Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Science Isn't Dogma, You're Just Stupid (Response to Formscapes)" video.

  1.  @juronpilo6109  He is not your "opponent". He is an adult who tells you the truth about yourself. If you don't like what you see, well, man, then it's time to tell the man in the mirror to change and grow up. ;-)
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  2.  @juronpilo6109  Then you are approx. 35 years late with the growing up thing. Don't wait too long. Life is finite. ;-)
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  3. Education is accessible. When was the last time you went to the library and looked at a book on molecular spectroscopy? Never, right? The problem is not that education isn't accessible. The problem is that educating yourself is extremely hard work. Very few people are willing to put that much work in.
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  4. One has to be an adult to practice the methodology that you just outlined because it starts with the question "What could I have done wrong?". Only a person who can constantly admit that they might be wrong can hope to achieve success in science. "Skeptics" simply don't have the required maturity. They can never be wrong in their own minds and so they can never self-correct.
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  5.  @theteacher2000  No offense, but if you have trouble with "proving" your own existence, then your major problem isn't science. It's mental health. You have not managed to develop a normal human psyche, yet.
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  6. All you will see in a lab is a complicated machine that you won't understand. That doesn't create an understanding of science, either. Our schools are set up to get children to think logically, but the problem is that many children simply can't do that. They are, most likely genetically, predominantly right-brained individuals. In such people emotions can easily override logical thinking. These children are not doing well in school when it comes to science and mathematics, which creates an educational trauma. In adults that trauma manifests in different ways, from indifference towards science all the way to denialism.
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  7.  @lurkmoar9066  I am afraid of people who can't think straight. They are dangerous. ;-)
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  8. Yeah, but Elon Musk is special. He made billionaire. No real scientist has ever achieved that. They do, on average, get into lower middle class.
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  9. Psychology is not natural science to begin with. It's a specialty of medicine, which is not so much about understanding as it is about healing the human body (and in case of psychology about healing the mind). "Theories" are completely irrelevant in that context. The only relevance is success in helping people.
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  10. If you think that string theory is physics, then it only shows that you don't know anything about physics. Physics is what they do at CERN and other laboratories. Did you ever take the time to visit one of those? I can guarantee that you won't see any strings there when you do.
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  11. Yogis are conmen who practice contortionism. ;-)
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  12.  @RevivalOfBuzzBuzz  What have you been drinking? ;-)
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  13. Schroedinger's cat is not proper physics. It is, however, proof that Schroedinger didn't understand quantum mechanics, despite his major contributions to it.
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  14.  @FizzleFX  Not sure about that, either. Schroedinger had a very weird style. Of the five papers that lead up to the Schroedinger equation only the SE paper is even borderline intelligible for my taste. It is clear what he was trying to achieve with Schroedinger's cat, of course, but he picked a really poor example and he failed to analyze it properly. It's a little bit like Einstein and EPR and the later Heisenberg. They all came so close to understanding quantum mechanics properly and then something in their minds reverted back to semi-classical thinking. Very strange, indeed. Hindsight is 20-20, of course. For us it's much easier to stand on the shoulders of these giants than it was for them to give us this view.
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  15. I have good news for you: you didn't inherit your Dad's mental disease. You will be fine.
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  16. We all did. Titration is the seventh wonder of science. It's so simple that it can't fail, yet it always does. ;-)
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  17. Not really.
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  18.  @Puukko79  Have you ever been to a psychologist? They will try to make you feel better, not tell you theories of how your brain works. :-)
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  19.  @Puukko79  What about "psychology is not science" did you not understand just now? Are you suffering from reading recognition problems? ;-)
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  20.  @Puukko79  And now you are feeling sorry for yourself. A Jungian would tell you now that you need to grow up. I am not a Jungian. I am a Freudian. I will let you blame your Mom for not giving you enough attention. ;-)
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  21. Elon Musk is a prime example of an emotionally incomplete individual. He is probably on the extremely functional end of the Asperger's spectrum.
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  22.  @HAARGLaga  Elon Musk is undoubtedly intelligent, but he is clearly not mentally stable. One thing has nothing to do with the other, unfortunately.
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  23. Cool story, bro. ;-)
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  24. In the past every physics lab used to have regular "visitors" who were trying to convince professors and students that Einstein was wrong. Today these folks have moved to the internet.
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  25.  @PabloRocha-yv2vz  String theory is not even theoretical high energy physics. It can not make any predictions about the spectrum of the vacuum. Theoretical physics is the mathematical description of measured physical phenomena. String theory makes currently no contact with any measured phenomenon.
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  26.  @PabloRocha-yv2vz  A hypothesis has to be testable. String theory is not testable right now, hence it doesn't even rise to the level of a hypothesis. Physicists call these things "not even wrong".
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  27.  @PabloRocha-yv2vz  No, it's not. ;-)
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  28. What does that have to do with the Higgs mass? ;-)
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  29.  @micnorton9487  Why would humans ever live in space? That makes no sense whatsoever. Transhumans will be living in space. Transhumans adapted to space won't need air, water, food and gravity, which gets us rid of all the pesky metal cans that we have to lug around in space just to stay alive.
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  30. Kuhn is an idiot. There are no such things as paradigm shifts in science. What actually happens is that humans become mentally less flexible with age. Beyond a certain age most people simply can't change their habits and mental models (for non-scientists: belief systems). That's why there seem to be these rapid step-wise changes in science. What you are really observing there are old professors retiring. That's all.
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