I'm a little confused by people sometimes. It's easy to understand why not everyone likes or understands science. Some things can be harder to get by some than others.
But maybe before trying to develop your own ideology, calling bullshit free thought, pretending you know what's up, and going as far as to bash the parents of modern physics from a century ago and calling them elitist ilk, try giving it a shot by at least familiarizing yourself with methods and concepts.
Science is not elitist, the information is out there. You can learn all about it for free! Everyone can. Try bouncing around on Wikepedia at least, it will tell you everything. As a matter of fact, many organizations involved with current research and development, share freely with the public exactly what they are doing, many of them with very detailed reports!
Science is not bullshit either. The whole point of science is to solve problems. Keep in mind that you are reading this on a device brought to you by the internet, which are results of a century of development! It turns out, computers aren't magic sent to us by God! 😱
And yes, abuse of technology exists. People have known this since before you were born. It doesn't mean that all of it is elitist shit. If that's the way you feel, then get off the goddamn internet and go eat from trees and touch grass for the rest of your life. If you are one of these manipulators who spreads this shit, preying on dumb people to give you a dollar, and are reading this on a screen now, then you are quite literally a hypocrite and an interloper. The rest of us who want to see progress don't need you at all.
And oh yes, things will continue to progress. The next eras are quantum technology, and the colonization of the solar system. Deal with it. 😎
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b3aconator
The issue people have with "science" isn't the process of accumulating knowledge it's mostly in how "science" by large labs is presented as fact and people are asked to turn against their own intuition to believe unproven and poorly vetted "sciences."
You look into the trusted science of our age and you'll see a lot of inconsistency, statistics per capita are presented as raw numbers for instance "population A did blank 100,000 times this year and population B did blank only 50,000. There's seriously a problem with population A, here's a regulation and how we're going to push it into the lives of every day citizens."
-presented by conflict of interest institution 1, in collaboration with conflict of interest group 2
Except population B made up 10% of the surveyed crowd and population A makes up 90%
"Oh you see the exact opposite of what we are cramming down your throat with biased and poorly controlled studies? Well that's your anecdotal experience and you're an idiot" except the methodology is a lie and is misrepresented.
I know I'm ranting, but this happens day in and day out, so much "mainstream" science is subject to this and it just turns people off of the whole subject, gives the impression "If someone in a lab-coat tells me something, they're just lying and trying to sell me something" which is typically the case.
"This science means we take your taxes and give them here instead of what you know to be true, and this science means we take your kid away because we've abstracted that into psychological abuse, the science we conducted in extreme bias with crazy profit incentive proves it!"
It's a nasty perversion of the research and discovery I always dreamed of participating in as a kid.