WHY DOES SCIENCE ‘GO WRONG’?
(or anything else for that matter)
Do you understand where mathematics and physics ‘went wrong’ and why?
Well I do.
But then, that’s my occupational specialization. And the re-introduction of magical thinking has led to stagnation in those fields, and it spread to other fields, because math and physics are no longer the gold standard of epistemology precisely because they ‘went wrong’.
To study truth, I study lying. If you know how people lie, you know why they can. If you know why people can lie, then you know why people are vulnerable to lies. If you know how people are vulnerable to lying, you know why people can lie to themselves, and why they engage in ignorance, error, and bias as well: because they are vulnerable to it.
And once you know the cause of that vulnerability is the bias to obtain discounts on every want or need, conscious or unconscious, you also know why people bias toward ignorance, error, bias, fiction, fictionalisms, fraud, denial, undermining, projection, social construction, and canceling. Because we evolved to negotiate on behalf of our genes.
We only discovered ‘truth’ because it was necessary to cooperate at political scale, and resolve differences to do so. So error, bias, wishful thinking, loading, framing, suggestion, obscurantism, fiction, fictionalisms, frauds, denial, undermining et all, are natural to man. Truth is unnatural. That’s why it’s difficult.
-Cheers.