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In reply to the discussion: Student science experiment finds plants won't grow near Wi-Fi router [View all]Cerridwen
(13,262 posts)knowledge of science as you learned...?
Did you know that the theory that something called bacteria might cause disease was dismissed as impossible since it wasn't possible for something that "couldn't be seen" to be the cause of...anything...was quite absurd.
I wish I had the assuredness of the uninformed to completely dismiss something that doesn't fit with my world view; I truly do. I don't. I have knowledge of profits distorting scientific research and its outcomes; politics and ideology doing the same; self-interested and self-promoting "scientists" and snake-oil salesmen doing the same; and on and on.
Did you know that a woman's uterus would "atrophy" if she acquired knowledge from higher education? 19th Century "science" used to hold back women.
I wish I had the luxury to be as sanguine as you as to what is valid and what isn't. I have the misfortune of being knowledgeable about some of human history and how "religion", politics, and "science" have been used to justify the most horrendous of actions, events, and social engineering in our human history.
Nothing is as simple as it looks and nothing is acceptable as presented. Then there are all the places called the "middle" that exist within the spectrum.