So one night....science chatter started up in the room....we are all mostly Air Force folks working on a degree unrelated to science (yeah, kinda forced into the course, for degree purposes), and the topic of science constantly evolving or changing was coming up.
The professor (smart gal but strongly attached to digging up dinosaur crap)....more or less admitted that about 10-percent of science wasn't really fact-based or proven....it was just a best guess situation. She wasn't claiming it was hoax-stuff or BS....just that people looked at something and best guess #1.....was fact until proven wrong.
As she noted....some fields....it was worse than other fields. In the dinosaur business....she kinda hinted it might be closer 50-percent made-up.
So when Fauci stood up and said that the 6-foot rule for Covid might not be based on science...I pondered upon this.
Personally, I always questioned how this came up. Germans for example....said 1-meter (3.2 ft) was good enough. How you could easily this distance....well....just hold your arm straight out. But if you asked a German doctor where this idea came from....they would mostly grin.
Looking back four years ago....it's amazing what people accepted as fact, and how some people just refused to participate.
This brings me back to the professor and wondering....maybe I should have gone off into science, and gotten a PhD....then just made up a lot of BS facts. How much could I have gotten away with?
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