Monday, July 03, 2006
Junk Science... Yes, I'm still on about it
Junk Science: opinions, theories, or just plain lies which are promulgated or taught as scientific fact.
If something is truly a scientific fact, the experiments which proved it can be duplicated by anyone who is interested in doing so. If no initial experiments were made, the so called "scientific fact" is fiction. If experiments were made but cannot be duplicated the "fact" is no more than a theory, and an unproven one, at that.
There is some "fiction" and "unproven theories" which are being stated as scientific fact. This is Junk Science.
Two of the most glaring examples of Junk Science are:
1. The apparent increase in the temperature of the Earth is due to human use of things which create carbon dioxide. The fact that humans are only responsible for a miniscule percentage of the total carbon dioxide procuced by the Earth must be studiously ignored.
2. All members of the plant and animal kingdoms evolved from a one-celled critter swimming in the primordial soup. The fact that all of the animals presently occupying the planet appeared in the Cambrian Age, while there is no evidence that any of them existed in the Pre-Cambrian Age must not only be ignored, but must not be talked about ever.
It is extremely important to certain special interest groups that this Junk Science be promulgated in our public schools. This is probably one of the reasons that our 4th graders take one of the first 3 places in world wide tests while our high school seniors come in 29th world wide. Our "educational system" has done its work.
I was told once that the job of our public school system was to create "good little tax payers". If we aren't careful our graduates won't even be able to get jobs, let alone pay taxes.
Recommended reading: "Godless" by Ann Coulter.
The case couldn't be made any stronger.
If something is truly a scientific fact, the experiments which proved it can be duplicated by anyone who is interested in doing so. If no initial experiments were made, the so called "scientific fact" is fiction. If experiments were made but cannot be duplicated the "fact" is no more than a theory, and an unproven one, at that.
There is some "fiction" and "unproven theories" which are being stated as scientific fact. This is Junk Science.
Two of the most glaring examples of Junk Science are:
1. The apparent increase in the temperature of the Earth is due to human use of things which create carbon dioxide. The fact that humans are only responsible for a miniscule percentage of the total carbon dioxide procuced by the Earth must be studiously ignored.
2. All members of the plant and animal kingdoms evolved from a one-celled critter swimming in the primordial soup. The fact that all of the animals presently occupying the planet appeared in the Cambrian Age, while there is no evidence that any of them existed in the Pre-Cambrian Age must not only be ignored, but must not be talked about ever.
It is extremely important to certain special interest groups that this Junk Science be promulgated in our public schools. This is probably one of the reasons that our 4th graders take one of the first 3 places in world wide tests while our high school seniors come in 29th world wide. Our "educational system" has done its work.
I was told once that the job of our public school system was to create "good little tax payers". If we aren't careful our graduates won't even be able to get jobs, let alone pay taxes.
Recommended reading: "Godless" by Ann Coulter.
The case couldn't be made any stronger.
