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Post Subject: Some Observations about Science and BassPosted by Vasyachkin on: 7/18/2010

I was recently reading a book called "The Cyclist's Training Bible" by Joe Friel. The author immediately surprised me by not being an idiot. Anyway one of the things he said is that the SCIENCE of training / exercise physiology is USUALLY ONE STEP BEHIND top athletes. That it isn't the top Athletes that use science to train better but it is the SCIENCE that looks at top athletes and tries to understand how they do it. or should i say REAL science SHOULD.

I thought this was a profound observation that can be applied to many fields of human endeavor. I think in our modern society as a whole we are suffering from what i could only call "science worshipping" where scientific theory is somehow put ahead of actual reality.

For example not to get too political we have had dietary recommendations based on "scientific studies" upon following which virtually ALL of the diseases EXPLODED especially the ones that these guidelines were targeting. The fact that the results were the opposite of what they were supposed to be however didn't stop anybody from following those guidelines for ABOUT 40 YEARS because they guidelines were "scientific" and it didn't matter that it was absolutely obvious that they were wrong.

I have noticed something similar happening in Audio with respect to frequency response. People keep following the "flat = perfect" dogma despite the fact that augmented bass is ALMOST UNIVERSALLY preferred by listeners. Somehow people feel obligated to follow "science" and ignore reality.

IN FACT i have analyzed the mentality of rodents known as scientists and realized that they associate STRAIGHT with CORRECT in ALL problems. To them STRAIGHT = CORRECT is an axiom and requires no proof.

For example if you're a runner they say you must make contact with ground with your foot directly under your body ( STRAIGHT ). I just watched video analysis of a runner who kept setting world records for 13 years straight, and the scientist doing the analysis lamented that the runner doesn't quite reach the STRAIGHT geometry. well i have news for that IDIOT - it would be PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE for him to do this without eventually planting his face in the pavement - but this is too technical for *scientists* to understand - they just need everything STRAIGHT.

As another example i was watching a video analysis of a Cycling Athlete's pedal stroke and AGAIN the "fitting expert" complained that the measured angle between the knee and the pedal was less than straight, which to him ( and according to official fitting guidelines ) indicated "wrong" seat position.
So this is just a heads up, lest we forget that scientists are actually IDIOTS.

When i was in college i thought scientists were smart. Now i know that the only reason we have that perception is because SMART scientists ( Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Maxwell, Faraday etc ) are the only ones we are TAUGHT ABOUT in school. Those are literally one in a MILLION. Most scientists are so dumb they make me want to stab myself with an ice pick AND on top of this they know NOTHING about what SCIENCE actually was SUPPOSED TO BE.

REAL science was supposed to explain reality, but the "science" we have today simply comes up with "guidelines" like "eat low fat" or "must be straight" or "must be vertical" or "must be flat" which represent not any sort of legitimate insight but are just a reflection of FLATNESS of the MINDS of the ones writing these recommendations.

Basically what i was trying to say is i like a lot of BASS Smile

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