Ginny is on a whole other planet entirely!
Posted on 01/06/2023 3:23:27 PM PST by DeweyCA
Much of “science” is actually mysticism in the service of the “woke” element.
Scientific American, and now Discover, have abandoned science and are now slaves to the left.
This pure BS. If anything advanced students in all these countries are learning this. Put things on this page that make sense.
Science has become a race for the consensuses, not a slow search using the scientific method. Science can not advance on lies. If the consensuses is the earth is flat, then it slows down research that disputes the flat earth. If anthropomorphic global warming is the consensuses, then facts that contradict it will be ignored. Science has become to politically correct.
Well nearly all science is apparently settled now so......
“I disagreed. Just because we can imagine something, it doesnβt mean itβs achievable.”
I disagree with you on this. So did Albert Einstein. Here’s a quote attributed to him on imagination:
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Another one is: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
All the advancements now are in mass mind control.
If it were my job I guess I wouldn't try. I'd count the disruptions and put that against 45 million papers.
I asked once why he was working at a mid-level manufacturing company in the US.
He said it was because that any university research lab was run by "Steady Freddy" and your results had to fit into the model of what was already agreed on to be true.
I doubt US universities are any different.
There is no one solution to this quandary, but as is so often the case in modern society paring down the bureaucratic nature of the enterprise would be a great start. Famously productive scientific institutions like Bell Labs were based upon funding people, not projects in the main. Identify truly creative individuals and set them free with access to resources.
You will fund lots of dead ends, but also unleash creative energies that might get stifled in a traditional academic setting.
Albert EinsteinΒs great insights were developed not as an academic, but as a low-level staffer at the Swiss Patent Office. Why? Because no academic institution would hire him until he became famous.
There is a lesson to be learned there.
PIF:
"It was killed by the rise of consensus thinking. Out of the box? Pound it down, we have too much vested in our pert theories!"
seowulf:
"Researchers learn more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing at all."
God:
Genesis 11
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Game Over. It was time to actually accomplish something.
Identify truly creative individuals and set them free with access to resources.
Religious experts hit hardest..
Ginny is on a whole other planet entirely!
Of course itβs going to when woke, politically correct agenda dictates actual scientific research.
Those with knowledge becomes arrogant if the knowledge can never be questioned.
The scientist need humility to be productive and that is something that is in short supply in certain branches of science.
It is not that scientists are unique in that. It is a symptom of today’s society’s illness.
Back in the 1980's friends of mine studying anthropology at FSU complained that any discovery that was incongruent with accepted timelines was rejected and written off to bad collection technique or bad data. They would not accept, not matter how well documented, a discovery that went against the accepted timeline.
One student shared how they, on a dig in New Mexico, discovered pottery shards and tools in a layer indicating they were well over 20,000 years old. Since that is older than the established timeline for Native Americans to be living in North America, the student must have made a mistake. They had photographs, samples from earlier established layers, all kinds of supporting evidence, but the professor refused to acknowledge the find and threatened the student with being ejected from the program.
Now the existence of Paleo-indians is pretty much accepted and while these finds would be very early, it wouldn't be outside the bounds of "accepted" academia, but 40 years ago?
Many of his ideas came from others.
Might as well shut down the patent office.
The Dark Side never learns because it already knows everything already!
Crazy simple. I figure that darkness hates the light because there go all the grants, no-show “jobs”, and cocktail parties.
Revolutionary Cancer Vaccine Simultaneously Kills and Prevents Brain Tumors
Sounds like, once applied, they could kill all cancers.
I know ... yawn. ;-)
All science is now “settled.”
There is nothing more to learn.
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