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Trials and Errors: Why Science Is Failing Us
Lanxon writes "An in-depth feature in Wired explores the reason science may be failing us. Quoting: 'For too long, we've pretended that the old problem of causality can be cured by our shiny new knowledge. If only we devote more resources to research or dissect the system at a more fundamental level or search for ever more subtle correlations, we can discover how it all works. But a cause is not a fact, and it never will be; the things we can see will always be bracketed by what we cannot. And this is why, even when we know everything about everything, we'll still be telling stories about why it happened. It's mystery all the way down.'"
Yeah, try telling that to a "climatologist".
http://www.real-science.com/global-warming-ridiculous-farce-human-history
- 1970s: the earth will turn into an iceball. 1990s-: the earth will turn into a fireball.
- 1990s: every woman should examine their breasts in the shower. 2012: leave it to doctors.
- 2008: people should use hand sanitizer and eschew hand washing. 2012: people should wash hands and eschew sanitizers.
- 1960s: babies should not be held or breastfed by their mothers, because they will fail to develop as individuals. 2012: all babies should be breast fed, the longer the better.
- 1960s: babies should sleep on their stomachs all the time to avoid SIDS. 2012: babies should never sleep on their stomachs to avoid SIDS.
- 1990s: every person over age 50 should get a colonoscopy. 2010: improper colonoscopies are causing thousands of infections and perforations.
- 1960s: everybody should have a sun lamp to receive an adequate dose of light in the winter. 2012: Sunlight should be avoided at all costs. When going to the mailbox, coat yourself in a thick layer of sunscreen.
- 1990s: All women over age 60 should receive hormone replacement therapy. 2012: Nobody should get hormone therapy.
- 1970s: the Earth will run out of food by 2000, and billions of people will starve. 2012: The obesity epidemic is unstoppable, therefore fat children should be taken away from parents.
- 1970s: acid rain will turn North America into a treeless desert, due to the relentless march of industrialization. 2012: where are the factories?
- 1980s: people should eat high-carb, low-protein diets because protein causes diseases. 2012: people should eat high-protein, low-carb diets because carbs cause diseases.
- 1970s: Free love, free sex. Family is an antiquated, useless institution. 1980s-: Family values! AIDS!
I hope to god you are kidding.
I can't think of a single human being that should even be life extended let alone immortalized, scientifically or culturally.
Human beings are disgusting, greedy, vengeful and so far as back as recorded history, between civilizations they have destroyed, completely unaware of _all_ of their history.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.