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Originally posted by Duke2.6
That's a good example. Medicine is primarily an empirical science, and the profession believed for so long that ulcers were caused by stomach acid caused by stress - whatever- that they REFUSED to believe that ulcers could be caused by bacteria even when confronted by evidence derived through rigorous experimentation. That said your conclusion that coolant temperature has a major effect on NOx is not based on rigorous experimentation.
Physics, chemistry, and engineering are sciences. I'm not so sure about medicine.
Considering that this revelation about the cause of ulcers only happened only about 20 years ago, I wonder how far we have come in medicine since the middle ages, and most advances in medicine - like artificial organ, limbs, and arthroscopic surgery are due primarily to the efforts or engineers, not physicians.
Duke
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Agreed that engineering is a science which may explain why the Mulholland Dam failed and killed hundreds of people, and he was so distraught that he commited suicide. How about the scientifically built bridge in the Pacific North West that just went away. So much for science. You are trying to throw crap in the game by talking about the middle ages. As a matter of fact the middle ages occured after the crusades. The crusaders went to the holy land to teach those arabs a thing or two. What in fact really happened was that they brought back new medicines and new diets that were very beneficial to Europe.
In my opinion, if Einstein believed in scientific protocol. we'd still be using smokeless powder invented in 1894. Whether that is good or bad has nothing to do with the point.
Peter