The Scientific method developed over the centuries as curious men and women basically played with the objects and substances they found around them and discovered what happens when you throw this thing at that thing, combine one powder with another liquid, noticed that the same curve shows up in seashells and flowers, and found that when you write down numbers, you can use them to predict what happens when, instead of guessing and losing money, time, limb or life. Elders passed down to the youngers a slowly growing body of “knowledge” that you could rely on to build buildings that didn’t fall down, plant crops that didn’t fail, build ships that didn’t sink, and sail them around the world and find your way home. Eventually, the application of science to business and commerce created the modern economy and an ever-growing supply of improvements to the human condition. Not saying there haven’t been drawbacks and huge inequities, still today, but take a sample of people living in the top half today, and take them back to 100 B.C, and they’ll all want to come back to the present. So, now we have about one-third of the United States that doesn’t trust experts, doesn’t follow scientists’ advice, doesn’t believe in science at all, OR is just so ignorant that you can’t blame them for being mistrustful, because their world view is closer to 100 B.C. than it is to today, even though they use all of the amenities that science and technology has provided. All those photos of calving icebergs and time-lapse movies of shrinking glaciers must be fake, right?


WTF Happened? Well, I’ll tell you…

Eventually. Once I figure it out.