Science Failure

Although it can be claimed that some of the topics in the following are outside of the purview of science, science likes to poke its collective nose into everything imaginable. The media seems to delight in publishing the opinions of scientist on every subject under the sun. Our ears are assaulted with a river of scientist’s words on TV. Their opinions on all of these subjects, are of course, slanted in the direction of extreme, academic, scepticism, materialism and binary thinking. They place a particular emphasis on changing history in favour of academic science. But, many of the viewers who know nothing of science or its history seem to love them and take every word as gospel, even though much of it is the most utter twaddle.

Science Failure: Geology

Italy Orders Jail Terms for 7 Who Didn’t Warn of Deadly Earthquake
nytimes.com:
ROME – Seven prominent Italian earthquake experts (Geologists) were convicted of manslaughter on Monday and sentenced to six years in prison for failing to give adequate warning to the residents of a seismically active area in the months preceding an earthquake that killed more than 300 people.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/italy-convicts-7-for-failure-to-warn-of-quake.html

ksl.com: “Even before the verdict and sentences were announced, scientists denounced the trial as ridiculous because seismic experts have no reliable way to predict earthquakes.
“It would be a real coup if we could give warning to society and to the different emergency operators,” Koper said. “But the problem is, it’s just a complicated system and we don’t really have a good understanding of why earthquakes start and why they stop.” “http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=22676762
You heard it from the horse’s mouth folks! Geologists admit they know nothing about earthquakes.

Animal Sensors
en.wiki:
“After reviewing the scientific literature the ICEF concluded in 2011 that there is no credible scientific evidence that animals display behaviors indicative of earthquake-related environmental disturbances that are unobservable by the physical and chemical sensor systems available to earthquake scientists.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_prediction#Animal_behavior
“The physical and chemical sensor systems” are obviously not fit for purpose while animal sensors seem to do a good job. What the scientists should be looking for is an animal sensor. Dogma strikes again…there is no theory.

What amazes me about this case is not the convictions or the complete failure of the scientists, but all the support the scientists get for totally failing to save the world in what should be a traditionally Hollywood style. It’s as if we are letting the side down if we don’t support an unhealthy, ineffectual and fictitious science.
Geology is messy.
Geology, just like evolution is a series of holes glued together by what are claimed to be facts. We are expected to eat this froth and tell ourselves we had a meal.

Science has become a fantasy or even a religion for many who reject the archaic religion of their forefathers. Science is not a panacea and not a cure for religion, or even its replacement as some appear to imagine. The paradox is that science rejects religion but uses its own pseudo religious methods. Science uses dogma with exactly the same enthusiasm as does religion. It has a priesthood of senior scientists who decide what SCIENCE is, and the faithful are expected to conform or be excommunicated, to be branded pseudo scientists.

I think everyone has the right to expect science, in the guise of geology, to predict an impending earthquake. I also think that geologists have a right not to predict an earthquake, because they are prevented from doing so by science itself.

Just a few years ago, several countries drilled super-deep boreholes to test the predictions of seismology, the backbone of geology. These predictions were proven to be wrong in every single borehole. This is not being wrong in one or two experiments, but an every-time-failure that startled all those involved. It proved beyond doubt that absolutely nothing is known about the Earth more than a mile or so beneath our feet.
Geology responded by ignoring the results and sticking to tried and tested, but failed, theory. The theory was obviously wrong, but geology is successful in providing jobs for geologists. You can’t have it both ways, either you give geologists jobs or you look at the evidence… Stuff the evidence and support the science!

“One scientist commented: ‘Every time we drill a hole we find the unexpected. That’s exciting, but disturbing.’ And a science reporter remarked: ‘Kola revealed how far from truth scientific theory can roam.'”
http://davidpratt.info/inner1.htm#s2
http://www.everythingselectric.com/forum/index.php?topic=189.0

There’s something seriously wrong with geology.

Eugenics: When scientists become insane!
Michael Crichton says:
“Imagine that there is a new scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way out…
This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropists and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms…

Nobel Prize winners gave support. Research was backed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The Cold Springs Harbor Institute was built to carry out this research, but important work was also done at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California…

These efforts had the support of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, and the National Research Council.”
Read it all at:
http://www.crichton-official.com/essay-stateoffear-whypoliticizedscienceisdangerous.html

Note: Wikipedia is used frequently here, for conveinience, not because it’s any better or any worse than any other reference source.

personal.uncc.edu
“Thus, the first edition of Principles of Genetics can talk very casually about people whose stock ought to be eliminated on the basis of their contributions to society. The senior author, Edward (Edmund?) Sinnott, became a professor at Columbia, and later, dean of the Yale Graduate School. The junior author, Leslie C. Dunn, also became a professor at Columbia, and became an outspoken critic of racist biology after the Nazis came to power.
http://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/eugenics/eugenics.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Principles-Of-Genetics-Edmund-Sinnott/dp/B0019BQWQA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._C._Dunn#Awards_and_honors

