Its also how science fails to take root: by discouraging people from trying things, just because it hasn't been rubber-stamped by the authorities yet ..
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation." - William Paley
This is the same William Paley (1743–1805) who proposed the watchmaker analogy arguing that complexity in nature was teleological evidence of a creator or intelligent designer.
I have always loved that quote, now I find I have been mis-attributing it for close to 30 years...
For quite some time it had been attributed to Herbert Spencer
exactly. science is sad sometimes, just like any other religion, it creates walls that some people get stuck inside of... waiting for some kind of "approval" by its priests
It seems that you get BOTH science and religion wrong. People are free and influence each other. That's a basic assumption we should take into account when understanding social phenomena. Start of story.
