What is a Scientific Fact? Laying Bare the Heuristics

by Asa Boxer

The above shotgun graph is from the introduction to the Club of Rome’s publication The Limits to Growth (1972) and represents the rationale for why wealthy elites are in a unique position to set globalist policy and take political control over the masses the world over. The underlying assumption is that the working class is not and cannot be forward-thinking, and the model represents this assumption as data-based. The data however do not in themselves evince this assumption. What the graph reveals is that globalist perspectives are necessarily reductive and at odds with the individual because they view individuals as mere %-categories and as subordinate to populations (“populations,” “masses” and “demographics” being globalist frames of reference). Accordingly, the phenomena of individuals are made to fit demographic models underwritten by misguided assumptions. The Club of Rome’s approach here is carried through to its perceptions of the natural world, as the rest of the graphs and c…