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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... resolution to combat a position that they were erroneously led to believe you held. 9. You would be invited to address students in universities and colleges across America on a subject you had never formally studied. 10. A proposal you ...
... resolution to block what they erroneously thought you were proposing. Would you believe that proposition? Well, I wouldn't either ― except that it actually happened to me. The story, truly stranger than fiction, of how all these events ...
... resolved in the courtroom but in the educational arena. But it did engage the attention and involvement of the biggest giants in science ― even 19 Nobel science laureates. A further similarity between these two conflagrations is that ...
... resolution. As all good people in sales know, two errors must be avoided ―overselling and underselling. Both errors have their dangers. Particularly since World War II, scientists have enjoyed a “wonder boy” complex. Anthony Standen ...