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Battling bad science.
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Battling bad science.
Dogman wrote:
http://www.dietdoctor.com/battling-bad-science I have mixed feelings about the term "bad science" that are only loosely related to the content in that article. Sometimes science makes spectacular errors. Some of those errors are short lived like the philostigon theory of chemistry that lasted under a century. Some of those errors work fairly well for a long while like Euclidian astronomy that lasted millennia. Other times science progresses through stages of maturity and the early predictions aren't very good and they change rapidly. Then that science matures and its predictions become stable. On the immature side we currently has astrophysics and climatology. Both have predictions that have changed wildly decade to decade. On the mature side we currently have inorganic chemistry and evolution. We know have photograps of atoms and the starting point of genetic engineering. Parts of nutritional medicine are clearly an immature science. We had a phase of low fat pressure that lasted far past the point it should have fallen. We had a low carb fad that grew too fast and fell too soon. So there's a perspective that can be hard to assimilate - When the predictions of a science change that's a good sign because it means the science is advancing. When the predictions of a science over the last century have gotten into finer and finter details that might be a bad sign (vacuum tube design that's ripe for replacement) or a good sign (inorganic chemistry working on obscure crystal structures in attempts at high termperature superconductors). |
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Informative link
thanks for sharing |
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