It still amazes me how readily most physicists seem willing to admit that they are wrong when it appears that they are, and yet biomedical people, generally-speaking, seem so unwilling to admit that they are wrong ("HIV/AIDS," "essential fatty acids," "saturated fat causes heart disease," etc.). Most people probably don't realize how much more "solid" physics is as a science compared to biology, but this makes the situation all the more laughable, and unfortunate, because the biomedical "experts" can kill people by refusing to acknowledge their mistakes. Here's a good example of the attitude a scientist should have when confronted with evidence demonstrating that he or she is wrong:
QUOTE: During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy particles may flow through the opening before it closes again, around the time you reach the end of the page.
"It's called a flux transfer event or 'FTE,'" says space physicist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "Ten years ago I was pretty sure they didn't exist, but now the evidence is incontrovertible..."
"We used to think the connection was permanent and that solar wind could trickle into the near-Earth environment anytime the wind was active," says Sibeck. "We were wrong. The connections are not steady at all. They are often brief, bursty and very dynamic." UNQUOTE.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081101093713.htm |
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