[bvw]

The main stream media (MSM) met and fell to the internet, the WWW browser, the forums such as this and the blogs. The light of Truth was redsicovered -- it had been hidden under a heavy mantle of pre-digested comfortable pablum served up twice a day at regular times by the media. Such feedings had trained adults to be baby-like, there were many Santa Clauses and Tinkerbelles. They are not quite eradicated either. Yet the light of Democracy of and Book and Quill open before all, are driving them off thr stage of history. Next Act!

And so too "science" -- that "science" exactly as you defined. Institutionalized science is the modern version of the Medeival High Church of Rome. It may well fall -- as you called it!

Will it -- in its lengthly throes of death -- parallel the Church's decline? Will we have an Inquisition? Are we having one?

[RightWhale]

Science will end except for a few dilletantes and philosophers once we move off-planet and the State loses its stranglehold on individuals.