Removing the veil of separation

[Anders]

I think it was Leo Gura who said that in a sense science is even worse than religions in terms of dogma. With religions there is at least a choice which dogma to believe. Science on the other hand has monopoly on their dogma.

But aren't there alternatives such as alternative science and New Age etc? Well, take a look at Wikipedia and see how much of those alternative views are included. And scientific journals are even worse, where in order to get a paper published it has to fit the narrow dogma of already established science. In a sense that's good, because it removes too speculative ideas. The problem is that the scientific dogma has become so hard, rigid and piled up, that it's difficult to change the dogma and instead of admitting that a theory has been falsified they modify it with more and more ad hoc additional fudge factors. Mainstream science has become too big to fail. Too many careers and institution depend for their survival on the whitewashed facade of their ivory tower not having too many cracks in it. Removing the veil includes removing the facade of false scientific dogma and preserving the genuine science. There is lots of good scientific research too and the scientists themselves probably want to see a cleanup of their own field taking place.