Thursday, March 6, 2008

Cargo Cult Science - Richard Feynman

In the commencement address that Richard Feynman gave he addressed the fake or misleading ideas that some people make and the way that they are able to be proven wrong in a scientific world. It is true that no matter how unreal or unbelievable someones claim may be there will always be a group of people who will believe it. And despite the fact that there is no real evidence backing the unreal claims these people want it to be true so they keep on believing it. With the help of science many outrages claims of people being able to do things that are beyond any humans ability are able to be brought out into the open as the bogus claims that they are.
In science for a person to make a claim and have people believe it they must have strong evidence to back up their new findings. That is why science is so concrete. Even though the first time someone discovers something new it might not be completely right but at least there is evidence that there were experiments done so that people know that it wasn't something that was just made up by someone for everyone else to believe.

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