As society's retaliations against truth-seekers and truth-tellers continue to intensify, might Religious Freedom provide a needed sanctuary for those who speak out about inconvenient truths?
It gets complicated, trying to tell science from religion. You have articulated a case that evidence-based pursuit of truth ought to have all the protections enjoyed by Mormons and orthodox Jews. On the other side, we see that the academic establishment of scientists has taken on the status of a priesthood. When the Church was all-powerful in Europe, rich people found it profitable to buy influence in the Church. Now that Science is the religion of the 21st century, rich corporations have bought ought the medical research community. I grew up with a reductionist-materialist view of the world which, for many years, I believed to be evidence-based. I now see that as "faith-based science", and I've made myself unemployable by pursuing scientific leads that undermine established science. "The truth will set you free" -- John 8:31. "The truth will lead to nothing but trouble." -- Galileo
It gets complicated, trying to tell science from religion. You have articulated a case that evidence-based pursuit of truth ought to have all the protections enjoyed by Mormons and orthodox Jews. On the other side, we see that the academic establishment of scientists has taken on the status of a priesthood. When the Church was all-powerful in Europe, rich people found it profitable to buy influence in the Church. Now that Science is the religion of the 21st century, rich corporations have bought ought the medical research community. I grew up with a reductionist-materialist view of the world which, for many years, I believed to be evidence-based. I now see that as "faith-based science", and I've made myself unemployable by pursuing scientific leads that undermine established science. "The truth will set you free" -- John 8:31. "The truth will lead to nothing but trouble." -- Galileo
“There is no God higher than Truth”
Gandhi was wrong. Truth is not a god, and we should not make it one. Just speaking the truth...