RE: Soil science produces better tasting wine
Firstly, hopefully soil science is finally catching up with proven soil improvement practices based on organic practices used for centuries.
But it's the same old story really. When some good and proven practices from the past, (here natural organic farming) that have been trampled on by science for years as being "unscientific", are finally seen to have scientific merit, then science claims the discovery and never acknowledges the years of their ignorance and persecution.
I am an engineer, so I am not against science, but I find most scientists are among the most closed minded of people, and often very far from their own ideal of keeping an open mind and looking at the evidence. Instead they often just stick to their current dogmatic theories and paradigms, that history shows all change over time anyway. Medicine is another area of such extreme arrogance.
I think it is about bloody time scientists get down off their arrogant high horses and start to show some respect for the wisdom traditional practices often incorporate.
Let's hope we get good at working WITH nature before nature works us out of the picture.
IH
