Science as a word in its origins just meant ‘knowledge’ and ‘to know’ and this included the search for esoteric woo woo such as that left behind by the Egyptians

>>16901903
Before science became a business, you had to pretty retarded to dedicate your life to it. I mean you still are today, if you are intelligent enough for STEM you're intelligent enough to have a better career somewhere else, but still.

>>16901903
That wouldn't be weird back then. Everyone was superstitious and engaged in all sorts of magical thinking. What would be weird is if you weren't like that.

>>16901903
He even looks like a neckbeard. Only without the neckbeard.

>>16901907
Fpbp

People forget how simple and pure and prone to magical tier thinking science is

>>16901903
>He believed he could produce a slave creation, or a familiar of sorts—the Homunculus—by ejaculating into a chicken egg, or worse.
Ok so it didn't work
It was worth a try

>>16901903
Back then the elite intellectuals were about as knowledgeable and smart as the average person today. That's why everyone on 4chan and twatter has retarded schizotheories as him. Give it another 500 years and everyone will sound like post-docs do today.

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>>16901903
They were posers, just like scientists today, except back then posing meant pretending to have interesting and esoteric knowledge of forbidden things while today it means peddling the Current Thing harder than anyone else.

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>>16901903
Basically what >>16901914 has mentioned

"Science" as this separate field of study we understand today didn't exist prior to the Enlightenment. Most "scientists" before this time were big on what we consider pseudoscience/nonsense like theology, astrology, alchemy, and other forms of mysticism. Even Newton, one of the smartest men to ever live, spent far more time trying to create the Philosopher’s Stone and figure out cryptic messages from the Bible, than studying mathematics and the laws of the universe.
>>16901940
Knowledge ≠ Intelligence

The average 15 year old knows more about medicine, geology, anthropology, astronomy, and any basic science today, than what historical intellectuals like Newton or Leibniz ever knew. But that's all accumulated knowledge. If they had to use raw brain power, than Newton and Leibniz would win. These two created Calculus, computing devices, and in Leibniz case, he came up with the idea of binary code and thinking machines centuries before electrical power existed.

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The scientific method and its consequences...

>>16901903
you need to be a whacko to spin some wires around a magnet and expect anything to happen

>>16901903
Some people cum in the same coconut till it grows Maggots. Saw that on Whang. It's real

>>16902149
Ewwww. Video?

>>16902080
If this ever happens to me and I have to deal with germans doing the old "actually it was GERMANY" I will get a COURT ORDER to stop your bullshitting entirely.

>>16901903
There wasn't a body that told them they couldn't. In other words, he was more free to experiment and do science in his own ways. Today there's peer review which you have to suck off their tranny cocks to get accepted as a "scientist". If you do you own research, you're considered a racist bigot.

>>16902692
>he was more free to experiment and do science in his own ways
Sure, but do you figure he actually sealed the sperm of a man in a sealed cucurbit for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse's womb until it came to life and moved itself?

>>16902709
Only way to find out is to replicate the study

>>16902723
But how can you replicate the study if you don't even know what counts as a highest degree of putrefaction? This is exactly why there is a Replication Crisis.

>>16902736
Thats why you replicate the study to the best of your ability. If you have a bone of scientist in you, you'll get this right. If you're a cargo cultist peer review guy, nothing can be done in anyway form or shape in any capacity by anyone with anything for any reason.

Excuses do not make science

>>16902740
What stops Paracelsus from claiming my jizz just wasn't putrefied enough for the horse womb to do its magic?

Safe science is stifling science.
True science is mad science.

>>16903370
You’re not even wrong. The scientific community has become so infested with pussies it has become one big giant woman.

Newton quite seriously believed you could transmute elements to gold and that the elixir of life was a real thing.

imagine the progress if we'd traded the womb for a jar and just fermented our way to the moon, we were robbed

>>16905344
This sounds like something from some Japanese video game