Comments on: Thirty Helens Agree https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/13/thirty-helens-agree/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Mr Jan David Fisher https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/13/thirty-helens-agree/#comment-5397 Sat, 15 Jul 2017 06:04:55 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6702#comment-5397 Jpatrick, I beg to differ with you! The history of science in its various fields contains stories of up-and-coming new scientists being confronted and blocked by the current “leader” and expert scientist of the day. Science does indeed advance by consensus. Thi is especially true when the “new” idea is counter to current notions and theories, or seems counterintuitive to the current thinking. New ideas must be “proven” and confirmed by repeating the measurements by others in order to become accepted. Remember “cold fusion?” Coming closer to home, what about the false paper written by a doctor proving that vaccines caused autism. Other doctors could not repeat his data and he finally admitted the fraud. Too many parents have refused to get their children inoculated and measles is coming back. Over 1500 children have died. Should the doctor be charged with mass murder?

When Einstein released both his theories on special relativity and general relativity, these theories were not accepted by the current of the day scientific community as proven theories. It wasn’t until some of the predicted effects within his theories were noticed, checked, and rechecked that the theories were on the path of acceptance.

]]> By: Jpatrick https://briankoberlein.com/2017/07/13/thirty-helens-agree/#comment-5394 Fri, 14 Jul 2017 17:32:38 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=6702#comment-5394 I find these attempts to “measure” consensus pointless, and any attempts to “refute” them equally pointless. Science does not advance by consensus.

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