Yup, I’ve been banging on this for the last 5 years.
" Scientists" are the tribe’s new witchdoctors. In crude-capitalism USA it’s all about selling products and ideas “science says…”. NO, actually science does NOT say that. There’s so much “science” and misstating of real science, that I wouldn’t even know where to start. But always start by assuming you are being fed a line of bs.
This relates to America being “post-truth”. Since much of accepted establishment science is nonsense, it opens a market for alt-science.
That is a good point. I’m not sure you can say that about religion. Is Islam more accurate ( more “truth”) than Christianity because it is the “latest” thinking? Doesn’t really work that way.
Can we all just take a second to rejoice in the fact that a dupe account set up solely to punctuate discussions with short sharp hashtags is now getting embroiled in lengthy debates?
So when I ask you to show me where I said something, you quote a post by someone else that was made after I asked you the show me where I said it? It’s a good thing you’re not a scientist.
Religion is a faith dude. So when someone make some shit up about about a faith (Jesus turned water into cider instead of wine). People are believing a lie about a faith.
If you someone said, strings theory or whatever other physics shit i don’t understand had 10 strings instead of 11 then it’s just a theory built on the 1000s of pieces of undisputed evidence out there.
The religion mumbo jumbo is shit on shit, the physics is shit on gold which can be wiped off.
I can assure you thats not the case, however it may feel like that film because our congress is selling us out to corporate interests and we have a pretty dumb president much like that film and everyone seems to take pride in how little they know but how they feel about issues
I haven’t read his last book, but both Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos are very good. Of course, Elegant Universe was written in '99 so a lot of science has changed since then. Still, just reading it for his descriptions of special vs general relativity using the Simpsons universe is worth it.
I used to think that hashtag was a dupe account of bchad’s which he used to write brief witty responses in contrast to his usual long-winded posts. I kind of still like to think that.