Scientific Consensus
Monday, June 28, 2010 - 05:28
in Earth & Climate
Scientific Consensus Some scientific ideas are so easily grasped that they are easily explained to the general public. Other ideas can only be fully understood after a minimum level of training and studies in the relevant area. A few ideas are so obscure, so far removed from everyday experience that only a very few specialists fully understand the topic. Science is a landscape in which anyone may wander. How pleasant to sit in the green pastures of accumulated knowledge and dip the fingers in a stream of certainty. But how much more exciting it is to scuba-dive through flooded caves in search of the foundations of science: how much more satisfying it is to climb the highest peak and see the bigger picture. read more