{"id":407951,"date":"2025-10-13T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407951"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:49:27","slug":"the-technocrats-are-falling-as-their-ideology-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=407951","title":{"rendered":"The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"453\" data-attachment-id=\"407955\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=407955\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQPOsHaJB82dIWyXQueutk8JpK-pMv4y1YlKm91AFn-VMO3UkHe31uIR5TYvm1guA8KBBIcLhh0LfwcgTKDrZC7mxexDcuaO3JfDOApX5DI7UrvWfkJzNrSHVQdSWlD_-1.jpeg?fit=1283%2C803&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1283,803\" 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Substack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@tilakdoshi\">Tilak Doshi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"360\" data-attachment-id=\"407650\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=407650\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQMrSnEpgoW0Qq1B2I9r8uA5k2raOMylwNF7NiFGe5ncSHy8Gu3wlChTeUA7m65HJ5okUt7qgNnTotKptwV41qowfZGdiBHn4YZcVl2TLnvJfaLQ3MFoTGGG7l1CAcw4.jpeg?fit=1106%2C551&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1106,551\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQMrSnEpgoW0Qq1B2I9r8uA5k2raOMylwNF7NiFGe5ncSHy8Gu3wlChTeUA7m65HJ5okUt7qgNnTotKptwV41qowfZGdiBHn4YZcVl2TLnvJfaLQ3MFoTGGG7l1CAcw4.jpeg?resize=768%2C383&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AQMrSnEpgoW0Qq1B2I9r8uA5k2raOMylwNF7NiFGe5ncSHy8Gu3wlChTeUA7m65HJ5okUt7qgNnTotKptwV41qowfZGdiBHn4YZcVl2TLnvJfaLQ3MFoTGGG7l1CAcw4.jpeg?w=1106&amp;ssl=1 1106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a panel discussion and book launch on\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/freespeechunion.org\/event\/the-war-on-science-with-richard-dawkins-lawrence-m-krauss-and-guests\/?v=7885444af42e\">The War on Science<\/a><\/em>\u00a0hosted by the Free Speech Union on Saturday in London, Richard Dawkins reminded his audience of the Lysenko saga in the Soviet Union. The famed British evolutionary biologist noted the parallel between today\u2019s pseudoscience regarding gender and Soviet pseudoscience regarding plant genetics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the annals of scientific infamy, few episodes rival the Lysenko tale. Under the iron patronage of Joseph Stalin and later Nikita Khrushchev, the pernicious Soviet doctrine subordinated biology to Marxist-Leninist ideology. The charlatan agronomist Trofim Lysenko peddled the delusion that acquired traits could be inherited \u2014 a scientific fantasy dressed in proletarian garb. He promised bumper harvests through \u201cvernalisation\u201d of seeds and other quackery, rejecting the \u201cbourgeois science\u201d of Mendelian genetics as elitist sabotage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result? Purges of genuine scientists, like the tragic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kew.org\/read-and-watch\/the-tragic-tale-of-nikolai-vavilov\">Nikolai Vavilov<\/a>, who starved in a gulag for daring to defend empirical truth; famines that claimed millions of lives; and a generation of Soviet biology crippled by dogma. Lysenkoism wasn\u2019t mere error; it was the weaponisation of science for political ends where dissent was treason and evidence was expendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast-forward to our own era, and the parallels are as chilling as they are uncanny. Over the past two decades, we have witnessed an ideological capture of science no less insidious, though cloaked in the virtuous robes of DEI, \u2018climate justice\u2019 and public health. In the realms of climate policy and COVID-19 response, institutions that were once bastions of rigorous inquiry \u2014 the United Nations, the European Union, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and peer-reviewed journals \u2014 have been co-opted by a progressive ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here, \u2018consensus\u2019 trumps data, alarmism supplants scepticism and dissenting voices are not imprisoned but \u2018cancelled\u2019, smeared as \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Climate_change_denial\">climate deniers<\/a>\u2018 or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10324873\/Emails-reveal-Fauci-head-NIH-colluded-try-smear-experts-called-end-lockdowns.html\">fringe epidemiologists<\/a>\u201c. The human toll? Skyrocketing energy prices that impoverish the working classes while denying fossil fuels to the energy-starved in the developing world; Covid lockdowns that ravaged economies and children\u2019s futures; and mRNA \u2018vaccines\u2019 rushed to market without full transparency, now linked to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gatewaypundit\/status\/1975314195265597521\">mounting reports of adverse events<\/a>. Billions worldwide have borne the brunt, from African villages \u2018leapfrogging\u2019 onto unreliable green energy at the behest of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/09\/19\/europes-days-of-carbon-colonialism-are-numbered\/\">Western moralisers<\/a>, to schoolchildren masked and isolated in