Fri, 17 Apr 2009
Anti-Science
Yesteday I was called anti-science for advocating homeopathy. It's a strange term and I'm not sure what it means. I understand anti-technology, which is the belief that technology causes more problems than it solves. I suppose anti-science means advocating some idea the scientific community does not accept. It's a strange inversion of science. What is supposed to be a method for discovering new ideas becomes a tool for criticizing old ones. As if there were some laundry list of things every right minded person must believe. Science, of course, being a living thing, grows and develops and what was believed yesterday is not believed today. One wonders if villians of the past. such as Lysenko, who taught that acquired traits can be inherited, and have been proven correct, will ever be rehabilitated.
