Its almost hilarious how much modern science is actually like the picture on the right. The picture on the left is the perfect world process, however in reality, the scientific community is plagued with scientific dishonestly and plagiarism. The more abstract and unknown a particular field of science is, the more likely you are to find people who devote their scientific careers to prove their specific theories that they nitpick evidence and research to support their own views rather than change them. Also there's the massive amount of studies that are just bullshit in nature that mean nothing and have no practical purpose.
i gratulate you hamster, you made it to the right side aswell ... edit: also some more pics i found on my dropbox ... (though its not fully true in terms of engineering, it is in terms of social science)
Christianity is just a stupid as Scientology. If the Bible emerged in 1950, people would have called it a bullshit story just like they did the with story of Scientology. If a story about Mecha-Dawkins was around 100BC, it would probably be a religion too.' Also
This isn't entirely accurate, the Dark Ages set the stage for the boom of enlightenment through copying of the massive amounts of knowledge coming in from the Islamic regions. Block printing in particular kickstarted the development of new universities and cheap creation and distribution of all kinds of literature.
exactly, islamic regions - if it would be for the catholic church wed still have a flat earth which is a few thousand years old, where created by god* and an unfailable pope (this only just changed in 1962!) *not like muslims would see that different