The public  from experience  assume an  inherent and healthy  mistrust of most everyone and everything. This is part of our genetic make up just as curiosity (science) is part of the genetic make up. One can't stop either. "But". Leaders of the  big three have learned how to control people's view of science by offering unscientific interpretation of its discoveries  banking on our inherent  mistrust factor to stop or slow selected projects in basic scientific research.  This control  we refer to as the  Galilean Syndrome in honor of Galileo Galilie one the more famous victims in science's by example of sciences biggest unsolved problem "TRUST".

Developing  solutions  to science biggest unsolved  problem the lack of TRUST.

 If we  are to have the best of our science in a timely fashion we, including scientist, need to have a much better understanding of  the public's need for trust in most everything they do especially in science. So starting with  how  the profession of science really works in addition  and how the Galilean Syndrome works is the first step in reducing our chances of  becoming  even more  victimized by the leaders of the big three's, well meant but perhaps misguided agenda's.

The following  paragraphs and the bulleted items  below are examples of  what we mean by these  italicized phrases. We believe that both of these issue are very important and very relevant to any discussion of how science works, how to support it, and  improve it.

Unfortunately many scientist believe that simply showing or demonstrating a scientific principal to the public  like e=mc². is sufficient to gain an informed public understanding. Certainly this is a start  but it is leaving out   the most  important details for the public understand of how science works Neither do these authors believe that just  teaching scientific method in its more primitive  form really satisfy the needs of gaining the public's trust.

Scientist certainly are very much aware that if the  data and work they use from other scientist in their work  must be right  or it will  have a serious  impact on their work because science discoveries work on the same principal  as building a house bridge etc. One starts with the foundation and works upwards through the structure piece by piece each depending on those that were laid down before it. This seem so obvious to those close to the work that it is taken for granted. However a number of studies show that about 50% of the people in the U.S. believe the scientist lie about their work. even though scientist have worked out a method that automatically  reduces error and fake data getting into the system to a minimum.

Example Question from a non scientist; How and why do scientists trust their fellow scientists data and their scientific work without  knowing anything about the other scientist's  honesty,  their personal habits,   someone they have never met  personally? We had a surprise from a  crude informal pole of  100 or so people  including 15 scientist/ engineers. Only 20 knew that there was a definite method in place for automatically finding and  eliminating bad data from the professional literature.

People have to learn the answer to  this and similar questions  to support the science  needed for a better healthier world. They  need  good solid easy to understand answers to these types of  questions. The people need to know the details of this trust machinery  because this may be the only thing about  science  they will really can understand. This is only one of a number of question that need answers.

Another link in the chain "Boring" is the word of death to the Media, the principal clearing house and  release for all of sciences' discoveries and issues  to the public. The Media cannot take  the financial risk of loosing  their viewers because if they did they would lose their advertisements " their salaries their accounts".  Boring is high on the list of thing not to do. This issue helps  the coloring of  the media's presentation of all science to the public. 

Straight from  the media.   Would you trust this mans  opinion in committing several billion dollars of your money toward building an  A bomb?

Media, the principal clearing house and  release for all of sciences' discoveries and issues  to the public.

The Galileo Syndromer proponent takes advantage of this neglect of "how science works" and uses it to place serious doubt about any scientific effort  they chose to stop or slow. They do it by recognizing  the public's inherent and healthy  mistrust of everyone and everything. They get juicy bits of gossip in from  media, a rich source of any gossip in many forms about the personal life of scientists and play it out to the public as a seed of mistrust.  Take Einstein for example, Its hard for us to understand his science to judge it. But many could  be  satisfy with a bit his personal life  to help them  decide about his professional life It happens more than it should.

To be fair about  the media's role in all of this. This picture of Einstein has been around allot even making money for T shirt manufactures who put it on the back and front of T shirts carried by students of science. The picture even  appeared  in a issue of Nature Magazine.   Funny Yes. but our leaders may want to  influence our opinion by using it as an example of Einstein's stupidity. Why not? The  science he generated is too  odd for the average person to judge his work but how about this picture it can help in an adverse way. Judge the man but trust his work. There is a big difference in the out come.

Einstein's  little equation  E=MC² was a break thru in basic science, It discovery could not have been stopped if he didn't do it someone else would have. (That's more of how science works) It's just three little letters and an equal sign on a piece of paper.  It "the truth" that was turned into nuclear bombs, power stations, nuclear medicines etc. etc. with  government's and  businesses help.

What about political  trust. Examples without comment. A single politician, a president of the U.S.A. decided without the public's knowledge to  turn the sense of that equation  into  atomic  bombs. Another single man again a president of the U.S.A.   without the public's knowledge decided to drop these bombs on cities of mostly private helpless citizens.  etc. etc. Right or wrong how can we tell for sure.  One more example. More people have died of cigarettes than  A bombs another thing science warned us about in the form of some data on a bit of paper. We give these  strong example of how politicians, business can work.

Introductory remarks about how science works

• Many of us do not generally appreciate that we pay for all of  scientific knowledge through our taxes and business overheads.

• but we don't own or control it.

• Scientific discoveries are in them selves benign they are " knowledge" recorded as text, diagrams, and mathematical formula. e=mc² , f=ma, p=nkt, s=d/t, e=ir,  H₂O, q=cv, etc.. on little pieces of paper.

• The distribution of funding and use of all scientific  discoveries is guided and determined  by business, political, and  religious  interest not by scientist. 

• It is  not possible to stop scientific investigations and discoveries by everyone and everywhere in this Global world, though many have tried, at best they can slow it.
   

