Freedom of Science

1. Occult does not exist
I believe that occult does not exist. This is simply proved: Occult means supernatural. To deny the existence of the occult simply means that nature is not supernatural.
Principle:

Nature is not supernatural.

I use the denial of the occult as a principle to prove, for instance, that Newtonian force does not exist because […]

A quantum diaries survivor at A Babe in the Universe re Galileo’s 404th birthday:
The physics department where I work is named after Galileo. As you walk up the entrance stairs, you face a brass incision with his head and the sentence, which I love:
 
I value more finding the truth, even on a trivial matter, than […]

I just saw a headline about a lawyer who claimed to have worked 1,271 days in one year.
Even by the loose standards of legal profession this drew the attention of authorities as bordering on fraud. And indeed auditors took note and state comptroller started an investigation.
Physics too is a legal profession and physicists routinely make […]

Thus spoke Newton, the founder of modern physics:
God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable movable particles.
God is Newtonian
No. You are not reading Genesis 1. Although Newton is referring to the same God. Like all other prophets finding in themselves the right to speak in the name of God, Newton too finds […]

I decided to draft proposals that I may or may not send to institutions that may or may not fund Freedom of Science blog. Here’s the first one written to Perimeter Institute. Since Perimeter Institute is interested in foundational issues I have emphasized a foundational slant in this proposal.
Perimeter Institute was founded by Mike Lazaridis […]

In cooking you start with a theory. If you boil water and put rice into it the rice will cook, you theorize. Then you work out the mathematical details. It turns out that 2 parts water and 1 part rice cooked 20 minutes gives good results. Then you publish your theory as a step by […]

Physicists think that physics is the tool they use to investigate nature. Both physics and nature are undefined. One cannot use physics to investigate nature. You can only investigate a representation or database or history. And to do this you only need a pattern recognition talent or faculty or tools.
I read here that Analogia means […]

Doctor of Philosophy Sabine Hossenfelder declares that “peer review is an essential ingredient of science.”
I say that peer review is not an essential ingredient of science.
Peer review is a self-regulation rule invented by Doctors of Philosophy themselves to regulate their professional corruption so that they don’t cheat each other by publishing crap.
Doctors doctor, so they […]

What snow is to Eskimos force is to physicists. As explained here by a physicist there are several Eskimo languages and these languages are all polysynthetic which means that
one can put several nouns with describing adjectives together into one word — which gives a new word. i.e. there is snow, there is frozen-snow, frozen-and-dirty-snow, frozen-and-dirty-snow-with-a-crust-that-breaks-if-one-steps-on-it, […]

Google now lists several pages about Newtonic Oath! They all suspiciously appear to be created by the same author
      
But there have been some very nice comments at Physics Forums and people were curious enough to check the Wiki but no one so far edited existing clauses or suggested a new one.
To make things easier […]