RETURN TO GOETHEAN SCIENCE OR THE PLATONIC ACADEMY

The corruption of modern science is one of the saddest features of modern social and economic life. Aristotle may have laid the foundation stone of  modern science, but it was not until the Enlightenment and the Reformation that his methods of objective observation of nature became the driving force which have led to the development of the scientific discoveries of the last 500 years. The technologies which define the modern world are the direct result of  our insights into the laws underlying the natural world, which have been deduced as a direct result of applying objective reasoning to what we see and experience. For this to be possible people needed to develop the capacity for independent freedom of thought and freedom of expression, and to not ruled by their feelings in a way which was characteristic of the everyday experience of medieval women and men.

One of the things we price ourselves on is our liberation from superstition and false pictures of the world. Whilst we have much to thank science for in this regard, the objectivity of science is currently being undermined and corrupted to such an extent that we may lose all that we have gained.