I've been discussing science via video with Barklord and some others taking part. He has got me thinking about various aspects of how I view science and perhaps take for granted my view, which really is my own view. There is no concensus that I ever found on exactly what science is, what it means, and our conversation is bringing to the fore various scandals and disgraces which may be laid at the feet of science.
On the one hand some things I do not fathom due to a basic difference of perspective. I see the scientific urge, which I see as a natural type of human curiosity, and not the only type, in all environments, in people in more or less, in principle, every village, city and community.
But in considering this, I have to admit, I also could complain about the corruption of science, which itself, it occurs to me, is so long that one could consider "it" (what I think of as corruption) as a part of "science". For example, I was considering good old Archimedes. He was a military engineer. I would of course grant that he is part of the history of science, but his work in the "science of throwing things at people". So I'll write more on that later.
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