Most of what we know and teach is by science. Science most of the time is accurate. There have been times when science was wrong though. Cigarettes were said to help with a number of things including asthma because the understanding of them in science was wrong. (Discovery.com, Cures that didn’t work No. 8). More on that is lobotomy Cure No. 4, Walter Freeman performed hundreds of lobotomies including on the former President’s sister Rosemary Kennedy (before he was the President) (Wikipedia). This means that doctors then would tell you with the same confidence they tell you about any other risky operation that you could make a full recovery. My point is not that science is all wrong but science could be wrong and has made loads of mistakes.
Isaac Newton was not the first person to get the idea of gravity but his famous apple story is the one that sticks in the mind of a lot of people including myself. What if Isaac Newton was holding a helium balloon at the time? I mean helium goes up and apples go down. Would he have adapted his theory and said heavy objects fall and very light ones rise? What would have been the answer? The idea that science is what we use to back all of our ideas and the theories we have makes us better is not really right. Science makes mistakes and science is just simply ideas that can be recreated and recorded to have happened.
How can science prove anything it does not know? The live on the moon say. All of life is meant to have started from something very small. What if life on the moon started differently and that is why science has not found any. I am not saying there is life on the moon and I honestly hope there is not life any where in the universe. It backs up my theory of this being a simulated universe as well as Nick Bostrom’s theory. Just think science could be wrong about something. Lobotomies were done hundreds of times before they were found to not be that useful. I should note there is meant to be still a good reason for a lobotomy to be performed.
Further reading
Top 10 science mistakes
http://science.discovery.com/top-ten/2009/science-mistakes/science-mistakes.html
Top 10 cures that didn’t work
http://science.discovery.com/top-ten/2009/cures/cures.html
Interesting Wikipedia pages
Rosemary Kennedy
Walter_Freeman
Lobotomy
Isaac Newton was not the first person to get the idea of gravity but his famous apple story is the one that sticks in the mind of a lot of people including myself. What if Isaac Newton was holding a helium balloon at the time? I mean helium goes up and apples go down. Would he have adapted his theory and said heavy objects fall and very light ones rise? What would have been the answer? The idea that science is what we use to back all of our ideas and the theories we have makes us better is not really right. Science makes mistakes and science is just simply ideas that can be recreated and recorded to have happened.
How can science prove anything it does not know? The live on the moon say. All of life is meant to have started from something very small. What if life on the moon started differently and that is why science has not found any. I am not saying there is life on the moon and I honestly hope there is not life any where in the universe. It backs up my theory of this being a simulated universe as well as Nick Bostrom’s theory. Just think science could be wrong about something. Lobotomies were done hundreds of times before they were found to not be that useful. I should note there is meant to be still a good reason for a lobotomy to be performed.
Further reading
Top 10 science mistakes
http://science.discovery.com/top-ten/2009/science-mistakes/science-mistakes.html
Top 10 cures that didn’t work
http://science.discovery.com/top-ten/2009/cures/cures.html
Interesting Wikipedia pages
Rosemary Kennedy
Walter_Freeman
Lobotomy
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