Click to Subscribe
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.
Who Created These Norms Anyway?
Clown or Hyena, It Doesn't Matter to Me
I Hate Bus Drivers
guest authors
Crackpot Podcast Ep 1 Now on RSS
eBook
predation
eBook
time & cosmos
eBook
the sunset saga complete
eBook
the greatest lie ever sold
eBook
your trojan whorse
eBook
dark, distant futures
eBook
solo boxing
eBook
triumph
Lynn     Oct 18, 2017

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.
PR     Oct 18, 2017

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.
  Add a new comment below:
Name
Email
Message