the name of a virus that posed them negligible risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, in a twist that history\u2019s ironists might appreciate, the re-election of Donald J. Trump in 2024 has ignited a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/reflections-on-the-counter-revolution-in-america\/\">counter-revolution<\/a>. His Executive Order issued in May 2025, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/fact-sheets\/2025\/05\/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-is-restoring-gold-standard-science-in-america\/\">Restoring Gold Standard Science in America<\/a>\u2018, is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/06\/20\/why-trumps-gold-standard-executive-order-is-essential-to-restoring-truth-in-science\/\">no mere bureaucratic flourish<\/a>. By mandating transparency, reproducibility and the open exchange of ideas in federal science, the Trump administration has begun dismantling the edifice of politicised expertise. Emerging data on the harms of Net Zero dogma and Covid interventions \u2014 grounded in physics, economics and evidence-based medicine \u2014 bolster this fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time in many years, there is genuine hope. The populist revolt may yet vanquish the forces that held science hostage in many realms of contentious public policy, restoring it as a tool for human flourishing rather than elite control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Ghost of Lysenko: Ideology Over Evidence in Modern Dress<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To grasp the depth of our contemporary Lysenkoism, one must revisit its archetype. Lysenko\u2019s rise in the 1930s was greased by Stalin\u2019s hunger for rapid industrialisation&nbsp;<em>sans<\/em>&nbsp;\u2018Western\u2019 genetics, which he deemed incompatible with \u2018dialectical materialism\u2019. Lysenko\u2019s \u2018Michurinist\u2019 biology posited that the environment could swiftly remake organisms \u2014 crops \u2018toughened\u2019 by cold exposure, for example. Dissenters were branded \u2018wreckers\u2019, their careers ruined, their lives often forfeited. Agricultural output plummeted, exacerbating the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/science\/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps\/disastrous-effects-lysenkoism-soviet-agriculture\">Holodomor famine<\/a>&nbsp;and other disasters. Khrushchev, succeeding Stalin in 1953, doubled down, turning arable steppes into dustbowls. Only after Khrushchev\u2019s 1964 ouster did the Politburo, under Brezhnev, allow modern genetics\u2019 quiet revival \u2014 Lysenko retired in obscurity, dying in 1976, his legacy a scar on Soviet science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today\u2019s variant is subtler, yet no less destructive. In climate science, the alarmist cult of anthropogenic global warming is epitomised by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/03\/09\/mark-steyn-has-the-last-laugh\/\">Michael Mann<\/a>&nbsp;and his concocted \u2018hockey stick\u2019 graph which has been de-bunked as a statistical sleight-of-hand. Mann himself has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2025\/03\/michael-mann-sanctioned-for-false-testimony-bad-faith.php\">exposed<\/a>&nbsp;as someone who \u201cacted in bad faith\u201d in court when he and his lawyers \u201cpresented erroneous evidence and made false representations to the jury\u201d. Yet, his alarmist hockey stick chart has been enshrined by powerful institutions such as the UN and its agencies such as the IPCC. Net Zero by 2050 isn\u2019t policy; it\u2019s dogma, enforced through subsidies for intermittent wind and solar that balloon energy costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK\u2019s pursuit of this mirage has saddled households with electricity prices&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/watt-logic.com\/2025\/05\/19\/new-report-the-true-affordability-of-net-zero\/\">four times<\/a>&nbsp;those in the US, driving de-industrialisation and \u00a3220 billion in excess consumer costs since 2006. Green levies added $17 billion to UK bills in 2023-24 and are projected to hit $20 billion by 2029-30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t science; it\u2019s Lysenkoism redux. The IPCC\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/rogerpielkejr.substack.com\/p\/climate-cooking\">RCP8.5 model scenario<\/a>&nbsp;is now admitted as being extremely implausible by its own authors. Yet it is pushed by billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg among others to justify hamstringing fossil fuels, the bedrock of human progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developing nations fare worse: the illusion of African countries \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/06\/30\/africas-renewable-leapfrog-is-a-dangerous-mirage\/\">leapfrogging<\/a>\u2018 into renewables denies them coal and gas for power plants, condemning billions of people to energy poverty. Meanwhile, the larger developing countries such as China and India which are not at the mercy of climate-related financial vetoes imposed by the World Bank and the IMF