If a simply massive scientific paradigm shift happens and not one creature in the forest, other than scientists and science journalists, gives a frack ----- did it actually really happen ?
Why is it that the Life Sciences are the only sciences throughout humanity's long long history where tens of millions have died from being from simply being on the wrong side of a scientific dispute ?
Why has the available evidence in the non Life Sciences been so consistently distorted so as to support just one position in the life science debates ?
Or is that to be the only useful thing these formal sciences ever do ?
For let us never forget that most of the useful things created under the name of chemistry and physics et al actually came from the much more low status applied practitioners of these dark arts rather than from the lab results of its most famous theorists.
I love reading about quantum mechanics - best seen acting among the tiniest sub particles of atoms - and the cosmic constant - best seen at the galaxy level.
But neither seems to have much direct bearing on improving and surviving day to day life on earth, so I tend to regard them as nothing but Space Porn - interesting stuff happening 'out there' , not down here on Earth.
Guy stuff that never changes diapers, makes supper or takes out the garbage.
Science that never lifts the toilet seat.
Science with flawless bodies, flawless skin, perky breasts and enormous penises - fantasyland stuff.
Only to the extend that they impact (as they all do, no matter how obliquely) upon the central science of Biology do they get my respectful, rather than merely lustful, attention.....
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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