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A corrosive book that will change minds
(A criticism of the division of science into subjects)
Tom Capri, the author of The Poverty of Science, is neither a physician nor an astronomer. He is just another autodidactic “archeologist” of the universe, among dozens of them, in search of the answers for the greater questions of humanity. The difference is that he seems to have found some of these answers, as it becomes clear in the text of The Poverty of Science.
If Tom Capri’s findings are evidenced by the authentic science – and he admits that his propositions may be contested –, they should stir all scientific disciplines, from physics to medicine.
Besides, they should throw down journalism, religion, family, education, law, the State, politics, in brief, all the institutions and modern thought. Moreover, they should also change human life in as much as the discoveries of Einstein, Galileo and Newton did.
The author presents strong arguments to show that information does travel faster than the speed of light, which goes against what Einstein said, and defends that the theories of the big bang and superstrings are lame and do not sustain themselves. Likewise, he affirms that neutrinos have a mass, which still raises doubts among scientists. The new concepts of science, emptiness, energy and antimatter presented in the book also seem to be pertinent and precise.
Tom Capri’s findings in physics are not the central point of this work, but the questionings he makes about modern science – the one that is out there -, which are proved to be scientifically valid. The author shows – through his easy-reading text, accessible even to outsiders – that it has been a long time since scientists don’t make true science, and that includes the British Stephen Hawking and the Brazilian Marcelo Gleiser.
Without knowing it, today’s scientists are “framed,” working for States, multinationals and laboratories, and so, for the capital. They can only get to new discoveries if the answers they find can be turned into products or best-selling and profitable merchandises, like medicines, cell phones, personal computers etc.
However, the solutions for the greatest human problems – which man used to find naturally, in the work he expended in primitive societies – neither fit in size nor in format inside a consumer product. They are much wider and complex.
In The Poverty of Science, we also get to know why today’s science only occasionally finds the answers to our problems. In fact, science is more interested in the solutions for the questions that afflict the capital, not humanity. For this reason, scientists don’t make true science anymore, except accidentally.
To have this type of consciousness is something very good and important nowadays. But better and more important is to wake modern scientists, who – most of them, alienated – lost sight of everything that looks obvious.
The Poverty of Science makes us verify that today’s scientists don’t even know the basic rules of their work. So, they are constantly misled and falling into false problems, which brings more destruction to Gaia, our planet.
Communication means are also harshly criticized in the book, accused of making pseudo-science (which is the same as having a wrong interpretation of reality). Finally, everything has to be modified, and these changes start by reading The Poverty of Science.
As you have already noticed, The Poverty of Science is, to say the least, demolishing. In addition to the critical deconstruction of modern science and the media, the text is also a violent shake in the convictions (normally defective and false) that are deep-rooted in me, you, that is, in modern men and the media.
The book can obviously be contested, but that will be the reader’s duty. The text might also be another bluff in humanity’s wide collection of them. But even being so, it is also a strong promise of a true tsunami, or an authentic universal hecatomb.
If approved by authentic science, the book will surely stir journalism, religion, art and current scientific practices in their most varied disciplines. After all, it should contribute to burn down the sociability governed by the capital, which is the main target of this website.