build&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2024\/12\/coal-use-hits-record-high-in-2024-thanks-to-india-and-china\/\">coal-fired plants unabated at a sharp pace<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Wright, US Energy Secretary, has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/11\/23\/trumps-energy-secretary-pick-chris-wright-climate-denier-or-energy-pragmatist\/\">argued<\/a>&nbsp;that fossil fuels have lifted billions of people from destitution and that blocking coal plants in Africa is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cornwallalliance.org\/u-s-energy-secretary-offers-africa-freedom-from-climate-imperialism\/\">hypocritical<\/a>&nbsp;and tantamount to \u201ccarbon colonialism\u201d. The UN\u2019s globalist agenda, seeded by billionaire foundations like the Gates and Soros foundations and assorted front organisations, funnels billions to NGOs like Greenpeace, WWF and Friends of Earth, which lobby for policies that enrich the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB124286145192740987\">climate industrial complex<\/a>\u2018 while pauperising the masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No less egregious is the Covid saga, where Lysenko-like figures \u2014 Anthony Fauci, former head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Francis Collins, former director of the National Institutes of Health \u2014 orchestrated a censorship blitz against evidence-based dissent. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gbdeclaration.org\/\">Great Barrington Declaration<\/a>, published in October 2020 by Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford), Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), and Sunetra Gupta (Oxford), advocated \u201cfocused protection\u201d for the vulnerable over blanket lockdowns in keeping with pre-2020 public health orthodoxy. Fauci and Collins, in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/opinion\/fauci-collins-emails-great-barrington-declaration-covid-pandemic-lockdown-11640129116\">leaked emails<\/a>, plotted to \u201ctake down\u201d this \u201cfringe\u201d threat, smearing its authors as dangerous quacks. Further lockdowns ensued: schools shuttered, economies cratered and children \u2014 forcibly face-masked and socially starved \u2014 suffered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1526054224000745\">developmental delays<\/a>, mental health spikes and learning losses equivalent to half a year\u2019s progress according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.uis.unesco.org\/disruptions-due-to-school-closures\/\">UNESCO data<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The global Covid hysteria was fuelled by a March 2020 bombshell report by Professor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/neil-ferguson-transformed-uk-covid-response-oxford-challenge-imperial-model-2020-4?IR=T\">Neil Ferguson<\/a>&nbsp;of Imperial College, London, which forecast 510,000 deaths in the country without immediate lockdowns. Within a few weeks, Ferguson\u2019s predicted half a million fatalities in the UK was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/imperial-college-scientist-who-predicted-500k-coronavirus-deaths-in-uk-revises-to-20k-or-less\">adjusted downward<\/a>&nbsp;to \u201cunlikely to exceed 20,000\u201d, reducing the fearful statistic by 25 times. It was later found that Dr Ferguson\u2019s model was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aier.org\/article\/the-failure-of-imperial-college-modeling-is-far-worse-than-we-knew\/\">not fit for purpose<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This modern-day British Lysenko later resigned his governmental advisory position after being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/may\/05\/uk-coronavirus-adviser-prof-neil-ferguson-resigns-after-breaking-lockdown-rules\">busted for breaking the very same lockdown rules<\/a>&nbsp;he helped impose on the country. His junk model played a key role in the rationale for lockdowns around the world, particularly after the United Kingdom and United States governments explicitly invoked his report as a justification for lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cost of the Covid lockdowns runs into trillions. According to IMF data, global&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10030258\/#bib0037\">GDP declined by 3.0% in 2020<\/a>, a stark reversal from the 2.8% growth recorded in 2019. In absolute terms, with global GDP at approximately $84.9 trillion in 2020, the 3.0% contraction equates to roughly $2.5 trillion in lost output \u2014 equivalent to the combined economies of several major nations. The IMF&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Blogs\/Articles\/2020\/04\/14\/blog-weo-the-great-lockdown-worst-economic-downturn-since-the-great-depression\">projected<\/a>&nbsp;a cumulative impact over the two years 2020-21 of an estimated $9 trillion. The human toll, especially in the developing countries without welfare nets from broken supply chains, loss of trade and livelihoods can only be guessed at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These policies were not born of evidence but of ideology. They were a technocratic fusion of precautionary panic and