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Pretty much, yeah.
If it helps me to organise my thinking, by describing how it works, its already of practical value.You won't say that after I finish my QCD-Dark Energy Interaction warp drive.
Uh .. i don't understand .. whatever do you mean by a black hole?Probably not, since it's going to suck us all into a black hole.
It's like a wormhole, but without another end to come out of.Uh .. i don't understand .. whatever do you mean by a black hole?
Ahh .. of course! Thank you .. Very useful .. I can put that idea into practice in solving some of my other problems.It's like a wormhole, but without another end to come out of.
Can you point out exactly where I have made it clear as my position that scientific facts are subjective.Your posts have made it perfectly clear you think scientific facts are subjective and can vary from person to person.
Postmodernism is an intellectual position.What game are you playing?
Are you seriously suggesting there is an intellectual content to anti-intellectualism such as post modernism or is this simply a smokescreen for your own anti-science based agenda?
That doesn't make sense. Why would I as a Christian hide behind an ideology that denies the objective truth about God and morality and support the idea that there is no fixed nature when it comes to Gods creation including the laws of nature, the binary nature of male and female and Gods truth of the marriage union and family which postmodernist dispute. I would be shooting my own beliefs down in support of ideas that reject these truths of God.It's no coincidence the links you throw up probably reflect your own views on science as well as a post modernistic reaction against science.
The facts are individuals like yourself and anti-intellectuals engage in confirmation bias where the internet provides a ready made source to support any anti-science idea.
I am using the end results of how this postmodernist politically correct and woke ideology has dumbed down education. For exampleYou don’t seem to understand it is what comes out of the other end of the tertiary education system which counts.
What makes you think lowering the entrance requirements for students will automatically result in a production line of dumbed down postgraduate qualified scientists?
In Australia to qualify to do a PhD requires a first class or second class 2A honours degree irrespective of the number of undergraduates who go on to an honours degree.
Junk science is junk science. Its not necessarily fraudulent. It can also be poor science such as pseudo science when it comes to scientific rigor. Nevertheless much of why peer review articles are rejected is through misrepresentation. For example many papers have been found to contain deliberate misleading or misrepresented information. There have been the well documented examples of researchers purposely presenting false and pseudo science which was then published as valid.You made the claim there is a high percentage of junk science in peer review.
By definition junk science is fraudulent and none of your links indicates fraud is rife in science.
Here is an example from your latest post.Can you point out exactly where I have made it clear as my position that scientific facts are subjective.
What I find confusing about your posts is the ambiguity of what you are trying to criticize; is it about post-modernism or science?Postmodernism is an intellectual position.
Postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse[1][2]
I have made it clear I am not anti science. A simple search on CF will show this is the case. I am merely pointing out how postmodernist view science. Part of the problem I think is that there are many so called scientific facts claimed that have no clear basis so are open to interpretation especially in social sciences.
Another problem I think is that people still dispute science facts despite them being verified independently because they are skeptical of science. Like climate change deniers. Fake facts flood the market and muddy the waters and many can be influenced into believing 'maybe science facts are not facts'.
That doesn't make sense. Why would I as a Christian hide behind an ideology that denies the objective truth about God and morality and support the idea that there is no fixed nature when it comes to Gods creation including the laws of nature, the binary nature of male and female and Gods truth of the marriage union and family which postmodernist dispute. I would be shooting my own beliefs down in support of ideas that reject these truths of God.
Not only did you ignore my question of how the lowering of the entrance requirements for students will automatically produce dumbed down postgraduates with seven unrelated links which puts it in the territory of a Gish Gallop, but also equating the drop in education standards with PC and wokeness is flat out wrong.I am using the end results of how this postmodernist politically correct and woke ideology has dumbed down education. For example
studies have shown that literacy levels and general skills have decreased compared to past generations.
Cancel Culture has captured campus
One half of all students who enroll in America’s colleges never graduate.
With the campaign for “diversity above all things,” there is a deliberate abandonment of a core of common knowledge for students.
In summary, PC has shifted the focus of higher education from the search for truth to mere indoctrination and political transformation.
The Corruption of Education: Failing Colleges, Political Correctness and Federal Funding - Imprimis
It is not the lack of money spent on education—we spend billions. It is not some sweeping social injustice.imprimis.hillsdale.edu
Why Australia’s students keep falling behind
Australia’s schoolchildren are sliding down international tests that measure their academic performance
Why Australia’s students keep falling behind
Education policies need to be judged by students’ results rather than good intentions and political expediency.www.afr.com
Falling College Academic Standards: New Evidence
American students enter college less prepared than counterparts in other countries or, in some respects, Americans of two generations ago. From 1972 to 2016, the average verbal score on the SAT test fell about 35 points, and on the PISA international assessment in science and math (given to 15 year old secondary students), U.S. student performance is abysmal, well below Asian standards (China, Japan, Korea) and even relatively poorer European nations like Poland.
