credibility to those who deny it If ‘balance’ means giving voice to those who deny the reality of human-triggered climate change, we will not take part in the debate, say Jonathon Porritt, Caroline Lucas, Clive Lewis and 57 other writers, politicians and academics”
Climate change is real. We must not offer credibility to those who deny it | Letters | The Guardian
