Not Even Trying
The Corruption of Real Science
Published on 15. November 2012
156 pages
978-1-78955-143-3 (ISBN)
Description
Real science is dead.
Researchers are no longer trying to seek and speak the truth. Scientists no longer believe in the truth. They no longer believe that there is an eternal unchanging reality beyond our human organisation which they have a duty to discover and disseminate. Hence, the vast structures of personnel and resources that constitute modern science are not real science but merely a professional research bureaucracy.
The consequences? Research literature must be assumed to be worthless or misleading and should almost always be ignored.
In practice, this means that nearly all science needs to be demolished (or allowed to collapse) and real science 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.
Researchers are no longer trying to seek and speak the truth. Scientists no longer believe in the truth. They no longer believe that there is an eternal unchanging reality beyond our human organisation which they have a duty to discover and disseminate. Hence, the vast structures of personnel and resources that constitute modern science are not real science but merely a professional research bureaucracy.
The consequences? Research literature must be assumed to be worthless or misleading and should almost always be ignored.
In practice, this means that nearly all science needs to be demolished (or allowed to collapse) and real science 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Legend Press Ltd
File size
0,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78955-143-3 (9781789551433)
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Biographical note
- Dedication
- Note to the reader
- The argument of this book in a single paragraph
- Introduction
- Understanding science retrospectively
- From real science to generic bureaucracy
- I wasn't actually doing science
- If not real science, what are professional 'scientists' really doing?
- The pervasive dishonesty of modern 'science'
- Communications within the science profession
- Dishonesty as pervasive, endemic
- Dishonesty with oneself
- Causes of dishonesty in science
- Roots of dishonesty in science - the role of peer review
- Modern 'science' is de facto dishonest
- Peer review is neither a necessary nor sufficient part of real science
- In real science truth must be a transcendental value
- Jacob Bronowski on the habit of truth
- A 50 year experiment in excluding transcendental truth from scientific discourse
- But is truth really true, or was it just a convenient fiction?
- Not even trying
- The peer review cartel
- Understanding reality
- Real science declined because scientific genius declined
- Human capability peaked decades ago, and has since declined
- Human capability then and now
- Measuring human capability: Moonshot versus 'Texas Sharpshooter'
- The Texas Sharpshooter society of secular modernity
- Since collapse happened to Classics, it could happen to science
- Chargaff on the loss of human pace and scale in science
- Delbruck on the moral qualities of science
- Micro-specialization and the infinite perpetuation of error
- The idea of science as a truth-machine
- Zombie science
- What is the function of Zombie science?
- The expectation of growth in scientific knowledge
- Doing real science is hard
- When the bubble bursts
- Scientific validity is about coherence not testing
- Science as a sub-species of philosophy
- No such thing as 'Science' anymore
- Doing science because science is fun?
- After science
- Real science in one sentence
- Origins of this book
- Further reading and references
- Selected sources and acknowledgments
