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If You Think About It, Science Sucks

December 2, 2009

Scientists at work Dan Majestic writes: Deep meaningful issues trouble my brain, from time to time: how come, I ask myself, we can send a spaceship to Mars and yet, we can’t correctly predict the weather for the next day?

We always hear that we live in a high-tech world where everything is push-button, remote controlled and very, very sophisticated. But we are still driving cars that are powered by engines that had been invented more than 100 years ago. (I especially like this example of science failing us miserably.) We can build state of the art weaponry and create ‘smart bombs’ that can fly through an open window into a building but we still can’t figure out how to produce energy without messing up our environment.

Let me be brutally honest and say this: science sucks. It is too busy creating staff that we don’t really need and it proves absolutely helpless when it comes to the really important things. Who on earth needs all these thousands of gadgets like I-pods and fancy mobiles with millions of functions in them to satisfy the egos of some dimwits and annoy everyone around? One of the most useless scientific achievements in the world of gadgetry was installing a loudspeaker into mobiles so that idiots could annoy us with their tunes that they download from the web. The quality of sound, resembling a noise coming from an empty beer can, is supposed to symbolise years of research and innovation. Why do we need for some half-a- brain to pester us with his collection of crappy songs?

And what is the big deal with these huge flat televisions with all their high-definition when there is absolutely nothing to watch on the box? It’s a wasted effort on making useless gadgets. Crappy shows look exactly the same in high-definition or low-definition or no definition, big or small screen. You can’t improve the content by developing the quality of the signal. If some mediocrity screams in some Cringe-Factor singing contest, it actually makes sense to make the sound less clear and save everyone from listening to this non-singing.

Question, penetrating question arise when you think about how hopelessly confused science is. Consider this for a moment: in our high-tech world with our fancy pharmaceutical industry we have thousands of absolutely useless medicines produced that make very little difference when it comes to serious illnesses. Why? Because, first of all, we still can’t learn to diagnose properly and are even lagging behind the ancient Greeks and Egyptians in that field and, secondly, the medicines we have are symptom suppressors and not problem solvers. All this talk about people living longer misses one point: you can become a zombie and live till you’re 100, but who wants to live like a vegetable for 20 or more years?

And here’s another example for you of science not really delivering much: how com if we have so many eggs-heads, supposedly coming up with brilliant solutions, we sleep walked into this climate change thing that is going to destroy us all? Where were all scientists before and why didn’t they develop clean technologies ages ago instead of realising only now that we are all going to perish in a new great flood? It does look odd when some nerdy looking smart arse tells us to switch off the lights and eat less meat to cut O2 emissions when these pails into insignificance compared to the damage that millions of cars with their internal combustion engines do to the environment? Not to mention the power stations running on coal. Why should we be held responsible just because our scientists stuck to inventing rubbish instead of concentrating on the important things?

Modern science sucks because the people involved in it get their priorities all wrong.

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One Response to “If You Think About It, Science Sucks”

  1. Annie on December 2nd, 2009 5:11 pm

    It would be fantastic if science could invent a hand-held radar to zero in on creeps like Hitler and Bin Laden by just punching their names into the device and it would light up red when close to the creep then the device could zap them. There would be no need to kill so many innocent people.
    Hitler isn’t a problem anymore but just think of all the people who would have survived that ghastly era if there was a device like this. Awesome.

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