Pow! Zap! (Big) Bang?! (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, October 07, 2010, 15:07 (5161 days ago) @ dhw


> The article is rather long, and I had to skim quite a lot of the detail, but it needs to be read. Just how much science can we take on trust? As Stephen Hawking has shown, you can chuck in any old theory you like (apart from God, of course), so long as you've got the right connections in the science world. If you haven't, no-one will listen. As a non-scientist I find it confusing and depressing, but at the same time there is a kind of perverse pleasure to be derived from the fact that materialism continues to chase its own tail.-The article fits the ring-around-the-rosey setup of today's peer review tied into governmednt grants. Scientists work with other peoples' money. not like Darwin. Their depencency creates this mess. There should be a solution, but with tight peer review no way. I lived in a day when I could submit an article (and I did) and the journal was free to accept it or not on its merits, as they saw it.