Den O Rourke (@denbearorourke.bsky.social)

science only exists in the gaps between knowledge, so identifying and recognising these gaps is an important part of the process.

Thomas Van Flandern was an American astronomer and scientist who became increasingly frustrated with the mainstream view that was being taught to society regarding the facts of history, astronomy, and even the nature of reality itself. In the early 1980’s he gave a profound quote which stated: “Events in my life caused me to start questioning my go

At its best, science roams all unknown waters, with ethics at its helm and sails spread with the processive value of coming to know rather than the possessive value of owning the known.

This is the moral hazard Socrates warned against—that by alienating our knowledge, making it “external to us,” we have bought an immense measure of power over the world at the expense of having power over ourselves.