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stickmakerIt is the utmost hubris to believe we know everything. Those who decry science because it "keeps changing its mind" don't understand that science is a process. Each new discovery leads to things unseen before. The development of optics led to the telescope and the microscope, both of which revealed new information about the universe. Things which are considered common knowledge by most people these days but which met which not mere resistance but attack when first announced. Yet the decriers accept this old knowledge while making the same mistakes with new knowledge.
Modern science is additive. Einstein didn't replace Newton; he explained why Newton's laws didn't quite work under some extreme circumstances. For 99% of the universe Newton still works quite well, thank you.
Oddly, many of the complaints that "if scientists knew what they were doing they wouldn't keep changing their minds" type are in response to announcements in applied medicine. While medical research is science, medical practice is still largely an art. So don't blame the scientists because their data is misapplied.
Stickmaker
Modern science is additive. Einstein didn't replace Newton; he explained why Newton's laws didn't quite work under some extreme circumstances. For 99% of the universe Newton still works quite well, thank you.
Oddly, many of the complaints that "if scientists knew what they were doing they wouldn't keep changing their minds" type are in response to announcements in applied medicine. While medical research is science, medical practice is still largely an art. So don't blame the scientists because their data is misapplied.
Stickmaker
