What is junk science?
In simple words, junk science means performing heavy research and publishing papers on “how to grow cucumbers in the space”. I am not kidding. People are doing research on this. Graduate schools are funded by this type of research.
Rockets fail systematically, fall freely, and get smashed. Sometimes we are lucky enough to see some debris, fireworks, if you may (of course, I am being funny. Absolute sarcasm. It’s a tragedy whenever they fail). Billions of Dollars are spent on making ships that were supposed to be lunched to Mars when? 2021? 2022?
Why are we even funding these projects? Who wants to grow cilantro in space? I have come to this rigid conclusion that people who work in academia, and industry, at times, have lost heir minds. Maybe they didn’t have one in the first place.
But why are they still funded?
We still haven’t figured out to grow one cell. We haven’t figured out the simplest mechanisms in the body of a plant. What makes human eligible to spend all the resources on deep research? We still take advantage of the macro world, and Newtonian physics. We still reply on building machines, tools, and objects, to cure humans, without even caring about atoms and molecules. What makes us believe that we need to spend our Planet’s wealth on something out of reach, and frankly stupid?
Maybe we need to fire those in academia and industry, first. They haven’t made any stable research line. The only stable line they have created, is their monthly, petty stipend. Clearly, academics are not smart. The smart ones either died or turned stupid. Why are we even keep ourselves busy with junk science?
If you communicate with academics, you will find almost all of them coming from another planet. They know anything about real life. They have been stuck in a small room, gotten paid on a regular basis in the past many years, and are on a rabbit hole to nonsense. We don’t need this.
At some point, academia will be considered like religion. Debatable. How may religious people do you see on a daily basis? Academia is already considered a religions with many branches. Everyone is proud of what they have done and what they are, and they hold prejudice against one another. Everyone is a king in their own imaginary world. Do we even need this? Can’t we invest on something else, instead of these old fashioned, small, petty people, surrounded by their hallucination, distanced from reality?
Need to add this. There were many theories / hypothesis until 1940s in science. The unforgettable mistake was to build on those works, which scientists did without testing their theories properly, and by applying modern techniques.
This is why science is backwarding, and why junk science has taken over.
This is why science and junk scientists are going down, and are taking respectable people down with them, too (there are not too many noble people in science. It’s mostly junk and garbage).
Majority of people who are in science, failed being accepted in the medical school. It’s a universal rule. You need a bachelor, high scores, excellent work, and decent interview process in order to be accepted in the medical school, and dentistry. Some people aren’t able to make it. What do they do, instead? Come to the grad school, and try their chances again, and again, until they get a failed Ph.D.
Academia is a collection of people, not all, but majority, at least in the places I have been, that are struggling. Academia is rotten from inside. It comes from people who are trying to meet the end by the dead end, hollow from inside projects. Year by year passes, and these people keep emphasizing on how groundbreaking their research is, and the only breaking that happens, is the back bone of the funding, that should be spent on worthier matters, and cleverer people.