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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Robert Lee Park was an American emeritus professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a former director of public information at the Washington office of the American Physical Society. Park was most noted for his critical commentaries on alternative medicine and pseudoscience, as well as his criticism of how legitimate science is distorted or ignored by the media, some scientists, and public policy advocates as expressed in his book Voodoo Science. He was also noted for his preference for robotic over manned space exploration.
The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it.
All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?
This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.
Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.