Science as Prostitution

[Pentcho]

Bryan Wallace http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm :

 

"The true scientist must have faith and believe in the scientific method of testing theories, and not in the theories themselves. I agree with Seeds argument that "A pseudoscience is something that pretends to be a science but does not obey the rules of good conduct common to all sciences." Because many of the dominant theories of our time do not follow the rules of science, they should more properly be labeled pseudoscience. The people who tend to believe more in theories than in the scientific method of testing theories, and who ignore the evidence against the theories they believe in, should be considered pseudoscientists and not true scientists. To the extent that the professed beliefs are based on the desire for status, wealth, or political reasons, these people are scientific prostitutes."

 

Pentcho Valev

[swansont]

And your point is?

 

This is posted in "Relativity" Is there some part of relativity you think isn't backed up by experimentation?

[sunspot]

Testing theory via the scientific method is ideal. But experiments needed for some theories are out the reach due to a limited amount of resources. Should one just stop due to lack experiemental opportunity or should one continue forward, hoping that they can eventually prove a theory with old and new data that was generated for other purposes? Cosmology theory would be hard to directly prove yet contemplation of such has created insight into particles physics where experiments can be conducted.

[Phi for All]

Threads that start by repeating something found on the internet and then give no personal POV on the subject are not welcome on this forum. Thanks for sniffing out this interesting article and doing our Google work for us.

 

But no thanks.