At the time of writing, Elon Must now owns the social media platform Twitter and has re-named it X. Musk is using the platform to facilitate and enable the convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and prolific serial liar and misinformation spreader Donald Trump. Musk is a member of the Royal Society of London (here). Musk is a proven self-interested serial liar and proven prolific spreader of misinformation and absolute falsehoods (here). Why would the Royal Society not kick him out? That is the telling question.
Why is it wrong to simply "believe in" the truth about anything.
Including ludicrous credulous religious belief that questioning given articles of faith is "sinful" and so must be avoided to reach some heavenly person-promised place after death, it is not sensible to simply believe in anything at all as a fact. This is because, religion aside, we tend to think that our beliefs about what is true are based on facts. However, the danger is that our mere beliefs about what is true may not be based on facts at all. We like to think that facts lead to beliefs, but research into human bias repeatedly shows us that it is beliefs that influence how we approach and interpret facts. And so what happens is that our beliefs about what is true can be based entirely on lies, ignorance and misinformation. In the story of Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace and Patrick Matthew, many so called "scientists" are not seeing that the independently verifiable empirical data led facts show us what is true in this story, because they are invested in something else. And that something else is their beliefs created by the misinformation spread by The Royal Society of London and the Linnean Society about Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace being honest genius independent discovers of the theory of evolution by natural selection. Showing Darwinists the newly discovered facts that their namesake was in fact a lying plagiarist of the great unifying theory of biology does not help because they want to interpret that evidence entirely through the prism of what they already merely believe. And so what many of them are engaging in is not a cynical form of lying, but mere self-deception. Others are perhaps knowingly lying to protect their own Darwin invested reputations and perhaps the reputations of our institutions of science.
The newly discovered, and some long ago known, independently verifiable empirical data about who read and cited Patrick Matthew's (1831) published theory of the natural process of selection, and the proven knowing lies Darwin told to cover that up is being suppressed by lies and misinformation spread by the so-called "Darwin Industry".
