Freedom of Science

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 […]

If Newton were alive today he would not be doing physics, he would be busy contributing to the new science of networks.1 
                             
In Newton’s time finding a tangent to a curve was the state of the art. Today computer science and finding properties of networks is the state of the art. Calculus is the 18th century technology. Academic physics […]

Chris Oakley writes:
Renormalizability is a swamp. Yes — you can get the right answer by subtracting infinity from infinity. But you can also get the wrong answer. You can get any answer you want. So why is anything that involves renormalization a scientific theory?
Division by infinity is unscientific.1 To market division by infinity as renormalization is scientific […]

John Baez writes: “For people who think they can do fundamental physics without much math, the correct answer is not “no!” so much as “I doubt it, but go ahead and try.”1
“You must use mathematics to do fundamental physics,” sounds like a good advice. It would have been even more helpful if it meant something.
John […]

[Note 10/15/2007: Today I read more about John Templeton and Templeton Foundation. I believe that my evaluation of this organization in the original post is not justified. I am sorry that I posted without researching the activities of Templeton Foundation more carefully. I leave the post as is because it shows how strong physicists’ propaganda […]

Herodotus1 of Halicarnassus2 is called the Father of History. He is the one who used the word historia first. By historia he meant research and inquiry. Herodotus lived in a society structured like ours. In the perpetual strife between science and mythology mythology was winning. Like today the ruling class marketed mythology as science to […]

Is String Theory physics? For physicists physics is a synonym for science therefore the question Is String Theory physics is same as the question Is String Theory science?
But if String Theory is not science as the majority of physicists believe can physics still be considered science? Not really. String Theory is physics. And String Theory […]

I wanted to reply as a new post to another one1 of Flip’s statements in this comment:
History isn’t science.
I understand the distinction you make between history and research. For instance, here I am studying the equation of motion of the Cavendish experiment. You agree that this is good science. Here I’m looking at the history […]

I want to understand what force is. This seems to be a simple question. What complicates the issue is that there are two ways of looking at the question.
1. Physicist’s way
2. Scientist’s way
1. Physicist’s way
In physics there is nothing to question: Force is what is defined as force in legal physics.
For physicists, whatever they define […]

Flip tomato has been offended and took down my pingback:
I’m taking down a ping-back from a blog which appears to have taken my joke rather too seriously and has made some statements about `physics scholasticism’ that I strongly disagree with.
He disagrees but does he have any proof that physics is not scholasticism?
A scholastic doctor is […]