費(fèi)曼講述-科學(xué)日益發(fā)達(dá),偽科學(xué)也日漸盛行

費(fèi)曼語(yǔ)錄:
正因?yàn)榭茖W(xué)取得了巨大成功,我覺得出現(xiàn)了偽科學(xué)。
Because of the success of science, there is, I think, a kind of pseudoscience.
社會(huì)科學(xué)就是一門算不上科學(xué)的科學(xué),那些人的研究方法并不科學(xué)。
Social science is an example of a science which is not a science, they don't do scientifically.
他們遵循了某種形式,比如收集數(shù)據(jù),做這樣那樣的分析。
they follow the forms, you gather data, you do so-and-so and so forth.
但他們沒有得出任何定律,沒有什么真正的發(fā)現(xiàn)。
but they don't get any laws, they haven't found out anything.
目前尚未取得成果,也許有一天他們會(huì)有進(jìn)展,但這不是那么容易。
they haven't got anywhere yet,maybe someday they will, but it's not very well developed.
可現(xiàn)在的情況是,在更世俗的層面。
but what happens is on an even more mundance level.
幾乎每件事我們都有專家,聽上去像是所謂的科學(xué)專家。
We get experts on everything that sound like they're sort of scientific experts.
其實(shí)他們一點(diǎn)都不科學(xué),他們只是坐在打字機(jī)前胡編亂造,比如:
They;re not scientific, tehy sit at a typewriter and they make up something like
他們會(huì)說(shuō),用有機(jī)肥料種植的農(nóng)作物比用無(wú)機(jī)肥料種植的更有益健康。
Food grown with fertilizer that's organic is better for you than food grown with fertilizer that's inorganic.
也許是真的,也許是假的,但并未用某種辦法去證明。
may be true, may not be true, but it hasn't been demonstrated one way or the other.
他們就坐在打字機(jī)前編造,好像這就是科學(xué)。
But they'll sit there on the typewriter and make up all this stuff as if it's science.
然后他們就成了食品,有機(jī)食品等方面的專家。
and then become an expert on foods, organic foods and so on.
于是到處充斥著各自謬論,偽科學(xué)大行其道。
There's all kinds of myths and pseudoscience all over the place.
也許我錯(cuò)得離譜,也許他們確實(shí)懂這些,但我認(rèn)為我沒錯(cuò)。
Now, I might be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things, but I don't think I'm wrong.
你要知道我的優(yōu)點(diǎn)在于:我知道真正弄懂一個(gè)東西有多么困難。
You see, I have the advantage of having found out how hard it is to get to really know something.
你去驗(yàn)證實(shí)驗(yàn)時(shí)必須得多小心。
how careful you have to be about checking the experiments.
很輕易就會(huì)犯錯(cuò)誤并把自己弄糊涂。
how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself.
我知道弄懂一件事意味著什么。
I know what it means to know something.
所以我看到他們獲取信息的方式,我無(wú)法相信他們真的弄懂了。
and therefore I see how they get their information and I can't believe that they know it.
他們沒有做必要的工作,也沒做必要的檢驗(yàn),也沒有必要的嚴(yán)謹(jǐn)態(tài)度。
they haven‘t done the work necessary,, haven't done the care necessary.
我很懷疑,他們根本不懂,他們所說(shuō)的都是假的。
I have a great suspicion that they don't know, that this stuff is wrong.
他們只是在嚇唬民眾,我覺得是這樣。
and they're intimidating people. I think so.
我不太了解這個(gè)世界,但我確實(shí)是這么想的。
I don't know the world very well but that's what I think.