Quote of the Moment: I am Not Scientific - Shelton

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I am not Scientific

 

Sept 1946

Hygienic Review

Herbert Shelton

 

When " science " divorces herself from her capitalistic masters and ceases to

play the part of bawd, when she discards her stultifying axiom that only

conventions are acceptable as data, when she seeks for truth without fear or

favor, when she discards her burden of prejudices and throws off her

prepossessions, when she empties her inflated body of its gaseous vanity and

odoriferous pride, when she becomes willing to learn of all who have

knowledge, when she places more stock in fact and principle than she does in

captivating speculations garbed in a flowery array of technical gibberish,

and neither last nor least, when she unburdens herself of accumulated load

of methodological puerilities, then, and not until then , will she be able

to say to me, you are scientifically and demonstrably wrong.

 

I am far from being infallible. I will learn more as I go along. But as

between my world and that of the " science of medicine " and the " science of

dietetics " I'll await the verdict of time with calmness and without fear, I

am not " scientific " and in the present state of " science " I would be a fool

if I were. I'd rather be right than to be " scientific " .