On Oct 28, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Apostolis Xekoukoulotakis <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Since Science is by definition the creation of rigorous theories that
> better explain the world, if the flow of new theories are democratically
> distributed, then
> pseudoscience will simply vanish.
No. Science creates testable theory from observation, tests, and discards
false theory based on the testing. There is no shortage now of theory; there
is a shortage of understanding of the process, importance of falsifiability,
and understanding how to test and analyze.
The method is taught in school and yet lost by adulthood in nearly everyone.
Democratizing science to include people in the process who do not currently
understand the method does no good.
You also are conflating primary sources ( research ) and secondary sources (
analysis and criticism ) and tertiary sources ( compenda, such as encyclopedias
and Wikipedia ).
George William Herbert
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