Saturday, October 15, 2022

Scientific dark ages

From Borepatch 

“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong.Richard Feynman

“This is from the 1960s.  That's gone now.  Exhibit A for the Prosecution is my last post's reference to the chief of CERN - the world's most prestigious physics lab - and his command to his staff not to comment on the Svensmark experiment (because it calls into question the Scientific Orthodoxy of Global Warming).  Exhibit B is the fact that for multiple reasons the climate databases are "seriously flawed and can no longer be trusted." Exhibit C is how NASA administrators are prohibiting NASA scientists from publishing papers that run against current Global Warming orthodoxy.  There are many more examples of this in yesterday's post, and many, many more (over 500, in fact) here.

“So something happened between July 1969 and today.  Back then we were able to make atomic bombs, invent integrated circuits, and land a man on the moon.  Now it's arguments over string theory and why we can't detect more ‘Dark Matter’".

https://borepatch.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-scientific-dark-age.html

Recent reads say we do not have the workers trained in production or accustomed to labor to take back all the jobs shipped overseas since the late 20th century, nor do we have (literal) rocket scientists to send a man to the moon and safely bring him back.

In July 2008, then-NASA chief Charlie Bolden said then-President Barrack Obama charged him “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."

The White House quickly said Bolden was mistaken, but the response seemed more political than real.

Ahttps://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0714/NASA-chief-says-agency-s-goal-is-Muslim-outreach-forgets-to-mention-space

 

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