PJ Media

This article / author underscores the real conflict in public information in today’s world: the acceptance and praise of persons and their instruments which grow/evolve? from the RELATIVISM in modern discourse, in whatever subjects. Anyone’s “opinion” is valid as long as the persons are celebrities, the “correct” credentials are evoked, and “authorities” accept and use the “opinions” for public education, policy actions / control.

The “proof” of authority,i.e. clerisy OR celebrity, NOT demonstrable evidence.It boils down to INTEGRITY of the “scientists” in the practice of their disciplines, as it does in the integrity of the teachers in theirs, the public servants, including purveyors of information called Media, in theirs, lawyers, Congressmen, Judges, politicians etc. in theirs. ALL today impressed ( meaning captives in the service of some public body, e.g the old Royal Navy) by the “Mad Men” in the packaging not the substance.The temptations to short-cut real effort,time, evidence and truth is obvious. AND THAT is the difference between scientists, professionals, and pseuds. But the “public” gorged on information, inadequate, and often deliberately false, for “special interests” and population control in a free republic, has little interest in the history or truth of intellectual, social, political, moral events and developments. And so they become the puppets of those in the “professions” whose interests are self-enhancement and power over the “lives of others”, rather than adherence to the integrity of the disciplines.

INTEGRITY: entireness, wholeness, unimpaired state of anything, uprightness, honesty … (Concise English Dictionary )