We stand in awe of environment scientists because they unnerve us. In 20 years, the glaciers will melt; earthquakes, tsunamis and typhoons will devastate the earth, and many of the cities we so loved will be submerged under the sea; and half of the earth will turn into a global furnace that human beings will flee forgetting national borders to other regions and time zones. Scary enough we swallow every word as gospel truth to ward off the nightmare. After winning global attention and the Nobel Prize for the Himalayan endeavour, the same scientists say to err is scientific. There is no evidence after all to prove that natural calamities occur because of global warming. Harry Potter now seems more real than the science fiction our environment scientists presented.
Predicting a stock market crash was the favourite pastime of some economists; they forecast with such devastating precision that some thought it was scientific. Later the simple folks realized that the panic button they pressed created its own panic on the market that the prices came tumbling down. Economist Keynes who lost a million dollars but somehow regained it made a classic comment: `You can become a millionaire on the stock market, if you can forecast what a million fools will think tomorrow’. The Japanese believe monkeys make better stock market analysts than human beings and they give the monkey the dart to throw on the board where the major shares are listed. Man has many things to learn from monkeys!
Predicting a stock market crash was the favourite pastime of some economists; they forecast with such devastating precision that some thought it was scientific. Later the simple folks realized that the panic button they pressed created its own panic on the market that the prices came tumbling down. Economist Keynes who lost a million dollars but somehow regained it made a classic comment: `You can become a millionaire on the stock market, if you can forecast what a million fools will think tomorrow’. The Japanese believe monkeys make better stock market analysts than human beings and they give the monkey the dart to throw on the board where the major shares are listed. Man has many things to learn from monkeys!
The greatest tragedy of the Dark Age--science was ruled by the Church.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest tragedy of the 21st century--science is subjugated by politics. That's why we have an "American" science and a "Russian science".