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Originally Posted by KenGee
oh dear why has it become "fashionable" to have a go at scientist? My father was a tradesman he always said that engineers were a waste of space. The only time any of "their" inventions worked was when a tradesmen fixed it. why waste all that money on engineers when tradesman do the real work?
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Faison – my back side. I don’t give fig for what’s fashionable. I’m old fart, retired now and I have been working with scientists for good part of my working life. Including PHD ex NASA, PHD ex Tandy corporation and assortment of others. By the way I have to some degree agree with your father assessment of engineers. I was lucky that I never put out design the needed tradesman to fix it. Not because I’m so good or clever. I believe it thorough testing of the prototypes. So after I did tortured my design with all the abuse I could thing of I gave it to the most stupid person in the company to test it. If it did not fail then there was one more – most important test. I gave the prototype to my wife to use it. It did usually fail writhing short time. Well – back to the drawing board ( computer now days)
But I’m off the topics. When I was younger I held unshakable believe in the correctness of the science. My introduction to the workings of the Universe began with scientific arguments that the Universe is a infinitive and hydrogen atom popping up randomly in the space. Although Hubble determinate that some of so called Nebulas are in fact Galaxies sometimes in late twenties of last century such a discovery did not reached me until sixties because the books was reading called galaxies – nebulas. That is my point about Internet revolution in my first post. It is obvious that theoretical conclusions of the scientists will be exposed to the greater scrutiny then ever before. Especially if their conclusions contain gaps in the logics or are incompatible with the findings of another field of science.
Finally – I do not know what you do for living . You may be self-employed and then there in no issue. But before I retired from the work place there was ever increasing pressure on all employees to increase productivity and efficiency. I was working 65 to 70 hours a week. Everyone was stretched to the limit. Not that the company gained any benefits from it. But it was a “ fashion” something worked out by Economists and Political scientist. If such a model is good enough for the general population it should also be good enough for the scientific community. Show the results or look for other job. Who in the hell is going continue to finance people who after life time of the research are going to tell us how hot was the Universe when it was size of mandarin (if it ever was of that size).