And, lest anyone should complain they were not mentioned as part of this scientific fiasco:
nature.com: “Following the first leaders on eugenics in the 1920s, Nature continued to explore the merits of selective birth-control methods and the 1930s saw some of the strongest opinions ever aired in the magazine. Leader writers such as E. W. MacBride took issue with the over-reproduction by the working classes: “To-day, however stupid, they [the working class poor] survive and constitute an increasing proportion of the future nation”. Over-population made England “a steam-boiler with an increasing pressure and no safety valve” and “compulsory birth control seems to us to be the only remedy…” Nature supported Major Church’s bill, which proposed to legalize voluntary sterilization, and English statistician and geneticist R. A. Fisher’s plan to raise the fertility of the middle classes…” http://www.nature.com/nature/history/timeline_1930s.html

stanford.edu: “Francis Galton, the forefather of eugenics, originally intended to improve human condition by breeding out what he saw as undesirable traits. Eugenics became a science whereupon knowledge of human genetics was applied to social problems.”http://www.stanford.edu/class/sts129/essays/larroque2.htm

en.wiki: Sir Francis Galton, FRS (16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton

British Eugenics Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Eugenics_Society

American Eugenics Society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Eugenics_Society

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Betterment_Foundation

Eugenics is replaced by Human Culling:
Meeting Doctor Doom and more insanity
infowars.com:
Citizen Scientist | March 31, 2006 by Forrest M. Mims III.
“Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a world-renowned ecologist, (Dr. Eric R. Pianka) advocated for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible and painful manner. Apparently at the speaker’s direction, the speech was not video taped by the Academy and so Forrest’s may be the only record of what was said. Forrest’s account of what he witnessed chilled my soul. Astonishingly, Forrest reports that many of the Academy members present gave the speaker a standing ovation. To date, the Academy has not moved to sanction the speaker or distance itself from the speaker’s remarks.

If the professional community has lost its sense of moral outrage when one if their own openly calls for the slow and painful extermination of over 5 billion human beings, then it falls upon the amateur community to be the conscience of science.”
http://www.infowars.com/articles/life/population_reduction_mims_
responds_pianka.htm

What we have here is the, not unusual, breathtaking arrogance of scientists. Imposing their extreme opinions, not just upon science, but telling the rest of us who should live and who should die. It’s a strange thing, but I’ve not heard from any scientist who thinks with hindsight, that the genes of those who advocate eugenics, mass human extermination, frontal lobotomies or those scientists who research new weapons of mass destruction should also be erased from the gene pool? Not even a mention from the psychologists that these mad buggers should be confined to a rubber room! But of course, this is the ‘neutrality of science’ we are speaking about, where neutral madness abounds.
http://www.thewallanalysis.com/main/outside-the-wall.html
http://www.infowars.com/articles/life/population_reduction_top_scientist_
cull_90_percent.htm

Eugenics replaced by Human Culling
VIDEO: Posh Cambridge eugenicist says don’t mention human herd culling you might upset the children, as dumb brainwashed intellectuals applaud.

“The UK based population control advocacy group Population Matters felt compelled to respond to the latest controversy surrounding their patron David Attenborough, who recently stated humans are a “plague on the earth”.

University College’s Emeritus Professor John Guillebaud, has shown us (quite literally) another glimpse into the true nature of these neo-Malthusians when he spoke in front of a group of scientists at Cambridge University’s Triple Helix Society on October 14, 2010.

On the top of the screen of Guillebaud’s slide show we read the words: “guide to “population control” methods”, showing on the one hand a contraception pill, which is described as an artificial method of population control. On the right hand side we see depicted a machine-gun, a knife, and a hospitable-bed as examples of “natural” methods of population control.”
http://www.sovereignindependentuk.co.uk/2013/01/29/video-posh-cambridge-eugenicist-says-dont-mention-human-herd-culling-you-might-upset-the-poor-herd-dumb-brainwashed-intellectuals-applaud/

The cause of overpopulation is poverty, but scientists with good jobs for life call the effect faulty genetics. The D in Ph.D. now indicates a certain mental defectiveness, as the owner of such a credential has become unable think outside of the consensus box. (voluntary madness)

en.wiki:
Herd mentality, or mob mentality
“Herd mentality implies a fear-based reaction to peer pressure which makes individuals act in order to avoid feeling “left behind” from the group.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality

en.wiki:
Groupthink
“Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision-making outcome.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

But, of course nothing like this could ever happen in modern science – could it?

