What is Science?

What is Science?

People talk glibly about science. What is Science? People coming out of the University with a Master’s degree or a Ph.D., you take them into the field and they literally don’t believe anything unless it’s a peer-reviewed paper. That is the only thing they accept, and you say to them… Let’s observe, let’s think, let’s discuss, they don’t do it. Only when it is in a peer-reviewed paper or not. That is their view of science.

I think it’s pathetic. Gone into universities as bright young people. They come out of it brain dead! Not even knowing what science means. They think it means peer-reviewed papers etc. No! That’s academia. And if a paper is peer-reviewed it means…everybody thought the same therefore they approved it. An unintended consequence is that when new knowledge emerges, new scientific insights… can never ever be peer-reviewed. So we are blocking all new advances in Science, that are big advances. If you look at the breakthrough in Science, almost always they don’t come from the center of that profession, they come from the fringe.

The finest candlemakers in the world couldn’t even think of electric lights. They don’t come from within, they often come from outside the bricks. We’re going to kill ourselves because of stupidity.

Transcribed #Return to Eden# Marjnpoels.com