Sometimes the jokes write themselves in a completely different topic, even when they shouldn't.
· List topics · post a topic · subscribe · Google ·
Posted on 06/14/2025 8:16:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Will the junk science never end?
Why you gotta go all ethnic, why it gotta be a Black hole?
I have a theory too, it goes like this, the Black Hole ate too much and puked out our universe.
Hell, everyone knows the only thing that comes out of black holes is black poop.
The other name is Greek.
The only one that is Greek.
All the rest are Latin.
I think we can assume a joke. And since the joke has gone very stale I propose a return to Latin. For the sake of symmetry.
Yes, Uranus belongs in a symmetry...
Nice one!
The Covid fraud started to wake people up about issues with science.
Hopefully a new generation will rediscover the great historical debates over the philosophy of science—and radically restructure the way modern science is done.
The current system is a disaster.
Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week, try the veal...
The problem is the publish or perish paradigm at colleges\universities. For example a published scientific result is only “scientific (useful\worthwhile)” if it can be duplicated. There is no mechanism\incentive for scientists\graduate students to do that. You’re not going to get funding to show Dr Joe Blow’s result is true and students won’t get degrees participating & doing it either.
Given that its no wonder there’s a publication crisis!
I think there is a deeper issue.
Students get good grades and rewarded for answering “correctly”.
That means that if the “approved” science underlying the “correct” answer turns out to be false then the best students have been trained to say things that are false.
There are so many examples.
If graduate students in the 1970s published analysis arguing that Pluto was not a planet they would not have been published and would not have gotten their PHD.
It's publishing publishing, publishing which means grants grant grants!( often 50% for university overhead!) mean summer salaries, conference trips, graduate student tuition waivers and salaries, lab supplies, computer cost, etc. Money drives it all and money comes from grants which you get by having a publishing record.
Typo: mean = means
Right—but you don’t get to publish, publish, publish if your ideas are heretical.
It is not just publish or perish.
It is obey or perish.
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
It's the same problem with panspermia, makes sense comets could have populated life on Earth, but who created that life and when / how did it begin? That infinite reductive gives equal weight to life began here because why not?
Obviously this is all Almighty God's handiwork, but since God is in the details, I would like to know.
Black holes, dark matter and dark energy have never been seen by anyone.
They are totally theoretical and determined by equations.
It is entirely possible none of them exist at all.
If so future generations are going to have a good laugh at how dumb our scientists are.
Agree!
For all the claims that universities are home to and encourage new ideas. That absolutely false it’s go along to get along!
Sometimes the jokes write themselves in a completely different topic, even when they shouldn't.
You are not supposed to "trust the science", since science itself is all about questioning, not trusting, everything.
So, science's great moment is less about Archimedes running through town shouting "Eureka" ("I found it"), than it is about an obscure scientist somewhere pouring over data and, on finding an anomaly, saying, "Isn't that strange?"
Of course, scientific theories endlessly tested and confirmed are what keep our airplanes in the air, our ships floating at sea, our spaceships reaching their destinations, power plants generating electricity, etc., etc.
Those all have legitimate claims of our trust, but even so, how often do planes crash, ships sink, spaceships burn up and electric power goes out?
Not that often, but it does happen, and so "trust the science" is never, ever, 100%.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.