Space Exploration
Rocketry
Operation Paperclip
en.wiki:
“Beginning on 19 July 1945, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) managed the captured ARC rocketeers under a program called Operation Overcast. However, when the “Camp Overcast” name of the scientists’ quarters became locally-known, the program was renamed Operation Paperclip in March 1946. Despite these attempts at secrecy, later that year the press interviewed several of the scientists.
Regarding Operation Alsos, Allied Intelligence described nuclear physicist Werner Heisenberg, the German nuclear energy project principal, as ” . . . worth more to us than ten divisions of Germans.” In addition to rocketeers and nuclear physicists, the Allies also sought chemists, physicians, and naval weaponeers.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

Wernher von Braun
en.wiki:
Under NASA, he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. According to one NASA source, he is “without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history”. His crowning achievement was to lead the development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the Moon in July 1969. In 1975 he received the National Medal of Science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

Jack Parsons
en.wiki:
“John Whiteside Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952), better known as Jack Parsons, was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and a pioneer in solid rocket fuel research and development. He was one of the principal founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corp.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whiteside_Parsons
See also:
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/the-three-rocketeers

old.disinfo.com:
“Werner von Braun claimed it was the self-taught Parsons, not himself, who was the true father of the American space program for his contribution to the development of solid rocket fuel.”
http://old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id592/pg1/index.html

gmdstudios.com:
“Robert Goddard once said that Jack Parsons, not himself, was the real father of American rocketry.” Link

I’m not quite sure what’s going on here, but it’s saying something quite profound about the scientists of a country with more scientists than any other?

And then we find that nasa.gov says:
“Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. It is in memory of this brilliant scientist that NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., was established on May 1, 1959.”
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/about/history/dr_goddard.html

It appears the mother of invention was married three times. The contribution of Jack Parsons is down-played because he was scientifically unqualified and an occultist and that of von Braun because he was a Nazi. We are left with Goddard who was qualified and no baggage attached, as the candidate for founding father; it’s all a little too convenient for me.
Why was the science of Goddard not passed to other younger scientists, and if it was, why did the US need von Braun? Why did von Braun call Jack Parsons “the true father of the American space program”? Such questions are unlikely to be answered because academic science manipulates history to enhance the achievements of academic science.

Goddard again
en.wiki:
“In order to generate radio-frequency power, he invented a vacuum tube that operated like a cathode-ray tube. U.S. Patent 1,159,209 was issued on November 2, 1915. This was the first use of a vacuum tube to amplify a signal, preceding even Lee de Forest’s claim.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard#First_patents
While the above is true, it was never used for any other applications. The reason probably was because he and his ideas were treated as a joke:

thespacereview.com:
New York Times editorial, 1921
“The New York Times, then as now the epitome of liberal establishment thinking, wrote in a now-infamous editorial that Goddard “does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react – to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.””
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1013/1
So, according to the NYT a high school education is not advisable for aspiring rocket scientists?

We are told that Goddard was supported by the Smithsonian at this time, but I cannot find any rebuttals by the scientists of the day?
It was in fact Albert Einstein who fostered the idea that space was an empty void, a vacuum… with one or two of his own attributes. (See Physics)

New York Times 1969
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:
“…in 1920 the New York Times published an editorial mocking the aerospace pioneer Robert Goddard for suggesting that a rocket could function in the vacuum of space… The newspaper later retracted their article on 17 July 1969, following the successful launch of Apollo 11.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3187237/
The Counterintuitive
en.wiki says:
“Many scientific ideas that are generally accepted by people today were formerly considered to be contrary to intuition and common sense.
For example, most everyday experience suggests that the Earth is flat; actually, this view turns out to be a remarkably good approximation to the true state of affairs, which is that the Earth is a very big (relative to the day to day scale familiar to humans) oblate spheroid. Furthermore, prior to the Copernican revolution, heliocentrism, the belief that the Earth goes around the Sun, rather than vice versa, was considered to be contrary to common sense.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterintuitive#Counterintuition_in_science

When confronted with a need to define the counterintuitive, true examples are few and far between and even these become transparent when the clutter of intellectualisation is removed.
The fact is that few educated persons, past or present, have ever thought the Earth to be flat. It is a myth dating back to Victorian times that is seen as useful in supporting a modern scientific ideology that favours a linear increase in knowledge over time. The “Flat Earth” is a Straw Man, a diversion, but science needs such fantasies to reinforce its mystique and wonder.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Myth of the Flat Earth
en.wiki:
“During the early Middle Ages, virtually all scholars maintained the spherical viewpoint first expressed by the Ancient Greeks. By the 14th century, belief in a flat earth among the educated was nearly nonexistent…
In fact, the Kuzari, a major work of the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi which was completed around 1140, clearly refers to the Earth being spherical. Further, it also shows a clear knowlege of the spherical Earth being divided into different time zones. Fitting with present-day knowlege, the Kuzari correctly states that Sabbath in China would start earlier than in Eretz Yisrael, and in Spain later than in Eretz Yisrael, and discussing what this implies for traveling observant Jews…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth

