How Science Lost Its Way and Created an Army of Doubters - Medium

"What would happen if the integrity of the peer-review process comes into question?" is the core of this thought-provoking and somewhat worrying piece by Jonathan Clark. He sticks his fork in the climate-change toaster, arguing that on this and other hot topics, politically "the hyperbole has reached a ludicrous level." Governments spew out stats to the populace, but are they true? "Who's Checking The Facts" upon which so much depends. Could it really be that an increase in Co2 would be good for the planet? And perhaps Richard Feynman Was Wrong About Beauty and Truth in Science. Physicist Feynman has received honors properly due to him for his important work and is associated with the belief that truth can be recognized by its "beauty and simplicity"; but Massimo Pigliucci reckons it can't. The "philosophy of science" wasn't Feynman's best subject and some argue that "complex and ugly" theories sometimes prove to be true. And staying on the iconoclastic track, Shamans of Scientism: Conjuring Certainty Where There Is None reminds us that "radical challenges to mainstream views ... are dismissed as pseudoscience" and that "science is fallible." Public policy, so often founded on apparent scientific certainties, is being ill-served by the science establishment's use of weasel-words to make us think it has all the answers. As we Anomalists know, it hasn't. (LP)

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