Cure for CANCER in Blushwood Tree found in Australia

[Dulfite]

Torillian said:

Dulfite said:

My point is that it will be a never ending "evolving" process, if you will, and yet we have people claiming *insert one of the hundreds/thousands of "scientific breakthroughts" discovered every year here* that whatever discovery is made is absolute and revolutionary, only to claim it was misguided years later. If a company kept coming out with a new phone every year, claiming it will do so and so features and it never lived up the expectation, would you keep buying products from them or start to put your trust in another company?

Well I think this misconception that "science" is going against its own word every month is due to how the media reports scientific discoveries.  When you read the actual article most of these news stories are based on they are much more humble and try to be as conservative as possible with what their results could mean.  Go read the results and discussion section of the science articles these news stories are based on and you'll see what I mean.  

My argument is more against the people claiming there are "breakthroughs" (which, I agree, is the media) than science or scientists itself. If someone figures something out, realizing it may not ultimately be true, but still finds it interesting to share with the world, then fine that is ok and sometimes can be great. But the moment I read things about "Bob" finding out some piece of rock can do some miraculous thing, I get suspicious.