Freedom of Science

I would recommend physicists friends to read this Supreme Court transcript from February 21, 2007 for the  case Microsoft v. AT&T.
Below are some of the familiar physics concepts discussed by Justices and the lawyers arguing the case (numbers are how many times they are mentioned).
Thing = 36
Tangible = 3
Photon = 5
Physical = 46
Matter = 13
Mass […]

The professional mythology marketed by physicists wants us to believe that physics is an experimental science.
There are three problems with this mythology:
1. In physics there is no definition of what an experiment is. Any physicist can publish his measurements of the oscillations of an oscillator as an experiment.
2. In physics canon there are many historical […]

Second tier Scholastic Shaman Doctor Sean has done it again! In this post at Cosmic Variance Doctor Sean uses his powerful cabalistic extropolation powers to extrapolate reckelessly to 14 billion years.
If this does not appear to you as sharlatanism of the lowest grade consider this:
Let’s assume that the Earth’s atmosphere is simpler than the Universe.
No […]

I always note here how lawyers and physicists are practitioners of the same profession. But there is a difference: compared to physicists lawyers are high class scientists.
Here’s a good example. Read the post there and then come back here.
I want to quote the judge:
It is as if the question debated were the contents of a […]

How corrupted modern physics is!
No physicist ever observed any fundamental building block of matter. How can there be fundamental building blocks of matter when there is no matter.
No particles were ever smashed in any “particle” accelerator. Physicists observe traces of motion, the history of motion, and as dogmatic priests of Newtonist atomic materialist religion they […]

1. If a physicist knows that a physics experiment is fraud does he or she have the duty to expose the experiment as a fraud?
2. Can any physicist claim to be a scientist while there is one single experiment in physics which is fraud?
3. Are physicists bound by ethical standards which force them to betray […]

I did not know that mathematics was also inflicted with the same scholastic disease as physics. But I read that doctors of mathematics consider 2 to be prime!
Obviously, there cannot be a prime which is also even. 2 is even. Therefore, 2 is not prime.
Furthermore, 1 is not a number. 1 is unity. Unity should […]

It is not fair to generalize the ills of physics to all doctors of philosophy. The reason is that 99 per cent of doctors have no say in altering the code of physics. 99 per cent of doctors spend their careers serving the hierarchy and teaching the dogma to the next generation of doctors.
So when […]

Bee objected to my calling physicists “Scholastic Doctors of Philosophy” and I told her that I would address this issue soon. Here it is:
It is true that physics is not a monolith. I wouldn’t want to classify a media shaman like Lisa Randall and Bee in the same category. I wouldn’t want to classify a […]

In his comment to my post “Natalie Jeremijenko Fan Club” Charlie Marcus of Harvard University disagreed that “the standard of evidence in academic physics is zero.”
Even though I agree with Prof. Marcus’ assessment that my “brush is too wide here” I still believe that the standard of evidence in physics in general is zero. Let […]