Part of the reason for our current troubles is because the practice of what is called science has changed considerably, and not for the better, since the late 1800s and early 1900s. It’s now filled with the sober, well-prepared ones. It was, once, the practice of what is more accurately natural philosophy. These were people, male and female, of all nationalities, degreed and nondegreed, who were interested in understanding the world in which they lived.