• The practice of science (please don't forget the wow factor) means so very much to  each of us in our every day life. from our genes to the decay products of our remains. To most of us it is invisible, taken for granted,  celebrated for the increase of our 3 fold increase of life expectancy  and  scorned for its  honesty by politicians ,CEO's  and clerics. More simply put   There are not enough words powerful enough to express the importance of basic and applied scientific research on our every day lives. Remove  our science genes which are very few, and we would be  living very closely the family  life and geography of the chimpanzee. 

• Many of us believe we understand about science. We take it for granted. Everyone, every day, in government, business, and religion,  depend upon science's discoveries. How each uses these discoveries is an issue.

• Science⁰  has only one agenda, to discover  all of Nature's¹ Truths.². ----  It is  step by step building process.

• Scientist use the "what if tool"  with  instruments mathematically relating  measurements of time, length, mass,  to study Nature's Truths.

• Scientific discoveries are not taken as a fact  without the work being published in a form that others can produce the results and debate them.

• scientist are required  to analyze  their data  for accuracy and reliability and include this in their published report  with a discussion  of their conclusions, how it fits in with other relevant work.

• This checking procedure is done in at least two ways.  1st repeating the experiment by other investigators at other laboratories. and comparing the two data and conclusions. 2nd discoveries are automatically use to make more discoveries in the step by step process of finding out how all of nature works.

• Biases, errors, mistakes and lies cannot last long in science without being discovered using this simple method. If and when they accrue, which is rarely, they are a terrible waste in all ways to everyone.

Symptoms and Examples of Galilean Syndrome Galilean  

Galileo has become, through the last 400 years,  one of the most internationally famous victims of powerful anti-science movements.  We call these activities the Galilean Syndromes. It is one of the major distraction in basic scientific work.  
 

The symptoms below shows us  how this syndrome can attack science from leaders in the  highest political and global business level. It  often is carried out by the subordinate of the  institution  insulating  the top most leader from criticism.

1. Scientific findings  are restricted from easy access to the  tax paying public

2. Scientific findings  are alter by non scientist controlling the funding

3. The process its perpetrated  by non science leaders with almost unrestricted power

4. These leaders are generally  unskilled in science but have exceptional skills in leading people

5. These leaders have strong conviction that they should make these judgment

6. This exclusion process is done without  informed consent of the scientist and public who pay for and need the fruits of  the science.

7. It can happen to scientist in any branch of science.

The bottom line; today's Scientist's, sponsored with and without tax payers' money, are in  risk of jeopardizing their project  if these discoveries challenges  governments policy and if they share their discoveries with the public.

Yes most of us understand the value of basic scientific research.   Yes we are large in numbers, and want it supported, but we must be vigilant, contacting our congressman showing our support in numbers that at least match the dissenters.

Galileo's famous and dramatic telescope story is repeating itself today and we as well as the dissenters are the victims of this Pernicious Galilean Syndrome.

In the foto above is part of the team  Jim & Rhoda, best of  friends, husband and wife,  grandpa and grandma, physicist and chemist, hanging around  Galileo's neighborhood.  Here we are in front of  the extraordinary museum where Galileo Galilei's telescopes, his other famous instruments, and his index finger reside.  The museum lies on the banks of the beautiful Arno River in Florence.  Galileo  is  buried just down the street and  is still teaching science (and the danger of  Pernicious Galilean Syndrome) to the public visiting his stylish crypt in the  Santa Croce Church.  He and his telescopes are still in there fighting for science. Don't let him down. Join him in the fight

 

• Science is very important in our lives. --The wondrous  scientific discoveries about how nature works  can be complicated to understand in detail so we tend forfeit our option to those above us.

• The Important decision about the use of scientific discoveries that the public has paid  for is usually  made without us knowing it  and  without, serious consideration for our needs, by leaders that have considerably less scientific interest than their  political, business,  religious, connected agendas. 

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• Who can we trust to make that decision in choosing the products of science for us,? ; a decision so  important, that there are no words powerful enough to express it for our children, their children and our future?

• Politicians Many adults say that politicians  can't be trusted?

• Business CEO's who have to protect their business profits?

• Religious leaders, if so which leader, which religion?

• Media whose salaries are paid for by number of viewers they get to look at their ads.

• Scientist Its not unusual for some of us to hear that scientist are overly biased  in any number of ways in their work.The media often portrays them crazy dopy people stumbling around with there heads in the clouds, Making Monsters out of dead people, always  stuck in a box of their opinion, can't even put their shoes on the right feet? giving us explanations on how nature works, hiding behind 16 dimensional theories sprinkled with mistakes, lies and  errors in their work and Is it true when someone says that  scientist cant agree on anything?  and wasn't  Galileo Galilei really wrong about the earth going around the sun like some leaders said he was ? Big question where is the primary data for the characterizations of each of above disciplines (where is the scientific data)?

• Is there a cure the Galilean Syndrome?
   

• Science has discovered that our genetic makeup is only a few percent different than the chimpanzee. That difference is more than likely  where our science talents hang out.  We can't stop  genetic curiosity from unveiling the laws of nature anymore than we can stop breathing. Stopping Galileo's discoveries was impossible. Knowledge is a double edged sword, in the wrong hands it can generate more dangerous weapons than any  than we already have. Knowledge from the other edge of the sword has shown us how to guard against these evils. Since it is impossible to stop the flow of knowledge. The only hope is to educate ourselves and especially our leaders about how science works not about a discovery but how it works

• an  example of what  we mean about how science works

• Do scientist work alone or work in teams, constantly checking each others work?

• Do scientist have to rely all the accuracy of the discoveries of others to make their discoveries?

• If we knew which could be beginning of the cure for The Galilean Syndrome.