"Hard mistress" nghĩa là gì?

covid-19, đừng tin mù quáng, như nghe theo giáo sĩ thời Trung cổ...

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Peter Hitchens decries the continuing grip that Covid Derangement Syndrome has on Britain. A slice:

Science is a hard mistress, which simply discards beliefs (vứt bỏ niềm tin) that have been overthrown (lật đổ) by experiment (thực nghiệm). What the zealots (người cuồng tín; người quá khích) have is reverence for individual scientists who happen to agree with them, a very different thing. In fact, it is much like the medieval religious view (quan điểm tôn giáo thời Trung cổ), that anything spoken from on high must be accepted.

I’ve pointed out on these pages the fascinating presence, among the Covid Commissars, of Professor Susan Michie, a Communist so hardline that her more liberal comrades (đồng chí) once searched her baby’s pram (xe đẩy trẻ con) for pro-Moscow propaganda.

I’d also note that her zone of expertise is psychology, not medicine or biochemistry, as you might be tempted to think from her frequent appearances in debates on Covid matters.

But I think she is really there because she can see, as many others like her do, that this is an unrivalled chance to turn Britain permanently into a country where people who think they are good and clever can boss the rest of us around.

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