fanciful model-building. As in Lysenko\u2019s era, the epidemiological modelers and bureaucrats working in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/zaxdzs4751\/files\/downloads\/Books\/GW%20Reg%20Studies%20-%20Stigler%2C%20The%20Economic%20Theory%20of%20Economic%20Regulation%20-%20CCoglianese.pdf\">captured regulatory agencies<\/a>&nbsp;such as the CDC and the NIH ascended, while sceptics \u2013 such as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@rwmalonemd\">Robert Malone<\/a>&nbsp;who played a role in inventing mRNA technology \u2013 were exiled to Substack purgatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Populist Reckoning: Trump\u2019s Gold Standard for Scientific Research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enter Trump 2.0 \u2014 a populist bulldozer against the modern Lysenkoist edifice. Trump\u2019s 2025 executive order on \u201cgold standard science\u201d isn\u2019t \u2018anti-science\u2019 as Left-liberal outlets like&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-025-01668-x\">Nature<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/science-s-reform-movement-should-have-seen-trump-s-call-gold-standard-science-coming\">Science<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>charge. When the act of exposing ideological science is branded \u2018ideological\u2019, psycho-political projection is complete. Reinstating scientific integrity policies, mandating data transparency and protecting dissenting views are antidotes to weaponised science. Agencies must now disclose uncertainties, falsify models rigorously and eschew political meddling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For instance, it is not \u2018anti-science\u2019 to ensure that the farce of the extended Covid school closures, imposed by CDC guidance which was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/mar\/30\/republican-report-shows-teachers-unions-helped-cdc\/\">influenced by the country\u2019s second largest teachers\u2019 union<\/a>, does not ever occur again. Making implausible climate modelling scenarios like RCP8.5 no longer credible in publicly financed climate research is not \u2018Right-wing\u2019 science. Rather it keeps scientists honest, however committed they might personally be to tell the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/against-noble-lie-covid-19-edition\">noble lie<\/a>\u2018 for a greater cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lysenko fell amid continued crop failures after the protection Khrushchev\u2019s patronage ended. Anthony Fauci now faces continued Congressional probes and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2025\/sep\/10\/emails-show-anthony-fauci-ordered-documents-destroyed-lied-congress\/\">possible charges<\/a>\u00a0for perjury and other offences in his role over public health policy during the Covid hysteria despite his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/now-we-know-why-fauci-got-a-pardon\/ar-AA1Mzm5X\">pre-emptive pardon<\/a>\u00a0by President Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">History saw rehabilitations of Soviet scientists who followed Lysenko like Andrei Sakharov and others who quietly preserved genetic research. In our times, we see Jay Bhattacharya, once accused of being \u201cfringe\u201d and cancelled by mainstream media, is now the NIH newly appointed Director. He is guiding the agency towards evidence-based medicine and vowing probes into mRNA transparency lapses. Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the scourge of Big Pharma and now US Health Secretary, champions vaccine injury compensation and transparent, randomised and placebo-controlled trials to measure vaccine efficacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Restoration of Reason<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s re-election does not guarantee a new golden age of science. Bureaucracies are resilient; vested interests die hard. The climate-industrial complex \u2014 banks, consultancies, NGOs and subsidy-hungry, rent-seeking corporations in the renewables space \u2014 will not surrender easily. Nor will Big Pharma, whose financial windfalls from the Covid pandemic fuelled intense lobbying in the US Congress and bought political loyalty across both parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet there is something profoundly hopeful in the moment. For the first time in decades, the presumption of infallibility that shielded technocrats is cracking. The dogma of \u2018settled science\u2019 is being replaced by renewed curiosity, even humility. Physicists, economists and epidemiologists are reclaiming the terrain of open inquiry. Social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook are now openly claiming that they will now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/07\/business\/meta-boss-mark-zuckerberg-says-facebook-will-end-fact-checking\/\">not censor dissenting voices<\/a>&nbsp;with \u2018fact-checks\u2019 like they did under the previous administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In energy, this means acknowledging physical realities: that wind and solar cannot replace dense and reliable fossil fuels without catastrophic costs; that hydrocarbons remain indispensable to modern life; and that innovation, not prohibition, drives environmental progress. In medicine, it means demanding long-term safety data, transparent trials and honest communication about health risks and benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are not partisan demands. They are the foundations for human flourishing. When societies abandon them, suffering follows \u2014 whether in Stalin\u2019s Ukraine or in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2024\/12\/27\/germanys-economic-and-political-suicide\/\">self-inflicted energy crises<\/a>&nbsp;of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The New Enlightenment or the Last Stand?