I am posting this ebook because it has an interesting premise, and one that I don't think that I've seen broached in any other book before. I personally am interested in reading what the author has to say.
This ebook currently is marked down 70%, to
$2.99. Unfortunately, there are no ratings/reviews at Amazon yet. It is rated 5 stars at Goodreads, but that is from only one rating with no review.
My musings . . . . Scientists are human. I have given some small amount of thought in the past to the question of whether or not, because of that fact, we should trust scientists to always, or even most always, be completely objective. How many non-scientists do you know who are that way? The fact that scientists are in a vocation which is dedicated to a pursuit of truth does not, it seems to me, guarantee their objectivity. In some fields, such as mathematics, objectivity is irrelevant because answers to questions are straightforward and irrefutable. However, in other fields, such as the natural sciences of physics, geology, chemistry, and biology, the results of observation or experimentation are subject to interpretation. Interpretation certainly can be influenced by the biases of the ones doing the interpretation. Therefore, the theories and predictions resulting from their work can be, and maybe frequently are, flawed. The premise of this book, if I understand it correctly, goes far beyond these musings, however, and argues that not only are the results of scientists' work subject to the biases of the scientists, but professional scientists no longer even
care about the truth. I am going to try to be open-minded when reading this book, but the author will have to present incontrovertible proof for me to believe such an extreme view.
Not Even Trying: The Corruption of Real Science. By Bruce Charlton. No reviews at Amazon at the present time. Digital list(?) $9.99; Kindle price now
$2.99. University of Buckingham Press, publisher. 156 pages.
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Even-Tryin...f+Real+Science.
Book Description
Briefly, the argument of this book is that real science is dead, and the main reason is that professional researchers are not even trying to seek the truth and speak the truth; and the reason for this is that professional ‘scientists’ no longer believe in the truth - no longer believe that there is an eternal unchanging reality beyond human wishes and organization which they have a duty to seek and proclaim to the best of their (naturally limited) abilities. Hence the vast structures of personnel and resources that constitute modern ‘science’ are not real science but instead merely a professional research bureaucracy, thus fake or pseudo-science; regulated by peer review (that is, committee opinion) rather than the search-for and service-to reality. Among the consequences are that modern publications in the research literature must be assumed to be worthless or misleading and should nearly always be ignored. In practice, this means that nearly all ‘science’ needs to be demolished (or allowed to collapse) and real science carefully rebuilt outside the professional research structure, from the ground up, by real scientists who regard truth-seeking as an imperative and truthfulness as an iron law.