Yes Walt that's exactly what I am talking about. The
curious thing is that, since we deal with deductive
theories, it all depends on a single false premise or
invalid argument. Einstein knew that and late Bryan
Wallace expressed it very well in his famous book:
http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
"Shatter this postulate [of constancy of the speed of
light], and modern physics becomes an elaborate
farce!"
Einstein: "If the speed of light is the least bit
affected by the speed of the light source, then my
whole theory of relativity and theory of gravity is
false."
Einstein: "I consider it quite possible that physics
cannot be based on the field concept,i.e., on
continuous structures. In that case, nothing remains
of my entire castle in the air, gravitation theory
included, [and of] the rest of modern physics."
Pentcho
--- santa <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I could be wrong here but it seems to me that what
> Pentcho was writing
> about was what we call "accepted wisdom" the
> funniest example of which
> I have heard was about Lister. The accepted wisdom
> was that antiseptics
> was all a crock, and 6 years after Lister was
> successfully using his
> antiseptics President Garfield got himself shot, so
> the elite depend on
> the elite and they called the "best" doctors
> available, who were also
> firm believers of accepted wisdom. So the doctor
> searches for the
> bullet with his unwashed finger, and Garfield died
> of the resulting
> infection --- NOT from the bullet wound.
>
>
>
> The OTHER thing he may have been talking about is
> the commercialization
> of science. An example would be a manufacturer of GM
> crops going to a
> University to conduct "study" the results of which
> the manufacturer has
> already decided prior to the study.
>
>
> Both of these are worrying and dangerous and Pentcho
> is justified in
> being concerned, if that's what he was talking
> about.
>
>
> Walt
>
>
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