Soldado De Aztlan Posted July 23, 2017 Posted July 23, 2017 I've done a great deal of studying, and have found many troubling things in modern society. Not going into details quite yet, but finding many troubling practices I learned this quote. The philosophy of nefarious people need be learned as well. "Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy....It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise as their schoolmasters would have wished...Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become pathologically impossible..." -Bertrand Russell, 1953
Jsbrads Posted July 27, 2017 Posted July 27, 2017 The modern vogue seems mainly to discard dependable structures for untested theories. loose paraphrasing of Sowell cant wait for it to stop
shirgall Posted July 27, 2017 Posted July 27, 2017 7 hours ago, Jsbrads said: The modern vogue seems mainly to discard dependable structures for untested theories. loose paraphrasing of Sowell cant wait for it to stop I think the term you are looking for is "rigor". Popular science doesn't seem to have it, the masses have no patience for it, and journalists don't seem to understand it.
Soldado De Aztlan Posted July 27, 2017 Author Posted July 27, 2017 An untested theory is actually a hypothesis. There is a distinct difference between the two, and for good reason. Degraded English is an other problem in society. It's hard for me to imagine that so much of the scientific endeavors is due to incompetence. It definitely seems like there's an agenda at play. Especially in light of the evidence. Personally, the calmness of western societies could really be sedation. Just my two cents.
Soldado De Aztlan Posted August 2, 2017 Author Posted August 2, 2017 In order for a hypothesis to become a theory? It must have a thesis and a set of procedures to elicit certain results. It then gets submitted to peer review where they validate the findings. Evolutionary theory has both a macro and micro parts to it. Micro evolution is easily verifiable. Like beaks on birds getting longer, disease resistance, or changes in bone density. The part that people always rally against is the macro evolution. Where a monkey becomes a man. Evolutionary theory hasn't been around very long. So the collected evidence based on fossil records is incomplete at best. Especially with the degradation of DNA samples over time.
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