Science for Heretics by Barrie Condon

Science for Heretics by Barrie Condon

Science is everywhere, our medicines, our transport, what we eat and drink. Like it or not, we can't make real progress without it. There's just one dilemma . What if there are profound problems with all aspects of scientific theory and methods?

Could it be that the idea of universal laws underpinning reality is a falsehood and, as a result, we need more and more scientists, and more and more computing power, to produce greater and greater elaborations of our theories to make them fit inconvenient experimental data?

We're being forced to break science down into smaller and smaller sub-specialities, each with ever more divergent theories applicable only to one speciality and not applicable to others. Rather than an underlying unity we are finding only disparity and greater complexity. What's worse, scientists are routinely having to resort to completely untestable concepts, such as many more spatial dimensions and infinite universes, to 'explain' our reality. Throughout the history of science, reputable figures in science and philosophy have been casting doubt on some of the central assumptions of science and its various disciplines.

For the first time, we have a book that dares to summarise these profound concerns in a way that is accessible to the general reader, who lacks a scientific background. It also provides a warning to Mankind of the risks we run by not acknowledging the, often, hollow foundations on which science is built.

Condon, Barrie: - Barrie Condon has degrees in Physics, Oceanography and Nuclear Medicine. Now retired, he spent over thirty years as a Medical Physicist working for the UK's National Healthy Service as a Consultant Scientist. He also held an Honorary Professorship with the University of Glasgow, and at the peak of his career was responsible for the work of over 300 scientists and technologists. His own research work has mostly been on the neuroscience applications of medical imaging techniques, such as MRI and Nuclear Medicine. He is an author on over 80 full research publications in peer-reviewed publications, such as the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, and on over 200 national and international conference presentations.

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ISBN 13	9781916457218
ISBN 10	1916457215
Title	Science for Heretics
Author	Barrie Condon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sparsile Books Ltd
Year published	2019-01-15
Number of pages	308
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