As cold fusion events demonstrate, modern science is ruled by conformity

Medicine Science ^ | August 29, 2011 | Posted by aksell

[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion Ping List

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

http://medicine-science.com/as-cold-fusion-events-demonstrate-modern-science-is-ruled-by-conformity-not-the-search-for-scientific-truth/

[Kevmo]

The Cold Fusion Ping List
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/coldfusion/index?tab=articles

http://medicine-science.com/as-cold-fusion-events-demonstrate-modern-science-is-ruled-by-conformity-not-the-search-for-scientific-truth/

[allmost]

The term “cold fusion” is the restraint.

[hinckley buzzard]

Ignorant gibberish. Stop wasting time and space.

[aruanan]

I’ve often wondered why it is that conventionally trained medical doctors are so reluctant to venture outside the limited thinking of conventional medicine. Why are they hesitant to adopt new ideas and new theoretical models for the underlying causes of human health or disease? I think I have at least a partial answer to this question: Doctors only succeed in medical school or in acquiring publication of their studies when they conform with the views and beliefs of their peers. In other words, becoming a successfuldoctorin today’s political-medical environment requires being a conformist. People who are independent thinkers are filtered out of the process early on .

This is a caricature of medical science and science in general. There are always new ideas, models, and theories being proposed and adopted. The cynicism of the above quote is a means of saying, "Hey, you won't listen to what I believe to be true because you want to hold on to what you believe to be true. Therefore, what you claim to be true, unlike what I claim to be true, is only rationalized self-interest, and the fact that you oppose me means that I'm the truly independent thinker and more likely to be right." In spite of examples, even in science, of people behaving like people, it's still a fairly juvenile argument to make.

[Ronin]

Everything that is in this article can be said about the “settled” science of global warming as well.

[Kevmo]

Precisely.

Peer-review dogma in climate science and in science in general
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2777433/posts

[allmost]

You paint a broad statement. No argument. Your mindset would have us all pulling plows right now so just back off please. ;)

[Moonman62]

Ignorant gibberish.

Not to mention repetitive. Kevmo adds to his record every time he regurgitates this stuff from a blog.

[Ronin]

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert A. Heinlein

(I always liked that quote)

[webboy45]

Take Ohm for example. When he formulated Ohm’s law he was laughed at. He was fired from his teaching job because hadn’t based his theory on science. He was refused employment at the University because he had based his theory on too much science. He was ignored for 20 years until someone else discovered the same law. That’s how the scientific community operates.

[allmost]

Much of it is idiotic. Most ideas are. Neither of you argue the physical improbability so I assume you are a ‘fly by’ ass with nothing but derogatory lies.

[allmost]

I think this is BS. But worthy bs.

[aquila48]

“This is a caricature of medical science and science in general.”

Couldn’t agree more... If his thesis was correct we’d still be practicing alchemy and bleeding people.

With regard to medicine there’s thousands of people practicing and millions using “alternative medicine” from acupuncture to homeopathy to herbal treatments to shamanism to prayer to meditation and so on.

The reason these techniques are not as widely accepted as “mainstream” medicine is because they don’t work - at least for the vast majority of people. Were any to prove consistently effective, believe me, they would quickly gain widespread acceptance and use.

[allmost]

You don’t think meditation works in a beneficial way.

[count-your-change]

It ends up being a tout for quackery. Homeopathic medicine and the so-called “memory” of diluted water. Diluted with what? Still more water, it seems water can pass on its memory.

Purdue University did indeed run a “cold fusion” experiment but it was actually pretty hot as in millions of degrees hot.
The researchers used acoustic waves to cause cavitation in acetone and when the small bubbles collapsed atoms of deuterium fused. Useful and interesting but so what?

[aquila48]

“You don’t think meditation works in a beneficial way.”

Actually I use it myself - but for a lot of people it doesn’t seem to do much for them.

The point of the article was that mainstream medicine as a whole was somehow conspiring to keep “alternative” practices available. I simply don’t find that to be true. In fact in the case of meditation, many doctors recommend it for reducing stress.

Also quite a few doctors, like Dr Weill, have become quite famous in pursuing and advocating a “fusion” type of medicine that incorporates the best of both mainstream and “alternative” medicine.

[allmost]

You're weird. I like you.

[Candor7]

http://www.shambhala.org

[Wonder Warthog]

"Ignorant gibberish. Stop wasting time and space."

Well, I don't know about the medical part, but the suppression of cold fusion was (and is) very real. But the general tendency to enforced conformity is certainly there...there are many other examples.