Saturday, December 21, 2013

Our Facts are Losing Their Truth



Why would I trust science? Why would I put my faith in people who believe “the building blocks of life” magically sprang up from nowhere and accidentally created everything? The same people who once told us Earth was the center of the universe, the liver was responsible for circulating blood, and heavier objects fall faster than smaller objects.

Scientists pretend to search for the truth, when in reality it’s all about proving themselves right. If they were really searching for the truth, they would have realized DNA was important back in the 1800’s when it was discovered by mistake. Many important discoveries have been mistakes. Hopefully they will stumble across a cure for cancer soon. 

Oops, there is no such thing as reptiles and Pluto isn’t a planet anymore. Katharine Sanderson, of New Scientist magazine states, Chemistry is a much fuzzier business than we thought. There is a reason why ice floats on water, and it is called the hydrogen bond. Whatever that is.” (http://www.newscientist.com/special/rewriting-the-textbooks). Whatever that is? Seriously?

In the 1950’s biologists agreed that genes were made up of a DNA sequence that gave instructions for making a protein: molecules that make up all living things. Now, “Such harmony has vanished” Says Michael Le Page, and “What defines life's building blocks? It depends who you ask. A single "gene" can consist of dozens of distinct DNA segments that can be combined to make thousands of different proteins.”  

New Yorker report:
The test of replicability, as it’s known, is the foundation of modern research. It’s a safeguard for the creep of subjectivity. But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It’s as if our facts are losing their truth. This phenomenon doesn’t yet have an official name, but it’s occurring across a wide range of fields, from psychology to ecology. (http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/is-the-scientific-method-seriously-flawed/)

Our facts are losing their truth? If something is less true today than it was yesterday it was not true to begin with. Science is not truth. Science is a guess and nothing more.  



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