Nuclear physics is quite at the core of physics and totally mainstream, actually. And is just as reliable as anything else in science.All of this "secret science" you are talking about is pretty much by definition not mainstream science and has no bearing on how reliable mainstream science is. — Qmeri
If the magic doesn't work, it's religion — unenlightened
Religion, Homeopathy and Acupuncture do work. — ovdtogt
Again, I would emphasize that there are schools of thought in science, not mainstream and fringe science itself. The foundations of science are the same. The experiments are the same, publish them or not. You either have science or then you have non-science, humbug. You can have scientist disagreeing on a variety of issues, but either one is right and another is wrong or they are talking about different issues.I'm saying that a theory that has been evaluated and accepted by mainstream science is more reliable than a theory that has only been evaluated and accepted by a fringe group (like a selected group of contracted scientists who will keep their studies secret) simply because peer review does become more reliable with a larger mass of more diverse peer reviewers. Mainstream science is not the only way of getting reliable information, but it is usually the most reliable if one does not want to become an expert himself. — Qmeri
The fact that your GPS works is thanks to Einsteins relativity theory being correct. Without science, you would have very little engineering. — ovdtogt
I would emphasize that there are schools of thought in science, not mainstream and fringe science itself. The foundations of science are the same. The experiments are the same, publish them or not. You either have science or then you have non-science, humbug. You can have scientist disagreeing on a variety of issues, but either one is right and another is wrong or they are talking about different issues. — ssu
I think education for technology has taken us down a fool's path with a greatly over-exaggerated opinion of ourselves. — Athena
The GPS does require knowledge of something else though: not from a scientist, but from a mathematician by the name of Descartes. — frank
That is a nice belief but there are elites whose voice of authority weighs much more than others, and they can prevent correction just as the church of old was able to prevent correction, short of torturing and killing people. Only a person with much persistence and knowing people with strong connections can get past the control of these guardians of truth. — Athena
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