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332. Law, the anti-science

By Joel Jacobsen

The scientist and science writer Bob Park recently published a column in the New Scientist containing this passage:Richard Feynman described science as "what we have learned about how not to fool ourselves". Science depends on openness: we expose our scientific findings, including the details of how they were obtained, to the scrutiny of the scientific community. This sounds like a prescription for chaos, but the result is the opposite because it reinforces the idea that science is conditional - always subject to being replaced by better information. This can be frustrating to non-scientists, who ask why science can't make up its mind, but the alternative is dogma. Openness provides a mechanism for self-correction, setting science apart from other ways of knowing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on December 15, 2007 (boomark / email).