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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Space Porn : why no one has ever died from being on the wrong side of a debate in physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, mathematics

If a simply massive scientific paradigm shift happens and not one creature in the forest, other than scientists and science journalists, gives a frack  -----  did it actually really happen ?

Why is it that the Life Sciences are the only sciences throughout humanity's long long history where tens of millions have died from being from simply being on the wrong side of a scientific dispute ?

Why has the available evidence in the non Life Sciences been so consistently distorted so as to support just one position in the life science debates ?

Or is that to be the only useful thing these formal sciences ever do ?

For let us never forget that most of the useful things created under the name of chemistry and physics et al actually came from the much more low status applied practitioners of these dark arts rather than from the lab results of its most famous theorists.

I love reading about quantum mechanics - best seen acting among the tiniest sub particles of atoms - and the cosmic constant - best seen at the galaxy level.

But neither seems to have much direct bearing on improving and surviving day to day life on earth, so I tend to regard them as nothing but Space Porn - interesting stuff happening 'out there' , not down here on Earth.

Guy stuff that never changes diapers, makes supper or takes out the garbage.

Science that never lifts the toilet seat.

Science with flawless bodies, flawless skin, perky breasts and enormous penises - fantasyland stuff.

Only to the extend that they impact (as they all do, no matter how obliquely) upon the central science of Biology do they get my respectful, rather than merely lustful, attention.....

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