Casting Doubt on SCIENCE! as a Religion
The Butthole Surfer
© 2017 James LaFond
OCT/17/17
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist, not a physicist.
You know what? It doesn't matter.
Most discoveries are made by outsiders because insiders suffer from einstellung - ingroup mental walls over which few insiders can see. They also say that science progresses one death at a time: the old men who are the gatekeepers of the religion can't see the problems with their beliefs and have no incentive to admit they were wrong because TENURE and PRESTIGE
-The Butthole Surfer
Oh, dauntless surfer, I have thought, for perhaps 7 years, that the religious orientation of modernity is materialism, as opposed to monotheism or polytheism. I have lately come to suspect, over the past two years, that science is the Scripture to the materialistic faith and that social justice is its Gospel. Thank you so much for this find.
Clown or Hyena, It Doesn't Matter to Me
when you're food
hate
sons of aryas
song of the secret gardener
broken dance
uncle satan
all-power-fighting
the gods of boxing
on combat
america the brutal
on the overton railroad
triumph
solo boxing
book of nightmares
let the world fend for itself
masculine axis
cracker-boy
logic of force
into leviathan’s maw
menthol rampage
songs of aryas
the combat space
dark, distant futures
fanatic
thriving in bad places
your trojan whorse
the sunset saga complete
advent america
under the god of things
within leviathan’s craw
honor among men
winter of a fighting life
taboo you
blue eyed daughter of zeus
time & cosmos
logic of steel
the fighting edge
the greatest lie ever sold
ranger?
orphan nation
predation
by the wine dark sea
night city
barbarism versus civilization
the greatest boxer
beasts of aryas
sorcerer!
fiction anthology one
son of a lesser god
fate
the first boxers
the year the world took the z-pill
wife—
the lesser angels of our nature
z-pill forever
Taleb makes a strong case that most innovations are made by "tinkerers," the scientists come later and fill in the theory. The major creativity come from practice and filters down to theory not vice versa, a major example being the jet engine.
Lynn,
Is that in one of his books? What you say makes perfect sense since tinkerers have to support themselves financially and SCIENCE! is now mostly charity for smart people who aren't ever on the hook for a working product.