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A documentary-style mini-series that touches on bunches of the history of western science, but then gets absolutely horrifyingly abysmally wrong. So wrong as to be a bunch of lies.

2009-03-20 ∞

Episode 10 ∞

He is outright lying about so many things.

• ~10:00 — He goes on and on in such a horribly flawed manner. He claims that the way the brain works is a choice.. etc. Just awful.
• 14:40 — NO, NO NO NO you do not “have to make up your mind about them in advance”. That’s complete and utter bullshit.
• 16:00 — NO, science IS NOT ABOUT DISCOVERING THE TRUTH.
• 19:10 — What the fuck? Science CAN AND DOES “rock any boats”.
• 22:40 — No, wrong. It does not affect what you consider to be reliable evidence.
• 23:50 — Piltdown Man: In the decades prior to its exposure as a forgery in 1953, scientists increasingly regarded Piltdown as an enigmatic aberration inconsistent with the path of hominid evolution as demonstrated by fossils found elsewhere. [ 1 ]
• 26:30 — No, science does not hang on like grim death .. and does not care about status quo.
• 31:00 — Does he not understand what a contemporary scientific theory is? It’s based on observed facts. The historical crap is just nonsense that people dreamed up with no, little or flawed evidence.
• 32:00 — No, science is NOT only about what society thinks is important. Ever hear of “pure research“?
• 33:00 — Other ways like ours? NO. They don’t bother with evidence. They just imagine nonsense and believe things dogmatically.
• 34:45 — NO, science is NOT about “giving purpose”.
• 35:10 — NO, science does not use “symbols”. It has observable evidence-based falsifiable theories which make testable predictions. Fucking get it right.
• 40:00 — Yes, non-scientific views of the world ARE NECESSARILY IGNORANT. They aren’t based on actual observable evidence. They are made up.
• 40:25 — No, science makes no attempt at giving certainty. It is by definition uncertain.

• 41:30 — Umm, no.. people who “disagree” with science are politely ignored. People who can bring up differing evidence, or an alternate theory are accepted. This is mandatory.

Footnotes

1. The Piltdown Plot – the chain of fraud (archive) [ ↩ ]