Scientific Lobbies

Organized interest groups within the scientific community—whether aligned with specific industries (pharma, fossil fuels), ideological camps, or dominant academic paradigms—that use their influence, funding power, and control over prestigious journals and conferences to steer research priorities, suppress dissenting findings, and shape public perception to favor their interests. They turn the scientific process into a political battlefield.

Example: For decades, Scientific Lobbies funded by the sugar industry successfully directed nutrition research toward blaming fat for heart disease, published favorable studies in major journals, and marginalized scientists pointing to sugar's role, distorting public health guidelines for a generation.

by Dumu The Void February 4, 2026

rube and lubbers

A term coined by Lucky Pierre, the captain of the butt piracy ship "The Brown Swallow", to refer to lube and rubbers.

Captain Lucky Pierre had a reputation among seafaring butt pirates for sliding himself into the middle of the action so that, while he was being gleefully penetrated from astern, he in turn was plundering the poop deck of another of the hardy butt pirates who comprised his crew of slippery sea men.

That's why any butt piracy ship under his command always carried a hold full of rube and lubbers, so avast ye and prepare to be boarded!

by bitchuck April 24, 2025

Theory of Scientific Lobbies

The theory that scientific knowledge is shaped not just by evidence but by organized interests—lobbies that fund research, control publication, shape public perception, and influence policy. Scientific Lobbies argues that science is not a pure pursuit of truth but a field of struggle where different groups advance different agendas. Pharmaceutical companies fund studies that favor their drugs; fossil fuel companies fund climate denial; ideological foundations fund research that supports their worldviews. This doesn't mean all science is corrupt; it means science is political, that knowledge is power, that the question is not whether interests shape science but whose interests, and toward what ends. The Theory of Scientific Lobbies explains why scientific consensus sometimes aligns with corporate interests, why some questions get studied and others ignored, why "follow the science" is more complicated than it sounds.

Theory of Scientific Lobbies Example: "She used to think science was above politics. Then she learned about the tobacco lobby, the fossil fuel lobby, the pharmaceutical lobby—how they'd funded research, suppressed findings, shaped public debate. The Theory of Scientific Lobbies showed her that science was a battlefield, not a sanctuary. The knowledge was real, but so was the struggle over it."

by Abzugal February 21, 2026

Theory of Logical Lobbies

The theory that logic itself is shaped by organized interests—that what counts as logical is influenced by those who have the power to define logical norms. Logical Lobbies argues that logic is not neutral but political, that different logical systems serve different interests, that the teaching of logic is never innocent. Schools teach certain logical norms; courts enforce certain reasoning standards; media reward certain argument styles. These aren't just technical choices; they're power moves, ways of privileging some ways of thinking over others. The Theory of Logical Lobbies explains why some arguments are heard and others dismissed, why some reasoning is celebrated and others marginalized, why logic is never just logic.

Example: "He'd always thought logic was neutral—just the rules of thought. The Theory of Logical Lobbies showed him otherwise: who decided those rules? Who benefited? Who was excluded? Logic wasn't just logic; it was politics by other means. The rules of reason had rulers—and the rulers had interests."

by Abzugal February 21, 2026