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@ Weatherall
2025-03-02 21:51:51
The argument of this book in a single paragraph:
Briefly, the argument of this book is that real science is
dead, and the main reason is that professional researchers are not even
trying to seek the truth and speak the truth; and the reason for this is
that professional ‘scientists’ no longer believe in the truth - no
longer believe that there is an eternal unchanging reality beyond human wishes
and organization which they have a duty to seek and proclaim to the best of
their (naturally limited) abilities. Hence the vast structures of personnel and
resources that constitute modern ‘science’ are not real science but instead
merely a professional research bureaucracy, thus fake or pseudo-science;
regulated by peer review (that is, committee opinion) rather than the search-for
and service-to reality. Among the consequences are that modern publications in the research literature must be assumed to be worthless or misleading
and should nearly always be ignored. In practice, this means that nearly all
‘science’ needs to be demolished (or allowed to collapse) and real science
carefully rebuilt outside the professional research structure, from the ground
up, by real scientists who regard truth-seeking as an imperative and truthfulness as an iron law.
Excerpt From
Not Even Trying: The Corruption of Real Science
Bruce Charlton
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