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The parallels between Lysenko\u2019s Soviet Union and the Western technocracies of the early 21st century are sobering. Both replaced empirical inquiry with ideological certainty. Both persecuted dissenters as enemies of the state. Both sacrificed the well-being of millions on the altar of utopian theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite censorship, truth eventually emerges. The physics of energy, the economics of growth, the biology of disease \u2014 these are realities that cannot be legislated away. As evidence accumulates on the failures of Net Zero policies and the harms of pandemic overreach, the edifice of progressive technocracy is crumbling under its own contradictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The great art historian Kenneth Clark, reflecting on the fragility of civilisation, remarked that Western man had survived the Dark Ages \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cWKNGh7dbkw\">by the skin of our teeth<\/a>\u201d. We might say the same today. The victory of a populist coalition over the globalist establishment \u2014 symbolised by Trump\u2019s return \u2014 has bought us time. We can also perceive a wider populist wave in the resurgence of parties such as the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Germany, Reform UK and the National Rally in France. The momentum of the populist wave in the collective West can also be seen in the recent election victory of the conservative-populist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/czech-republic-trumpist-ex-pm-babis-wins-elections\/a-74235346\">Andrej Babis<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 a self-proclaimed \u201cTrumpist\u201d \u2014 in the Czech Republic and the shock win in Japan\u2019s LDP party elections by \u201cconservative\u201d leader&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/japan-takaichi-liberal-democrats-first-prime-minister-5c7ad37c6148087b17dcf427c4b23b37\">Sanae Takaichi<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 an admirer of Margaret Thatcher \u2013 who is set to be the next Prime Minister of Japan. We also see the Rightward shift in politics in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/viktor-orban-robert-fico-derail-europe-unity-ukraine-london-summit\/\">continued opposition<\/a>&nbsp;of Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n and Slovakia\u2019s Robert Fico against the globalist policies pushed by Brussels\u2019 sprawling EU bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The battle, however, is far from over. The same foundations and billionaires \u2014 Gates, Soros, Bloomberg, Rockefeller \u2014 continue to pour billions into NGOs that propagate climate alarmism and pandemic fears. The modern-day clerics of virtue will not yield easily. But the tide seems to be turning. Independent journalists, scientists and citizens are reclaiming the narrative. Platforms once silenced are now flourishing. The public appetite for truth, after years of manipulation, is insatiable. The explosive growth of X, reaching over&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/backlinko.com\/twitter-users\">560 million active users<\/a>, attracts users weary of censored platforms and is one indicator of the public\u2019s desire for un-curated news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story of Lysenkoism is a warning from history: when science serves ideology, catastrophe follows. The 20th century paid that price in blood and famine. The 21st has flirted with a softer, subtler version \u2014 one that replaced gulags with cancellation, executions with de-platforming, but sought the same end: control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s re-election represents a repudiation of that control in the West. For now, at least, reason has a fighting chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This was first published at the Daily Sceptic ( <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/10\/10\/the-technocrats-are-falling-as-their-ideology-fails\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/10\/10\/the-technocrats-are-falling-as-their-ideology-fails\/<\/a> )<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dr Tilak K. Doshi is the&nbsp;<\/em>Daily Sceptic<em>\u2018s Energy Editor. He is an economist, a member of the CO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;Coalition and a former contributor to Forbes. 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