Falling College Academic Standards: New Evidence
A new National Bureau of Economic Research study shows higher college completion rates are largely the result of grade inflation.www.forbes.com
The National Association of Scholars believes that cancel culture within higher education has reached an extraordinary level. Indeed, many colleges and universities have become progressive seminaries. The threat to academic freedom is obvious: when those within academia are unable to contradict progressive orthodoxy, the disinterested pursuit of truth is lost. Reasoned scholarship is traded in for the cheap, vapid substitute of political activism. And in the long run, higher education itself dies.
Tracking Cancel Culture in Higher Education by David Acevedo | NAS
Education in high school and university becomes an indoctrination into political perspectives that act as universal solvents, destroying all inherited wisdom. Politics replaces meaningful scholarship and historical knowledge.
A desire to be educated in a Western context is a desire to have a working knowledge of Hesiod and Homer, Thucydides and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, the Bible, the Church Fathers and every other canonical writer and thinker until now. When this desire is lost and what is offered instead is the culture of repudiation, then universities lose their raison d’être.
Political Correctness and the Death of Education – Requiem for a Dream - VoegelinView
In The One By Whom Scandal Comes (2014) René Girard writes: “Every culture takes a dim view of anyone who does not unconditionally prefer the native to the foreign, the inside to the outside […] The preference that cultures grant to themselves […] must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference...voegelinview.com
Instead of an academically rigorous curriculum subjects have been dumbed down and taught through a politically correct prism
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:"library/lcatalog/01242634"
I asked you to show me evidence of junk science getting through peer review in reputable journals such as Nature and Science.Junk science is junk science. Its not necessarily fraudulent. It can also be poor science such as pseudo science when it comes to scientific rigor. Nevertheless much of why peer review articles are rejected is through misrepresentation. For example many papers have been found to contain deliberate misleading or misrepresented information. There have been the well documented examples of researchers purposely presenting false and pseudo science which was then published as valid.
Nevertheless my point was there was a high % of peer review that is not science regardless of why.
Inappropriate authorship and other fraudulent publication strategies are pervasive.
Fake Peer Review and Inappropriate Authorship Are Real Evils - PMC
Inappropriate authorship and other fraudulent publication strategies are pervasive. Here, I deal with contribution disclosures, authorship disputes versus plagiarism among collaborators, kin co-authorship, gender bias, authorship trade, and fake ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Nearly a decade ago, headlines highlighted a disturbing trend in science: The number of articles retracted by journals had increased 10-fold during the previous 10 years. Fraud accounted for some 60% of those retractions.
And they pick and choose between scientists, as well. Dr's were censored over covid by big tech (the government pushed that behind the scenes) using other outlets to do what they themselves could not do.Scientists are 100% guilty of ridiculing people who question them.
They do this to the point of receiving threats from people they have ridiculed.
Scientists are also guilty of stretching past facts they know into ideas they believe that no questioner has the tools to question. For example, science presenters love to speak for hours on the age and size of the universe where no average person is capable of discovering the facts or refuting the fact themselves. Also one must consider the practical applications of these theories for the common man.
To illustrate: Why are we explaining the gravity of space dust to a puppet?
Why is the puppet supposed to be interested?
Scientist: Well, just because?
And they pick and choose between scientists, as well. Dr's were censored over covid by big tech (the government pushed that behind the scenes) using other outlets to do what they themselves could not do.
It was not anti intellectual thoughts. Commenting against elitism, masquerading as intellectualism a better description.The goal of this thread was NOT to express your anti-intellectual thoughts about science.
Why build something new when we already have wormholes? With quantum "entangled" we are already there because there is no time at the speed of light. That is why we could travel to the center of the Universe and back again because there is no time involved. We can see the beginning, but we cannot go back to the beginning. The laws of physics only go forward in time, and they do not allow for time travel to the past.You won't say that after I finish my QCD-Dark Energy Interaction warp drive.
Feel free to provide sound evidence in support of your assertion. I doubt it, but I don't deny it, therefore you have an opportunity to gain a convert to your viewpoint. All I require is the evidence.It was not anti intellectual thoughts. Commenting against elitism, masquerading as intellectualism a better description.
No we don't.Why build something new when we already have wormholes?
Your nightmares aren't evidence.With quantum "entangled" we are already there because there is no time at the speed of light. That is why we could travel to the center of the Universe and back again because there is no time involved. We can see the beginning, but we cannot go back to the beginning. The laws of physics only go forward in time, and they do not allow for time travel to the past.
