Hi again—Merry Christmas btw.
I have many issues with scientists and modern science (as you probably can tell).
I find scientists:
—Arrogant while also easily scammed
—Unable to confront or even identify hidden assumptions in their thinking
—Susceptible to peer pressure and willing to fake findings (or remain silent if their superiors are faking it) if it advances their career
—Ignorant of the wild history of science (many “scientists” of the past talked to angels, talked to dead people through mediums, believed in eugenics, etc.)
—Demand “neatness” from nature to make their hypothesis or theories work, even though we now know from chaos theory that nature has no interest in “neatness”.
—Use “Occam’s Razor” to create tunnel vision and eliminate promising other approaches to issues
—Reject anecdotes as data even when the anecdotes are persistent over time regardless of culture
—Insist that humans were and are the most intelligent species on the planet (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence)
—Assume that time is a featureless dimension with no properties of its own—again without study or evidence
—Ignore almost everything that is important to human life and human action—”social science” makes the effort but has proven stunningly useless and subject to the same flaws as other sciences
Merry Christmas to you as well.
“Assume that time is a featureless dimension with no properties of its own”
Not sure what you mean by this one. Can you Explain?
(Totally agree with others.)