Re: The Rise and Fall of a Scientific Genius
Posted: 20 Nov 2009, 23:27
What I see as a problem is that the world is full of the unexplained and interesting phenomena. This is not oneof them. Scientists would be out of a job if there wasn't something interesting to determine.
The fact that devices like this did not work is the reason that more research has been done in other areas. Notice that the work was tried again. People are often unaware that science is a slow and ponderous process of trying and trying. Facts are simply what we believe to be true.
AIS did you know that 3 times work that has received the Nobel prize in a science field has been shown to be wrong? It simply shows that the questions being asked are hard. The questions have to be asked repeatedly and new information may show that established ideas, i.e. facts, may not be true after all.
A cancer cure in vogue years ago was laetrile. I remember Bullitt, aka Steve McQueen, heading to a clinic in Mexico for laetrile treatments. A small pharmaceutical geared up to make laetrile. Then the stunning claims fell apart and laetrile was not used because it didn't work. It's too bad. It would be a better world if cancer did not kill as many people as it does, but for now there is no simple panacea for the scourge of cancer.
The fact that devices like this did not work is the reason that more research has been done in other areas. Notice that the work was tried again. People are often unaware that science is a slow and ponderous process of trying and trying. Facts are simply what we believe to be true.
AIS did you know that 3 times work that has received the Nobel prize in a science field has been shown to be wrong? It simply shows that the questions being asked are hard. The questions have to be asked repeatedly and new information may show that established ideas, i.e. facts, may not be true after all.
A cancer cure in vogue years ago was laetrile. I remember Bullitt, aka Steve McQueen, heading to a clinic in Mexico for laetrile treatments. A small pharmaceutical geared up to make laetrile. Then the stunning claims fell apart and laetrile was not used because it didn't work. It's too bad. It would be a better world if cancer did not kill as many people as it does, but for now there is no simple panacea for the scourge of cancer.