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Science is being performed outside the hallowed halls of science. Science has returned to the garage and the warehouse laboratory. Once again science is grass roots. It is in the hands of independent thinkers and imaginative experimentalists. It is most explicitly not in government, industry or education.
But, the scientists? Can they explain anything?? Even with medicine -- why does prozac work? Oh, it's a serotonin uptake inhibitor? And why does that matter? They don't know.
Cold fusion? Maybe its working, maybe its not working. How does it work? They don't know.
Global Warming? Can't measure the temperature, but you can measure CO2 so you know temperature is rising? Get serious.
No, I think science is done poorly these days. It got too ambitious and scientists began to think that they understood a lot of things that they don't understand at all.
It the diffrence between using
Reason to find truth to act on
vs
Rationalization for justification of your action
The politician and the government dangle research money on a stick in front of them, if you want it you must join our agenda of non fact, junk science, voodoo mystic, magical pull the rabbit out of a hat lies and non truths, ok?
On the Science Channel, the History Channel, NatGeo, TLC, and all the so-called “Learning Channels” there is a magical phrase that makes everything they present the gospel truth.
The phrase is ubiquitous and authoritative, and covers everything from Ancient Aliens, The Nazca Lines, Stonehenge, Black Holes, Neutron Stars, The Earth, Dinosaurs, Asteroids, Weather, Ancient Man, and The Bible.
The magical phrase even has alliteration and rolls off the tongue like an incantation from a high priest.
The Phrase?
“Some Scientists Say”.
I always wondered why people (now known as the "LSM") paid attention to Sagan, especially after he went off the deep end with his "nuclear Winter" intentionally misleading numbers and information, not to mention his out right lies.
Never liked what little I saw of the original "Cosmos" for some forgotten reason, and I'll be danged if I'm going to watch something with an intro by a bigger liar and thief.
Four spores out of a possible five!
Why, Thank You!
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Just tried to calculate if billions of seconds have passed since he died (Dec. 20, 1996), but at 31 million seconds per year, it has only been about half a billion seconds so far.
But it has been billions of seconds since he was born.
Bump
Cold fusion? Maybe its working, maybe its not working. How does it work? They don't know.So far, cold fusion has not been made to work in a lab or in the field. Even though some crackpots like to claim it.
Global Warming? Can't measure the temperature, but you can measure CO2 so you know temperature is rising? Get serious.The current temperature of the Earth is around 14.0-15.1°C, according to the World Meteorological Organization and other scientific organizations.
Greenfield makes some pretty quotable remarks here I thought. He exposes me as someone less glued to the tube, but I can catch on 7 replies later on FR.
Another aspect of science losing out on truth is medical science, to lawyers and huge paydays when public exposure for scientific purposes would be in the public's best interests.
Car mechanics have all kinds of information exchanges available with very detailed trial and error information. We'll need to force the free flow of scientific truth against the will of our political parties. The people. Left, right or whatever need to rein in this government.
Indeed! :-)
Settled science is whatever the highest bidder says it is.
I turned off this new cosmos when I heard, “where did Brutus celebrate his discovery? In jail of course.” That alone told me what this was going to be.
'Science' is a religion for the young, arrogant atheist addicted to technology. It is a shame they can not see the irony in their latest, favorite phrase that's making the rounds of the Internet: "Science, Bitches!"
The corruption of the medium extends to the corruption of the word itself. In the 60s through the 80s a "nerd" or a even "geek" (non chicken biting) brought up visions of book smart, but socially inept, introverts engaged in scientific endeavors. Now, perhaps with the complete failure of the education system, it is merely someone that likes comics, video games, television shows, movies, music and books that merely hint about science, fantasy, or technology. The nerds of the 70s BUILT something! The nerds of this generation mostly consume like the Pakleds in season 2 (episode 17) of Star Trek: The Next Generation, titled "Samaritan Snare". (sorry)
I'm sorry, but watching The Big Bang Theory and posting a meme based on what Neil Degrasse Tyson said on Bill Maher's show does not make you a true nerd, or a lover, or someone who "groks" science.
This is a new, ironic "science": A religion where the 'priests' (scientists) abandon the "scripture" and "commandments", i.e., tradition, and replace it with humanism/agenda driven politics. And it's churchgoers are just as uneducated, ignorant, and closed minded as they claim "non believers" (Christians) to be.
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