David Douglass Quotes
Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.
Douglass, David H. "Nobel Laureates and Climate Change." American Thinker, 2015.
This is a fundamental difference between science and religion. Politicians fall on both sides. Those who take a scientific view that everything in politics is provisional and might change and those who are ideological where the ideology is a fixed credo.
This is a very material quotation with regard to Congress creating science-related policies and legislation. The members of Congress know the least about scientific matters than almost anything else that they have to legislate about. So typically they rely on scientific experts. Scientists are witnesses at Congressional hearings and often the political, polarized staff arrange to have scientists who disagree in something. They both have PhDs in the field, but one may be a great scientists and the other, a lightweight. This is where Alverez’s point becomes so critical. The Congress and staff have to learn how to differentiate between a “second rater” or a “Fermi” one of the great physicists of all time.
Belief and/or ideology of even teh vast majority or the world has no influence on the vaidity and truth of science. A particualr scientific statement is true or not based an many factors, none of which have anything to do with beliefs, world views, custims, cultures, or religious doctrine.
David H. Douglass (born 1932) is an American physicist at the University of Rochester.
