\n\n\u00e2\u0080\u009cScience is the belief in the ignorance of experts\u00e2\u0080\u009d is how the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman defined science in his article \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhat is Science?\u00e2\u0080\u009d Feynman emphasized this definition by repeating it in a stand-alone sentence in extra large typeface in his article. (Feynman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s essay is available online, but behind a subscription wall: The Physics Teacher (1969) volume 7, starting page 313.)
\nImmediately after his definition of science, Feynman wrote: \u00e2\u0080\u009cWhen someone says, \u00e2\u0080\u0098Science teaches such and such,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t teach anything; experience teaches it. If they say to you, \u00e2\u0080\u0098Science has shown such and such,\u00e2\u0080\u0099 you should ask, \u00e2\u0080\u0098How does science show it? How did the scientists find out? How? What? Where?\u00e2\u0080\u0099 It should not be \u00e2\u0080\u0098science has shown.\u00e2\u0080\u0099 And you have as much right as anyone else, upon hearing about the experiments (but be patient and listen to all the evidence) to judge whether a sensible conclusion has been arrived at.\u00e2\u0080\u009d
\nAnd I say, Amen. Notice that \u00e2\u0080\u009cyou\u00e2\u0080\u009d is the average person. You have the right to hear the evidence, and you have the right to judge whether the evidence supports the conclusion. We now use the phrase \u00e2\u0080\u009cscientific consensus,\u00e2\u0080\u009d or \u00e2\u0080\u009cpeer review,\u00e2\u0080\u009d rather than \u00e2\u0080\u009cscience has shown.\u00e2\u0080\u009d By whatever name, the idea is balderdash. Feynman was absolutely correct.
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All emphasis mine. Via Pajamas Media \u00c2\u00bb The Difference between \u00e2\u0080\u0098True Science\u00e2\u0080\u0099 and \u00e2\u0080\u0098Cargo-Cult Science\u00e2\u0080\u0099.
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