Tag: science the new religion
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Science the New Religion: The NSF example
Congress wants to pass a new bill that will better regulate NSF grants. Scientists do not. They think that other scientists should “freely” decide which research projects are funded based on the “I know because I am an expert” logic. In the context of the complaints, many related articles have been posted on the Internet.…
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Eye, complex to simple, fallen angels...
Evolution-explains-everything-and-answers-to-all-philosophical-problems skeptics argue that some biological structures, like the brain or the eye, are simply too complex for natural selection to explain. Biologists have proposed various ways that so-called 'irreducibly complex' structures could emerge incrementally over time, bit by bit. But a new study proposes an alternative route. Instead of starting from simpler precursors and…
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Detecting nuclear explosions, "detecting" nuclear explosions...
The new are full of headlines on how CTBTO managed to detect the nuclear blast of the North Korea recent test. Through sensors - both seismic and even radioactivity sensors (really?) - the agency is said to be able to determine even the type of the device tested. (1, 2, 3) This is what technology…
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300, 400, 500 light years? Who cares?!? If you are an astronomer everything goes… (or why Astronomy = Astrology)
New measurements of the Polar Star have revealed that the distance of the star from Earth is 323 light years, instead of 434 light years which was the last measurement known. [1] Astronomy is the only science where measurements can change so drastically without anyone saying anything. What would your professor tell you if you…
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Higgs research is published and reveals more dogmatism than one would expect…
The paper related to the “discovery” of the Higgs boson was finally published and is freely available here. The paper gives us insight into how scientists today think. The title is: “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC”. We are initially baffled by the question:…
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