Let's Reverse All Scientific Discovery & Inventions

Has science taken a wrong turn? If so, what corrections are needed? Chronicles of scientific misbehavior. The role of heretic-pioneers and forbidden questions in the sciences. Is peer review working? The perverse "consensus of leading scientists." Good public relations versus good science.
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Let's Reverse All Scientific Discovery & Inventions

Unread post by Brigit » Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:46 pm

This subject, "Let's Reverse All Scientific Discovery and Inventions", may seem like a very great and gigantic task, but it turns out to be a simple one.

That is to say, in comparison with making the scientific discoveries, and with bringing the inventions into being, and with bringing the inventions into general use and market, the reversal of all scientific discovery and inventions does not require much intelligence or effort, and can be accomplished by one generation of people especially groomed and fitted for the task.

Or so it seems for the future of science.
“Oh for shame, how these mortals put the blame upon us gods, for they say evils come from us, when it is they rather who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given…”
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Re: Let's Reverse All Scientific Discovery & Inventions

Unread post by BeAChooser » Fri Feb 03, 2023 11:52 pm

Brigit wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 9:46 pm This subject, "Let's Reverse All Scientific Discovery and Inventions", may seem like a very great and gigantic task, but it turns out to be a simple one.

That is to say, in comparison with making the scientific discoveries, and with bringing the inventions into being, and with bringing the inventions into general use and market, the reversal of all scientific discovery and inventions does not require much intelligence or effort, and can be accomplished by one generation of people especially groomed and fitted for the task.
It can be accomplished by a single individual in a single field if the circumstances are right. Trofim Lysenko is a good example. And the result of his control was famine which arguably killed millions of people in the USSR.

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Let's Reverse All Scientific Discovery & Inventions

Unread post by Brigit » Tue Feb 07, 2023 12:15 am

Hi BaC. Yes, Lysenko.

But I was thinking of the most broad and general scientific terms imaginable. There is a joke in England:
Q: What did we have before candles?
A: Electricity.
“Oh for shame, how these mortals put the blame upon us gods, for they say evils come from us, when it is they rather who by their own recklessness win sorrow beyond what is given…”
~Homer

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