The Twilight of the Scientific Age

Martín López Corredoira

Jan 2013 · Universal-Publishers

About this ebook

This book gives a challenging point of view about science and its history/philosophy/sociology. Science is in decline. After centuries of great achievements, the exhaustion of new forms and fatigue have reached our culture in all of its manifestations including the pure sciences. Our society is saturated with knowledge which does not offer people any sense in their lives. There is a loss of ideals in the search for great truths and a shift towards an anodyne specialized industry whose main goal is the sustenance and procreation of an endogamic professional caste. A wide audience of educated people interested in these topics will most likely respond to the ideas expressed here as things they have thought about or observed, but have not dared to say out loud.

Ratings and reviews

This book is a very interesting read on the nature and problems of academic science in astronomy and astrophysics and particle physics. The basic thesis is that science as a method for truth is in decline and the resources that civilization provides science are being squandered on an overly orthodox scientaucracy. The book is a little disparaging, but it is nevertheless thought provoking. Unfortunately, this book has more despair than hope, more disillusionment than faith, and more fatalism instead of a chosen destiny. The author does not provide any quantitative metric to support the thesis, just anecdotes, but it is true that the current system of science is unfair and much too orthodox and you know, those are very good and valid points. The proposed solution is to have some kind of über bürokratie of really smart but otherwise fair people who would then be enlightened to permit more heterodoxy...really? Another scientaucracy will somehow correct all of the wrongs of the prevailing scientaucracy? By what measure? Since the author presents no measure of success, this hardly seems like a solution...just like more of the same problem.