Well, this hilarious video is based on preventive and complementary medicine, mistakenly used for acute situations. It could be a good parody on parodies. You guys are satisfied with cheap humour, indeed.

World without science? 90% less diseases, free energy, antigravity traffic, and global peace. We'd have all that in 20th century, witout scientists, claiming that this is impossible. Science is not religion, but both are organized. Organized science is anachronism, just like organized religion. The structure of institution makes it rigid, resistant to change. Now, mathemathics is superior to the observations and their results. Yes, there are "changes" in science, but that's within an academic club of the chosen, while the underground scientific community grows with the exiled ones. Electric universe, non-existence of time, mistaken Einstein, Silvertooth experiment, these are some parts from the free science, which I admire.

As for the scientific proficiency of early people, I wouldn't underestimate them so much. I had read articles about brain surgeries and skull trepanations, which the patients survived. Some holes even had a bone plug, which grew together with the skull. Although, I wonder if the patients were volunteers.

antigravity traffic

Luminon wrote:

antigravity traffic

Without science?

I don't think that word means what you think it means. 

 

Well, examples for good and bad. Just remember Thomas A. Edison's fervent war against alternate current or Pasteur's theft of Bechamp's discoveries. There should be no scientist privileged over another, because rivalry, slander and corruption in science has a particularly dangerous consequences. We must acknowledge, that scientists are just people, with possible human weaknesses  and flaws of character. And that sometimes a common person may solve something which a professional couldn't. But generally, on local universities and scientific workplaces, there are people who treat a common man like shit. They don't care about intellect, common sense or truth, they care only about academic titles, money and positions of power. Mass media love them.

The worst are the skeptics from Sisyfos club. They want to take from the people the right and freedom to choose the method of healing. So far, they strive for a biased, negative campaign in media and refusal to recognize the alternative medicine in legislative. But I guess, here I cry on a wrong grave

Depolymerization is a method of breaking down organic waste on petrol, in water, under pressure and high temperature. In USA there is planned (or already built) a factory for that, but not here, in Europe.
One local scientist had a patent on this technology. He wanted to start a mass production of portable, depolymerized petrol-powered generators. He needed money, so he did what is usually done in such a cases. He received an expert's report on the device, and it was estimated on about 750 millions of dollars. He did put this value as a base capital to his company. But this would endanger the local petrol market. It would be a problem, if people could make their petrol at home. So some people hired another expert to estimate that depolymerization technology, and this time, it was only about 35 millions of dollars. The scientist was accused, that he intended to sell the overpriced technology. He had to hide from the police for several years, and then he was found and locked up. However, he had no intention of selling that technology, he specially wanted to keep it public and affordable, so the petrol magnates couldn't buy it and take it away from the people. This attitude took away his freedom. I know that, because people from our group had a personal contact with him when he was still free. He wouldn't sell the rights, no matter what.

So some scientists disagreed with each other.  This isn't uncommon. I don't understand how this links into some science malaise.

The who?

There's a reason there are so few plants... it isn't cost effective.  It's cheaper to prodcue oil and other side products by other processes. After at least 5 years the company was still working at a loss.  That's not good - and can happen even if there isn't an "evil conspiracy" working against you.

And for the record... if you're inventing something you don't ask for an experts report.  You perform "due diligence" yourself.  If you want to start a company you assure investors of this due diligence, which they then check against current patents and scientific literature, and, if your claim stands, things can then move forward.  I know this because I have my name on 4 different patents and have gone through the process several times.  The only people that tell you what a technology may be worth are the people investing in it.  No outside expert will give you a value that means anything  unless you've paid them (and are therefore biased in your favour) or they have an invested interest.

Not only that, you don't fully explain what your scientist friend was accused of. He was a criminal because 2 different indepenedent experts gave him different values for his super secret technology?  Really?