Quesitoning everything is healthy and without it Science could have neither
sprouted nor prospered
Last few days we are witnessing a circus show with much dismay. With so
much consternation and a lot of fusses, almost everyone is
condemning a Nature's article about the possibility of doping in an
out of norm performance of a female athlete. How dare it question an
outlier? Among them are some well known Chinese scientists trained in
the West. These scientists seem have forgotten that Science started
with Socrates who questioned everything and searched downwards for
answers through a never-ending question-answer-question
process. Surely Socrates become a gadfly to the once powerful Athens
and was murdered because he asked too many questions. However, with
Socrates being silenced in such a manner came the decay of Athens
empire. Some Chinese used to like to ask questions. However, after
the warring period, the people who ask questions have been silenced or
brutally murdered. Furthermore, almost everything has been done behind
the door in order to deny a few bold questioners any chances to even
ask a question. Consequently, Science could NOT have started in China.
Notknowing how to do Science (discovery) and how to invent and innovation in
technology, Chinabecomes no more powerful and Chinese become second class
citizens of this planet and many small countries could conquer and enslaved
her with much easy since then. Sadly that this circus show tells us once
again that This lesson seems have never been learned and Science still has a
treacherous road to travel in China because the lack of a fertile soil for
it to grow.