POSTSCIENTISM AND DYING SCIENCE EDUCATION

Pentcho Valev

27th May 2006 - 06:05 AM

http://www.physorg.com/news67859236.html

"The paper concludes: "Although our current analysis does not provide proof of an uninterrupted causal chain of influence, we should pay close attention to children"s early exposure to science at the middle and even younger grades."

There can be nothing more harmful than that. Children (and not only children) should not be exposed to idiocies such as "I measure your clock to be slower than mine and you measure mine to be slower than yours" or "Salt dissolves in water because the entropy increases". The combination of obscurity and absurdity destroys irreversibly children"s rationality. Mankind should better wait until the present era of Postscientism (described in http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/ and http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm ) is over. For the moment science (education) is just dying:

http://forum.physorg.com/index.php?showtopic=5757

Pentcho Valev

Pentcho Valev

1st June 2006 - 06:40 AM

QUOTE (Pentcho Valev+May 27 2006, 06:05 AM)

http://www.nyas.org/snc/updatePrint.asp?updateID=41 :

"I believe we should not modify the basic methodological principles of science to save a particular theory."

The process of "saving a particular theory" started in 1850 and reached perfection in Einstein's works:

http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev4.htm
http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev5.htm

Pentcho Valev

Pentcho Valev

2nd June 2006 - 07:16 AM

QUOTE (Pentcho Valev+Jun 1 2006, 06:40 AM)

QUOTE (Pentcho Valev+May 27 2006, 06:05 AM)

After 100 years of intensively destroying rationality in science and replacing logic with Einstein's (and other jugglers') divine insights the journal NATURE is solemnly declaring that physics is in crisis:

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051128/full/nj7068-705a.html :

"Physics is failing to attract fresh blood in England and Wales. A survey published last month by the University of Buckingham reveals that the number of pupils taking A-level physics has fallen by 38% since 1990. And in the same period, the proportion of new physics teachers dropped from one-third of all science teachers to just 13%.
The results ring alarm bells as far as the supply pipeline for physicists is concerned. Where will the next generation of physics researchers in England and Wales come from?
The United States has faced a similar issue...."

Yes, people don't find "I measure your clock to be slower than mine and you measure mine to be slower than yours" and "Salt dissolves in water because the entropy increases" curious anymore. They read Harry Potter instead.

Pentcho Valev

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