Tag: science
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Vostok, bacteria and personal agendas in Science: A sad tale...
A Russian scientist over the weekend dismissed the claims of his colleagues that water pulled from a lake buried for millions of years beneath Antarctica contained a strange new form of microbial life. But on Monday, those colleagues insisted that the bacterium they have discovered doesn't fall into any known categories. The tiny creature in…
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Lying. Happiness. Mathematics (P=NP).
Ha! Did you really think you would read something useful (and at the same time hip, with a pinch of really cool mathematics) ? 🙂 Got you! I was really tired of me writting all those mini-articles on death and living (see previous two posts), which actually repulsed everyone. They were some of my best…
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Prove science with... Faith?
How can one believe science has no limits? By the interpretation of Gödel's theorem, no section of human knowledge (e.g. arithmetic) can prove its consistency by... it self. But this implies that it may be proved by means of another section of human thought. So maybe the consistency of Science can be proved in... an un-scientific…
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Knowledge, Faith, Evidence, Truth...
What is knowledge, if not Faith in the truthness of a proposition? Based to "evidence" up to a point yes, but Faith nontheless. And what does "evidence" mean anyway? What we observe is what we observe. "Evidence" is an artificial human-made word which conveys no meaning whatsoever, besides the meaning we chose to give it. Evidence is…
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Cancer - The chance for a paradigm shift in medicine?
Four different articles. Four different stories. They all show the same thing. Our understanding of cancer has something very very wrong. The very basis of our beliefs must be misplaced. But let us take a closer look... Story 1: Stamatis was diagnosed with lung cancer in the 1960s, given nine months of life. He returned…
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