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Ming Yang Firewalls Europe, US Turbine Orders Surge

Allen covers Ming Yang’s firewall from Beijing and Octopus Energy deal, US turbine orders hitting a three-year high, and Norway’s floating wind funding.

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Ming Yang Firewalls Europe, US Turbine Orders Surge

There are so many tragic aspects to life in today’s United States that it’s hard to name them all.

For my money, one of the saddest elements to the American zeitgeist is its glorification of ignorance.

Up until recently, if you wanted to know what science believes about anthropology, climate change, or particle physics, you asked a scientist in the relevant discipline, who not only has a college degree, but normally a ton of education on top of that.

Now, you ask a congressional Republican, preferably, an evangelical Christian.

Celebrating American Ignorance

To the author of the meme here (if it’s an actual human being, vs. a Russian bot): to the best of my knowledge, the only actual major “scientific fraud” in world history was “Piltdown Man.”  In 1912, a pseudo-anthropologist attempted to fool the scientific community into believing he had discovered the “missing link” between apes and humans.

Now, are there examples of instances when the science of the day turned out to be incorrect?

Of course, and new instances of this surface every day.

Think of how little when scientists believed 200 years ago is still intact today.  Perhaps most obviously, Newtonian mechanics has fallen to relativity and quantum physics, but there are hundreds of other paradigm shifts in health and medicine, psychology, cellular biology, chemistry, and particle physics.

Contrary to what conspiracy theorists want you to believe, science is not a set of facts; it’s a methodology whereby we come to learn more about ourselves and the world around us.

Are there other methods by which we “learn?”  Sure.  Some uneducated guy goes on YouTube and becomes convinced that our consumption of fossil fuels is not causing the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans to rise.  I would argue that this conduct is inferior to the scientific method.

How and Why We Conduct Science