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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... regarding the news media, I nonetheless have a strong impression based on the Science Textbook Struggle that news media are far more motivated by speed of reporting and power to shape reader opinion than by accuracy or truthfulness. I ...
... Regarding the so-called scientific method, entire books have been written to attempt to define it. However, there is a “filtration” of scientific work ― consisting of several stages ― that produces the recognized scientific body of ...
... regarding risk management, and the Department of Agriculture on systems management. I have also been a member of the 5-man Washington METRO rapid transit Board of Consultants that meets frequently. Likewise, many trips to Washington ...
... regarding origins inevitably involves a “belief system” like those offered by philosophy, metaphysics, or religion. Allow me to explain by using a crude illustration. As we go backward through time, physical evidence becomes more scarce ...
... regarding the Big Bang theory occurred during the opening session of the 1975 Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society. Allen D. Allen, President of Algorithms, Incorporated, a California physics research company, presented a ...