For the past 5-10 years I’d begun to think dark matter was being described as a thing itself instead of an unknown variable. As I read papers or listened to talks I noticed I’d been rolling my eyes. Over time I started feeling annoyed, like it was becoming a religious belief. Fast forward to today and we can watch events like Neil Degrasse Tyson telling Del Bigtree that general science is a religious cult and it’s a good thing. Sure, we need to have faith it’s a good thing but Neil says that’s all part of what makes it great.
Any scientist researching away from dogmatic beliefs is doing heroic work as far as I’m concerned. Thanks for highlighting this work.
Thanks, Zac. Science apart from dogmatism is where I live. It goes without saying that in science, I find a great deal that is useful and honest and sometimes brilliant. I focus on the places where I think established science is on shaky ground because that is my chosen niche, and because I hope that experimental anomalies are the seeds from which the next generation of science will grow.
The ones I know about are evolutionary biology and psychology.
Evolution has been corrupted by social Darwinism and the economic ideas of Milton Friedman. They want you to think that wildcat competition, every man for himself, is a viable way to produce a biosphere.
Doctor Becky has a video putting this new Chae study in context:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o8kaCUm2V8
You keep writing about really interesting things, Josh!
I saw you joined Dr. Setty in a visit with Dr. Nass:
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/meet-the-biggest-threat-to-the-global?
Here's something that starts to explain why it is so hard to take in the profundity of evil today:
https://mellob33.substack.com/p/trust-and-betrayal-how-to-destroy
For the past 5-10 years I’d begun to think dark matter was being described as a thing itself instead of an unknown variable. As I read papers or listened to talks I noticed I’d been rolling my eyes. Over time I started feeling annoyed, like it was becoming a religious belief. Fast forward to today and we can watch events like Neil Degrasse Tyson telling Del Bigtree that general science is a religious cult and it’s a good thing. Sure, we need to have faith it’s a good thing but Neil says that’s all part of what makes it great.
Any scientist researching away from dogmatic beliefs is doing heroic work as far as I’m concerned. Thanks for highlighting this work.
Thanks, Zac. Science apart from dogmatism is where I live. It goes without saying that in science, I find a great deal that is useful and honest and sometimes brilliant. I focus on the places where I think established science is on shaky ground because that is my chosen niche, and because I hope that experimental anomalies are the seeds from which the next generation of science will grow.
Theoretical physics being overextended is an interesting thought. The same might be true for science overall.
By "overextended" I mean that there is work building on a theoretical foundation that seems to be contradicted by experiment.
Yes, but if physics is getting out over its skis, just imagine the state of scientific fields whose tradition of rigor is weaker.
The ones I know about are evolutionary biology and psychology.
Evolution has been corrupted by social Darwinism and the economic ideas of Milton Friedman. They want you to think that wildcat competition, every man for himself, is a viable way to produce a biosphere.
Psychologists have been in denial about telepathy and precognition ever since Freud decided to hide what he discovered about the mind's modes of "Extraordinary Knowing" a century ago. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Extraordinary_Knowing/mxgghclkCg8C
Medical science is trash because the field has been corrupted by money. The healing power of anything out-of-patent is denied.