Comments on: What is science?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:18:15 +0000

TimY your comments about science being like religion is right on the mark. Both require blind faith and both try to control peoples lives and actions.

They both have bosses, one is suppose to be God and the other acts like God and is called Big Business. If we believe in either one, we lose.

By: TimY

TimY — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:48 +0000

It seems programmed into our psyche to seek out and explain the unknown and even the unknowable. There is a sense of peace when we believe, even incorrectly, that we understand something others do not comprehend. This is one of the lures of certain cults of exclusivity whether religious or scientific in nature. Yes, science has its zealots too!! We must be honest that tunnel vision is not only in the religious communities but also in our labs and phylosophies. There are many similarities between science and religion in that it requires faith in the answers to the questions being asked regardless of the answers coming from a divine inspiration or the mind of an Einstein. Often the faith is squandered on misconceptions. The questions are fairly constant throughout the ages but become more complex with more knowledge of what we DON’T know. It takes a lifetime to realize how little we truly comprehend and by the end of our lives we find that if we live long enough, that which was believed irrefutable when we started was incorrect in its entirety. Certainly amusing and even laughable if you refrain from taking it all too seriously. For myself I choose to shine my small flashlight into every dark nook of first my own mind and then my universe from sheer wonder at this messy place we occupy for such a short time. Enjoy the ride, the debates, the angst from finding out we were wrong and the joy of being intelligent enough to admit the wrong and get it a little “righter”. Alas, we have so few words other than right or wrong to describe new concepts. Perhaps “interesting”, “possible”, “most likely”.
“Most likely” some reading this will agree and applaud my correct thinking, others will say it’s the muttering of a fool. Perhaps both arguments have merit! Never quit seeking, the best is yet to be discovered!!

By: Peterb

Peterb — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:07:31 +0000

Poor old Science… So much criticism and negative comment. Where would we be without it.
Almost like, or maybe just similar to, politics. Where the major part of any political comment is about what happened, what the opposition has done, or restating the problem rather than words towards a solution. Science as I see it is not only seeking answers, which can be convenient if not true, but seeking an explanation and a basis for further advancement in that field. Let’s keep it simple. I mean the question of what is Science, (Dad).? It’s first defining the subject, be it a problem or a potential advance in the subject area. Progress based on facts known or discovered along the way rather than moral but baseless beliefs.
The terms, subverting and undermining and the like, could maybe be better replaced by, revisiting and redefining, the subject or data. Which is so often undertaken by the original scientist involved. Finally I like the quote of Elizabeth H. Blackburn who is talking change, progress and new ways.

By: jamie hamilton

jamie hamilton — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:54:08 +0000

Although taken out of context I’m sure, this is just whining and complaining without providing a viable alternative.

By: Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:02:00 +0000

Having read and experienced certain things in the area that’s becoming known as “the new biology” and “noetic science” in the last few years, I can see how new knowledge indeed changes one’s view of reality. New possibilities have opened up then become acceptable to me which would not have been considered seriously before. Activities such as remote or distant healing are part of my everyday reality now, but I did need the evidence from scientists in the field just to reassure my rational mind. I’m very grateful to people such as Bruce Lipton and Gary Schwartz – and many others – in this regard.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:08:29 +0000

Science is not interested in making the unknown… known. Instead it is forced to concoct and feed only enough to help sustain the belief that; they use science and medicine for our best interest. I truly wish that was the case, but nothing could be farther from the truth.

The phony H1N1 flu pandemic is a recent example. Those of you that just went through your Southern Hemisphere winter flu-season know there was no pandemic. It was all lies supported by faulty science that was bought and paid for. In the Northern Hemisphere, there are national security laws being enforced putting gag orders on natural immune support supplements and now a new bill S773 will give the US president power over the internet. Berlin Wall, Great Wall of China, and now the American Wall and for what purpose? To keep truth from getting in or out!

Unfortunately, most of the information we get is supplied and controlled without any humane relevance. This tainted science comes to us through the media, world governments and their agencies, institutions for study, education, and research, and directly from the companies they ultimately represent. Scientific disciplines are mostly undermined directly and indirectly by their employers and now we all must conform to new laws that are designed to make us pay for their machinations of a new world order for profits.

This is eactly what SOT should be actively thinking about, but guess what, I don’t think so?

“Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man’s papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.” Jonas Salk