Has Science lost the grandeur?
I remember being a child growing up my favorite class in school being science. I loved it so much that in fifth grade I was in the top 5 of all the MEAP scores in the state of Michigan. I never pursued science as a career but I never lost the love for it, that is up until a few years ago. I started to get the feeling something was not right, Stephen Hawking's Multiverse book and the theories on black holes were some of the things seemed to leave more questions than answers. In fact we reached a point were science stopped answering questions and started creating more. Not just a few but exponentially more. I was catching up on a few videos I had missed that were recently posted by the Thunderbolts Project on Youtube, when I had come across these comments posted below. It is nice to know I am not the only one feeling this way.
What is highlighted in yellow really stood out to me. I have been studying up on these subjects for a while now and they have definitely piqued my interest again in real science. I found it rather amusing that what was mentioned are exactly the same things that left me questioning how much do I trust science? (I am trying to refrain from using the term "mainstream")
Can science lie?
First lets define science. From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science we have 3 a: knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method. Oh we have one more thing to define, scientific method again from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scientific method which states: principles and procedures for the systematic pursuit of knowledge involving the recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses.
By these definitions, no science cannot lie. After all it is the scientific method that leads to a general truth or laws. So if science doesn't lie how are people loosing faith in science? Well we have the human factor. Humans can have motives to skew results, to fudge numbers or see something where nothing was. Why would scientists do such a thing if their field is in the pursuit of truth? The simplest answer I have found is funding. Go against the grain on a common belief and watch the funding for your research pulled.
Restoring the Glory.
Rupert Sheldrake has said it best when he stated that science has become a religion and so much so it even has dogmas (he has a really good book on the 5 dogmas of science). It is these dogmas that are holding science back from making the great leaps and discoveries as we were making a hundred or so years ago. We do have an ever growing number of scientists that are standing up and speaking out about this terrible run of bad dogmatic science. It is more and more looking like we are turning toward a crossroad and not just in physics or cosmology. One of the biggest caveats in science today is separation of specialties. Now more than ever scientists from multiple fields are coming together to share knowledge with each other which is opening more and more doors to pursue truth about life, the world and universe that we inhabit.
I will leave you will some videos about the subjects that restored my belief in the scientific community, hopefully they can rekindle your belief too.
Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion
Wallace Thornhill: The Elegant Simplicity of the Electric Universe
Graham Hancock - Discoveries of Ancient Civilizations
More on the Thunderbolts project: https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/
Youtube comments from this video: Plasmoids are the Power | Space News by Thunderbolts Project
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