Science but Not ScientistsThe historic Science Textbook Struggle -- a worldwide battle about the origin of the universe, life, and man -- erupted without warning. It caught the scientific illuminati completely by surprise. Why? Because science textbooks had become filled with wild, unbelievable stories about the beginning of everything. And those tales were simply not scientific! The universe starting with a Big Bang, life arising out of a soup of lifeless amino-acids, humans produced by apes . . . those myths had only replaced ancient Greek mythology and were being passed off as scientific truths! Wernher von Braun, father of Americas space program, writes in the Foreword: Vernon Grose, in tracing out in Science But Not Scientists his personal involvement in the vortex of these two forces, illustrates one more time the humanity of scientists their likelihood of being just as prejudiced and bigoted as anyone untrained in science. He properly calls for objectivity rather than scientific consensus. He rightly urges that message rather than messenger should be scrutinized and tested for validity. Science will be the richer and humanity the ultimate beneficiary by heeding this clarion call. |
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... physical artifacts of certainty that can be examined, requires sophisticated guessing which scientists prefer to refer to as “inference.” Since hypotheses, a product of scientific inference, are virtually the stuff that comprises the ...
... physical sciences have been either mimicked or emulated by the so-called social sciences. I would be disappointed if this book were to be viewed as contributing to the anti-science movement that now is fashionable. Neither is it ...
... physical resources. On the plus side however, the experiences in this struggle have been most rewarding. Entering the fray rather naively as simply a concerned parent and taxpayer, my vast ignorance of so many aspects xxiv.
... physical evidence becomes more scarce. All antique dealers know that the price of antiques goes up with their age, every other factor being constant. Why? Because they are more scarce. Now, if we want to speculate about life at the time ...
... physical system like an automobile. A chemist might interpret the same 21 data points as a chemical system comparable to a baked cake, and a biologist might view the 21 identical observations as a biological system such as a horse. It ...