QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING ABOUT SCIENCE:  

Albert Einstein said; “The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.”  If speculative conclusions are not questioned, incorrect conclusions can become false dogma.  We should not take scientific interpretations as unquestionable truth.

We should ask what truths can science really give us?

Einstein also said; “Scientific truth is nothing but conditional truth."  Clearly Einstein did not in fact believe that science gives unquestionable truth (outside of actual laboratory measurements not open to interpretation.)  Truth beyond the direct laboratory facts is always conditional on some assumption and therefore questionable to some degree, and that is especially true of interpretations (meaning) of data.   That which cannot be proven directly in a laboratory is open to legitimately being questioned.

We should ask science; who is questioning laboratory results interpretation besides those with career and monetary concerns in the answers?

Most science activity operates using some assumptions similar to mathematical axioms and assuming certain paradigms as well.  We need to determine and question those assumptions and paradigms.  The answers science gives (if beyond laboratory verification) now may be wrong.  The farther science gets from the laboratory, the more that area is open to valid questions.

We should ask; who is questioning the assumptions hidden in supposed scientific pronouncements besides those with career and monetary concerns in the answers?

We should ask; who is questioning statements by scientists which go far beyond the actual science and make atheistic claims?  Suppose, for example, we ask science if their is any form of a field (somewhat analogous to an electric field) which directs life and/or consciousness.  The scientific answer today would be that science knows of no such field.   Science would, however, have given a similar answer about radio waves prior to their discovery.  We would have been told before the discovery of radio wave that there is no sort of field which could transmit sound or pictures.   Science would have been wrong.  Albert Einstein said “It is possible that there exist emanations that are still unknown to us.  Do you remember how electrical currents and “unseen waves” were laughed at?”  (He was referring to radio waves!)

We should ask; who is to stand up and say that other emanations may exist and we should look for them?   

We now listen to and watch what used to be “laughed at” “unseen waves”.  Such  radio waves have always been around, of course, and are the source of radio and television and we even cook food with them in microwave ovens.  As with radio waves, if science is asked a question about which it does not yet have knowledge, scientists will in reality, not be able to give an answer known to be certainly truthful. What will the impact be of the prolonged use (decades) of cellular phones by our youth from the intense radio waves being generated near the developing brains?  The cellular phone transmission waves are very much like microwave oven waves.  Science has produced these devices without the answers to such concerns.

Since science does not provide absolute truth or absolute answers, we cannot know absolutely the dangers or what science is doing today in some areas or what will be discovered tomorrow and how it might affect society.    When one can make probability calculations which show the science paradigm to be improbable as a correct model, we should question that "science" deeply in detail.  Such is the case with evolution sciences for example.

Who is questioning and looking for the dangers of science activities who does not have a career or monetary interest dependent on the answers?

There is a need to take actions in advance of dangerous research by support of oversight citizen groups.  As citizens, we need to  get in the habit of monitoring science news (the internet is a great tool for that) and when we find an area of concern, we need to  inform those who have some authority over science (hopefully those with no monetary interest in that science.) 

There are those who are already seeing and organizing against the dangers of questionable "science".  The following links give some ideas as to what is being done and what can be done;

Read the second paragraph at this site written by John Glen the astronaut.

Europe seems ahead of the U.S. in efforts to control science.

Some good ideas from Europe

Some ideas for parents.

If you don't think science is political, go to this site.  Citizens must inform politicians to counter excess pressure from scientists for money.