SOMEWHERE (June 4) —
is an intriguing tautology
Though, by itself, it cannot explain
the lack of advance in astrology
and other fields of fuzzy thinking
where practitioners, lacking all inkling
of analysis and methodology,
often fall pray to mindless doxology.
(Looking at you, my dear theologians.
Your hypotheses are, pace, untestable.
Yet you insist your devined doctrines
are not only true, but uncontestable.
Which I find indigestible.)
There also are those who profess economics
which is less scientific than newspaper comics,
all complex equations mixed with evasions
amounting to nothing whatever.
It’s all mumbo jumbo, all smoke and mirrors
lacking consistency, despite changing gears,
with different persuasions for different occasions.
Along with religion, it lives forever,
changing with time to conform to new norms.
(Amazing how nonsense weathers all storms.)
To return to the theme of facts changing minds —
largely unheard of among [sic] humankind.
It seems sub-optimal, but there must be some WHY
rather than changing, we prefer to die.
Someone would win an MacArthur Grant
if they could explain it. Not ME! I can’t.
Bonus: Unrelated except by title (Click)