Pseudoscience, eh?
Listen, you guys are smart enough to understand it's not all a liberal conspiracy to turn all of our food into fuel. Everything I've said and much more is all out there, you just have to take the initiative to find it and explore for yourself. Oh, and turn off Fox News.
I mean nothing against you personally Chris. Science is based on observable phenomena. That being said, the politics in science does interfere with good science. Scientists with agendas are part of the problem. Good science requires an open mind, and the ability to accept data and conclusions that don't support your hypothesis. But, egos usually get in the way.
Think about this with regard to science. "Things are true until they're not"
This is a very thought provoking statement. We have universal constants in this universe. The charge on an electron, the speed of light in a vacuum, the force of gravity between two objects, pi, Boltzman's constant, etc. These constants do not change in the observable universe. So, they may be considered "truth".
In another universe, that began with another set of initial conditions, these constants may be very different, but they are not observable to us. Science is no longer science. It is political. If you want your grant money you will do "science" like the people with the money want you to.
Engineering is the same. When there is a industrial catastrophe, who does the investigation and writes the reports on the investigation? Politicians not engineers. Reports about public safety written by people who have no working knowledge of the systems they are investigating. Engineering is simply the application of scientific principles to man made structures. Engineers should not take this as an insult, it is a very necessary discipline.
This leads me to stating that people believe scientists work in the realm of truth. "Truth" is a subject for philosophy. Facts and evidence are supposed to be the bases of the science, to be used to prove theories. Just about every scientific fact has superseded a previous scientific fact. There has always been too much politics/religion/societal pressure on science and it will continue. Through out history society has always hammered the evidence to fit the accepted "scientific truth" of the time (see Galileo).
No fox news here, unless I can't get enough laughs and chuckles elsewhere.