Einstein's field equations for general relativity produces mathematical type universes which have no physical reality and physical universes which do.Why build something new when we already have wormholes?
You left out the sentence before that quote of mine which puts what I said in context i.e.Here is an example from your latest post.
“Part of the problem I think is that there are many so called scientific facts claimed that have no clear basis so are open to interpretation especially in social sciences:
Yes as I said I am not disputing those hard facts. Tell me is it a fact that biological sex is binary being only male and female. Are there only 2 genders. What about human caused climate change, to what extent exactly is human made climate change a fact. What about evolution by natural selection and genetic mutation. Is that a fact for all human change and behaviour.Let me reiterate a scientific fact is not open to interpretation because it is a fact based on empirical evidence such as the diameter of the Earth being 12,742 km.
Though I sometimes speak in 3rd person I think I made myself clear.What I find confusing about your posts is the ambiguity of what you are trying to criticize; is it about post-modernism or science?
If it is about science you clearly do have an anti-intellectual view of science.
Thats because your creating a strawman. My original point was that PC has contributed to declining levels in western education regardless of whether it was happening on qualifying for Universities or standards in general dropping which I think I have clearly supported.Not only did you ignore my question of how the lowering of the entrance requirements for students will automatically produce dumbed down postgraduates with seven unrelated links which puts it in the territory of a Gish Gallop,
Flat out wrong seems a strong claim. Is that a fact. The articles I linked support that PC, woke and cancel culture ideology has caused a drop in education standards. It stands to reason. Many unies are compromising entrance standards to accommodate minorities who would not normally qualify to be PC (affirmative action).but also equating the drop in education standards with PC and wokeness is flat out wrong.
Actually PC was around or beginning to brew in the 1980's. Its the result of the cultural revolutions of the 60's. Philosopher Allan Bloom predeicted woke ideology in the 80's and he has been proven right since.The decline in educational standards in schools in Australia and the US has been known for decades far longer than PC and wokeness even became part of the narrative.
The reasons given are declining education resources resulting in overcrowded schools, a decline in the quality of teachers, a failure to adopt a back to basics approach in teaching etc.
Education has become more politicised with Leftist ideology and feminised. Feminism fits well with PC and Woke ideology. Girls once were behind and we installeed more girl friendly education. But at the same time these approaches were conflicting with young males. The new learning approaches of open classrooms, non competition, remaining still and quiet, share and care and self paced learning don't suit boys.Also in the same time frame has seen girls reach the stage of outperforming boys in practically every subject including STEM subjects.
Care to explain how PC and wokeness has had a gender effect assuming their effects are even real?
That wouled seem to point to even worse results for locals then. After factoring out forigners the picture will be even worse for declining western edeucation standareds. I think forigners seem to have higher levels of learning ande deisciplien and don't but into local politics. Put it this way, you deon't see woke and PC in Asian education. Quite the opposite.Let’s go to the opposite end of the education spectrum of students doing their PhDs and hopefully become scientists.
Even if PC and wokeness played a role locally, you don’t seem to realize universities are global education hubs where a large percentage of PhD students are foreigners not encumbered by such restrictions.
In Australia the percentage of foreign students doing their PhD in sciences is around 42%.
Here is a breakdown in the US of doctorates awarded.
I asked you to show me evidence of junk science getting through peer review in reputable journals such as Nature and Science.
Here you are engaging in blatant quote mining because reputable journals filter out junk science before it is even published while predatory journals by definition publish junk science and pseudoscience and have no validity in mainstream science.
For someone who claims they are not anti-science you seem to be going out of your to discredit science through Gish gallops and quote mining.
I have seen a wormhole, so for me, they exist. There were two angels and they told me it was not my time and I had to go back. I think they are a lot like optical fiber.As far as we know wormholes do not exist.
The transition from Newton's laws to Einstein's theory of relativity involved the accumulation of new evidence, the development of new mathematical tools, and the refinement of theories over time. It is an example of how scientific understanding evolves as new evidence and insights emerge.Let me reiterate a scientific fact is not open to interpretation because it is a fact based on empirical evidence such as the diameter of the Earth being 12,742 km.
The nightmare was when I was falling in a bottomless pit. Later on I read about a bottomless pit in the Bible. I have now learned that this is a volcano. The one I was in was not active.Your nightmares aren't evidence.
The nightmare was when I was falling in a bottomless pit. Later on I read about a bottomless pit in the Bible. I have now learned that this is a volcano. The one I was in was not active.
Revelation 9:2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.
Having a dream about Heaven or a dream about going to the center of the universe, I would not consider to be a nightmare. Christians do not have nightmares anyways because we put all of that under the Blood of Jesus.
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