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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Vernon L. Grose. FOREWORD. SCIENCE. BUT. NOT. SCIENTISTS. Wernher von Braun Space exploration, with which much of my life ... scientist, at a time when he can barely keep up to date in his specialty, must not isolate himself in his parochial ...
Vernon L. Grose. that the layman not attach too much importance to the scientist's opinions on issues outside their special disciplines. Scientists are not experts in everything just because they are scientists. Science But Not Scientists ...
... scientists have enjoyed a “wonder boy” complex. Anthony Standen, nearly three decades ago, said it well:2 “The world is divided into Scientists, who practice the art of infallibility, and non-scientists, sometimes contemptuously called ...
... scientist! I want to emphasize at this point that, although this account of the origin of the universe (as well as the accounts of the origins of life and man appearing later) may strike the reader as humorous, it is neither my intent ...
... scientists know what energy source produced the magic transformation of dead material into something alive! Not really. Oh, there are many who feel that it was a lightning strike. But others prefer ordinary sunshine. One thing you can ...