Science Needs a Reality Check: 04-05-2024

1. The scientific faith in measurement is superstitious.
2. Without measurement, there is no science, and without understanding measurement, there is no good science.
3. Scientific measurements are measurements of measurements, not the measured when the subject is as small as or smaller than the instrument of measurement.
4. Science measures the small to the point that the measurement is larger than the thing measured, resulting in the measurements saying more about themselves than what they propose to measure.
5. Science measures the small with measurements larger than the small that overwhelm the small and can only provide false conclusions about the small if the measurements are not seen as false and problematic.