Junk science should never be trusted

Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin predicted that on Aug. 23, 2013, a storm would take place that would burn up the earth’s atmosphere, destroying most life on the planet, and Jesus would return to comfort the suffering.

Famous occultist Jeanne Dixon predicted that Armageddon would take place in 2020. She previously predicted the world would end on Feb. 4, 1962.

A nondenominational pastor named F. Kenton Beshore said that the rapture would occur in 2021 at the latest.

Today, we have all kinds of doomsday prophets declaring that we are in some kind of climate crisis and that we must change our way of living or be destroyed. Some even say our atmosphere will burn up within the next five years — literally. Such predictions are unscientific. They are nonsense predictions intended to frighten the public into accepting a socialist New World Order.

Ironically, those who believe these predictions are the same ones who would poke fun at the street corner prophets a decade or two ago. "The End Is Near," the signs read. And they were laughed off as goofballs. But today, those claiming that the end is near are being taken seriously, not because of religion but because of science — junk science.

Real science deals with real, known facts, not predictions or prophecies. And real science really does prove things, in contradiction to the notion that "science doesn’t prove anything," as one letter writer proclaims. While we can always trust real science, we can never trust junk science.

MONTE HEIL

Sagle