Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Vast-Material4857 t1_iriuegc wrote

Reply to comment by AllanfromWales1 in “Scientific progress is thwarted by the ownership of knowledge.” How Karl Popper’s philosophy of science can overcome clinical corruption. by IAI_Admin

Schrodinger's cat was a literal attempt to mock quantum physics. Germ theory was similarly ridiculed even despite 40 years amazing data. Ignaz Semmelweis dropped his mortality rate for mother's and children during childbirth by 90% by simply washing his hands, nobody listened to him for DECADES. The list goes on and on. This why Max Planck said, "Science moves at the rate of it's obituaries."

This ideological territorialism. This is a corruption of impartiality and you can't escape it more than science can escape being done by people.

1

AllanfromWales1 t1_irj6usf wrote

I think you need to actually read both Popper and particularly Kuhn. It's not corruption that it takes a lot to overthrow an established theory, it's pragmatic and human.

1