There is no JREF idea of reality or science because the description of an idea is not an experimental fact but a philosophy, and JREF does facts, not philosophy. It follows that it is impossible for the JREF to have a mission or description of its purpose because any such description is not an experimental fact, but a philosophy. And JREF does not do philosophy.
For the JREF there is no distinction between science or mysticism as these are ideas or philosophies and not experimental results. This means that the JREF vision appears as a name tag, a flag, pinned to a list of uninterpreted experimental results or facts.
Without an idea, mission, purpose or philosophy to its facts the JREF has only one place to go - to go with the facts that put food on the table, facts that serve our needs - pragmatism.
The public face of the JREF
The JREF confuses pragmatism with science, publicly, intentionally. As the JREF cannot give a description of science in its mission statement, for any such description will be philosophy, then all it can offer is pragmatic or useful experimental outcomes which masquerade as science. The JREF encourages the airing of pragmatic facts in its science forums, which is to place them in the wrong category - there are no categories in pragmatism. This is necessary in order to maintain the illusion that the JREF is not just another dreary pragmatic endeavour.
This amounts to conceptual fraud - the JREF is doing philosophy by offering pragmatism as science - but, importantly, because this fraud is conceptual then the JREF has no need to tackle it, for any analysis of an idea like pragmatism or science is doing philosophy. But the JREF does not do philosophy. So it is that this post, too, will be policed and tucked away.
Concluding...
The JREF was never pro-science or anti-mystical. The JREF is a sexed-up feudal pragmatism that, like all pragmatisms, is necessarilly void of concepts and debate. Forums and debates are tacked on by the JREF machinery to promote its popularity among its "members", but at the end of the day the JREF feudal pragmatism has nothing to do with debate or science. It is an endeavour of a policing, ruling class, neurotically exploiting popularity through the surge of popularity in science.
For the JREF there is no distinction between science or mysticism as these are ideas or philosophies and not experimental results. This means that the JREF vision appears as a name tag, a flag, pinned to a list of uninterpreted experimental results or facts.
Without an idea, mission, purpose or philosophy to its facts the JREF has only one place to go - to go with the facts that put food on the table, facts that serve our needs - pragmatism.
The public face of the JREF
The JREF confuses pragmatism with science, publicly, intentionally. As the JREF cannot give a description of science in its mission statement, for any such description will be philosophy, then all it can offer is pragmatic or useful experimental outcomes which masquerade as science. The JREF encourages the airing of pragmatic facts in its science forums, which is to place them in the wrong category - there are no categories in pragmatism. This is necessary in order to maintain the illusion that the JREF is not just another dreary pragmatic endeavour.
This amounts to conceptual fraud - the JREF is doing philosophy by offering pragmatism as science - but, importantly, because this fraud is conceptual then the JREF has no need to tackle it, for any analysis of an idea like pragmatism or science is doing philosophy. But the JREF does not do philosophy. So it is that this post, too, will be policed and tucked away.
Concluding...
The JREF was never pro-science or anti-mystical. The JREF is a sexed-up feudal pragmatism that, like all pragmatisms, is necessarilly void of concepts and debate. Forums and debates are tacked on by the JREF machinery to promote its popularity among its "members", but at the end of the day the JREF feudal pragmatism has nothing to do with debate or science. It is an endeavour of a policing, ruling class, neurotically exploiting popularity through the surge of popularity in science.
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