What is Science?

People talk glibbery about science. What is science? People are coming out of university with a masters degree or a PHD. You take them into the field, they literally don’t believe anything unless it’s a peer reviewed paper. That’s the only thing they accept. And you say to them; let’s observe, let’s think, let’s discuss. they don’t do it. Only when it is in a peer-review paper or not. That’s their view of science. I think that’s pathetic. Gone in to universities as bright young people, they come out of it brain dead, not even knowing what science means. They think it means peer-review papers etc. No! That’s academia. and if a paper is peer-reviewed it means everybody thought the same therefore they approved it. An unintended consequence is when new knowledge emerges, new scientific insights, they can never ever be peer-reviewed so we’re blocking all new advances in science that are big advances. If you look at the breakthrough in science, almost always they don’t come from the center of that profession. They come from the fringe. The finest candlemakers in the world couldn’t even think of electric lights. They don’t come from within they often come from outside the bricks.