“…According to Stephen Jay Gould, “there never was a period of ‘flat earth darkness’ among scholars (regardless of how the public at large may have conceptualized our planet both then and now). Greek knowledge of sphericity never faded, and all major medieval scholars accepted the earth’s roundness as an established fact of cosmology.” Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that “there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth’s] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference”.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_Flat_Earth

One only needs to look at the Moon or the Sun or gaze at the curvature of the earth out at sea, to make the minor intuitive leap that the Earth is a sphere; you don’t need rocket science or even a high school education.

Heliocentrism
en.wiki:
“The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos, but had received no support from most other ancient astronomers.
It was not until the 16th century that a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system was presented, by the Renaissance mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic cleric Nicolaus Copernicus of Poland, leading to the Copernican Revolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism

en.wiki:
“Archimedes wrote:…But Aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, wherein it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the ‘universe’ just mentioned. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the Floor, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same center as the Sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the Earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the center of the sphere bears to its surface.
The Sand Reckoner”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos#Heliocentrism

As we can see, the idea is not new, and a perceptible desperation is evident when support for a counterintuitive argument in favour of modern science is derived from sixteenth century science, when many of those, who may now be called scientists, were alchemists and astrologers. The science that occurred at the time would be unrecognisable and inadmissible today, not least because Copernicus was a cleric. Yet another straw man.

And yet, the idea must be reinforced to give credence to the modern “counterintuitive” theories that support modern physics, like those of Albert Einstein, that were declared only accessible to the chosen few. The problem being, that many of the chosen few (physicists), still, after a hundred years, obviously do not understand them.
The emperors new clothes are becoming somewhat threadbare.

Albert Einstein:
“”Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.” Quoted in P A Schilpp, Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist (Evanston 1949).””
Source: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Quotations/Einstein.html
Frontal lobotomies
Why would anyone do such things to fellow human beings? A clear case of scientific, control-madness!

Lobotomy en.wiki:
“Half of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 was awarded to Antonio Egas Moniz for the “discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses”. The heyday of its usage was from the early 1940s until the mid-1950s when modern neuroleptic (antipsychotic) medications were introduced. By 1951, almost 20,000 lobotomies had been performed in the United States. The decline of the procedure was gradual rather than precipitous. In Ottawa’s psychiatric hospitals, for instance, the 153 lobotomies performed in 1953 were reduced to 58 by 1961, after the arrival in Canada of the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine in 1954…
…There have been calls for the Nobel Foundation to rescind the prize it awarded to Moniz for developing the lobotomy, a decision that has been called an astounding error of judgment at the time and one that psychiatry might still need to learn from, but the Foundation declined to take action and has continued to host an article defending the results of the procedure.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
See also: “Dr Lobbotomy” http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows/dark-matters-twisted-but-true/videos/father-of-the-lobotomy.htm

If all of the undeserved Nobel prizes were rescinded, science and physics in particular, would be bereft and wearing the dark sombre clothes of mourning. I’m toying with the idea of a complete page for this subject alone. (update: there are several)

Science is an authoritarian discipline and lobotomy is an extreme form of control. Does anyone imagine that the failure of this procedure has changed science? The control that science imposes is all but universally accepted by those who feel they are made smart if they know a little science. They are to this day, lobotomised by the emperors new clothes…

Lobotomy’s Back
“In 1949 lobotomy was hailed as a medical miracle. But images of zombielike patients and surgeons with ice picks soon put an end to the practice. Now, however, the practitioners have refined their tools.”
http://discovermagazine.com/1997/oct/lobotomysback1240#.UQLRhPIpUtc
And how about this?

Time
“David Park is a physicist and philosopher at Williams College in Massachusetts with a lifelong interest in a time which he too thinks doesn’t pass. For Park, the passage of time is not so much an illusion as a myth, “because it involves no deception of the senses…. One cannot perform any experiment to tell unambiguously whether time passes or not.” This is certainly a telling argument. After all, what reality can be attached to a phenomenon that can never be demonstrated experimentally? In fact, it is not even clear how to think about demonstrating the flow of time experimentally. As the apparatus, laboratory, experimenter, technicians, humanity generally and the universe as a whole are apparently caught up in the same inescapable flow, how can any bit of the universe be “stopped in time” in order to register the flow going on in the rest of it? It is analogous to claiming that the whole universe is moving through space at the same speed – or, to make the analogy closer, that space is moving through space. How can such a claim ever be tested?”
— Paul Davies, About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution

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