Science is an unending investigation. Nothing is sacred, nothing is taken on trust. If a well established theory is contradicted by the evidence, so much the worse for the theory. At least that is how science worked before the present age of fools, knaves and demagogues.
Trust is Not How Science Works
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And when an agenda narrative is confronted with data that doesn’t support the science the technology Lords jump in and censor it.
That is evil, imo
Once upon a time, when you said to a scientist “that doesn’t make sense” they would either show you how it did make sense (through evidence) or agree with you and show interest in resolving that mystery.
Recently the response to the observation that something doesn’t make sense has been a pompous shouting down and the label of “heretic”
Sounds… Like…what…they…accuse … Christians…of…..
Not exactly..
We know things with varying degrees of assurance. Some things we know are probably true, some things we know as true beyond a reasonable doubt, and some things we know for sure.
There are very few things we know for sure.
Such things are usually abstract, often mathematical.
Einstein didn’t prove Newton wrong, he proved that Newton didn’t get it exactly right, and Einstein humbly realized he may not have gotten exactly right.
The problem today is of course that “science” has become a political weapon, always presented as immutable , to an audience that arrogantly think of themselves as “the enlightened” (with cell phones), but know a lot less than Newton did.
Problem with some science today is the propagation of speculation as fact. Predictions in 2000 that the earth would reach the temperature tipping point in 12 years were worse than speculation, they were fear mongering of the worst sort. Same goes for RNA vaccines as a miracle product when even the minimum standards of effectiveness are in question. Television is an example of the previous cautionary nature of science. It was promoted as a theory in the early 1920s but no one declared it a fact until 1927 when Farnsworth demonstrated it. Further it was not until the 1939 World’s Fair that the public was willing to accept it as a future universal commercial reality. It would seem that a bit more scientific humility along with more rigorous dedication to determining reality by scientists would benefit everyone.
Nate Silver of all people should know why: when your predictions are consistently wrong, anyone who cares about the proof is not going to care about your future predictions.
I think if we honestly examine history, we’ll find science has long been subject to…less than objective sentiment.
Scientists have their biases too.
“Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion.” Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner for work in quantum electordynamics.That quote says it all.
Or, rather, says it as it should be, but perhaps not is.
Encoded in Thos. Kuhn’s model is the notion that the actuarial tables are what induces the discard of scientific theories.
Art Deco:<i> “that the actuarial tables are what induces the discard of scientific theories.”</i> Not true if you look from 1880 to 1970 and how revolutionary theories became accepted. E.g. Strange QM theories (e.g DeBroglie’s matter waves) confirmed by experiment (Davisson-Germer experiment).
Since when have the media ever been “science adjacent?” Most media operatives wouldn’t know actual science if it bit them in the perineum.
I do not trust the man who claimed “I am science”.
I do not trust the cdc, fda and all the other alphabet organizations.
In my book, it’s too far gone to trust them again.
When you silence opposition and dissenting voice, force an experimental medicine on people under penalty of losing your livelihood, I believe we have well past the “kiss and make up” phase. I’m ready for trials.
Clinical psychology and psychiatry have always been dubious endeavours. Climatologists began trashing their reputation about thirty years ago. Public health specialists have set a land speed record for destroying their credibility.
Art Deco Max Planck is reported to have said: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
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When people talk about following the science a lot of it appears to be political science.
“Nothing is sacred,”
Every thing is sacred. Every person is sacred. All creation is sacred.