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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
| − | [[category:issues]]{{ | + | [[category:issues]]There have been efforts to hinder scientific progress and destroy scientific knowledge ever since the dawn of [[science]] at the end of the Middle Ages. This is generally because science obsessively seeks the [[truth]], which ultimately empowers individuals and tends to upset existing [[power structure]]s – especially those of organized [[religion]], where the reins of power depend heavily on unquestioning belief in unprovable or patently false information. |
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| + | Sometimes it is a disorganized, diffuse effort; at other times, it can be more focused and flare up into an outright [[war on science]].{{seedling}} | ||
==Related Pages== | ==Related Pages== | ||
| + | * [[war on science]] | ||
| + | * [[science destroys morality]] | ||
| + | * [[religion vs. science]] | ||
===Anti-Scientific Theories=== | ===Anti-Scientific Theories=== | ||
* [[Direct creation]] | * [[Direct creation]] | ||
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===Editorials=== | ===Editorials=== | ||
* '''2007-08-15''' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/15/endarkenment The age of endarkenment] | * '''2007-08-15''' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/15/endarkenment The age of endarkenment] | ||
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===Satire=== | ===Satire=== | ||
* '''2006-06-05''' [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49180 Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method] | * '''2006-06-05''' [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49180 Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:03, 21 August 2008
Overview
There have been efforts to hinder scientific progress and destroy scientific knowledge ever since the dawn of science at the end of the Middle Ages. This is generally because science obsessively seeks the truth, which ultimately empowers individuals and tends to upset existing power structures – especially those of organized religion, where the reins of power depend heavily on unquestioning belief in unprovable or patently false information.
Sometimes it is a disorganized, diffuse effort; at other times, it can be more focused and flare up into an outright war on science.
Related Pages
Anti-Scientific Theories
- Direct creation
- Geocentrism: you thought it went out with the middle ages, but it's back!
- Moving-Earth DECEPTION! (or is it a parody?)
- Wikipedia: Modern geocentrism
Links
Filed Links
- redirect template:links/smw
Editorials
- 2007-08-15 The age of endarkenment
Satire
- 2006-06-05 Rogue Scientist Has Own Scientific Method