Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Because of the success of science,
there is a kind of uh...
I think, a kind of pseudoscience that...
social science is an example of a science which is not a science;
they don't do [things] scientifically,
they follow the forms -
or you gather data, you do so-and-so and so forth but they don't get any laws,
and they haven't found out anything...
They haven't gone anywhere yet
- maybe someday they will, but it's not very well developed; but what happens is
and on an even more mundane level, we get experts on everything
that sounds like they're sort of scientific
expert. They... they...
they're not scientific, they sit at a typewriter and they make up something
like
oh, food grown with, er...
fertilizer that's all organic is better for you than food grown with fertilizers that's inorganic
- may be true, may not be true, but it hasn't been demonstrated one way or the
other.
But they'll sit there on the typewriter and make up all this stuff
as if it's science and then become an expert on foods, organic foods
and so on.
There's all kinds of myths and pseudo- science all over the place.
Now, I might be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things, but
I don't think I'm wrong. You see, I have the advantage
of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something,
how careful you have to be about checking the experiments,
how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself.
I know what it means to know something,
and therefore I can't... I see how they get their information
and I can't believe that they know it, they haven't done the work necessary,
haven't done the checks necessary, haven't done the care necessary.
I have a great suspicion
that they don't know, that this stuff is [wrong], and they're intimidating people but
I think so. I... I don't know
the world very well but that's what I think.