My series on cheating is about very disturbing trends in science. These posts will draw a gloomy picture about modern science. And I am not talking from the outside like philosophers in so called 'science studies', who mostly would not look at a test tube if you hit them over the head with one.

9/11 implies some sort of terror for everybody, mostly in form of boundless hypocrisy. Was it unimaginable, unthinkable? I knew 9/11 would happen since I first saw the twin towers in 1995.

Bruno Latour (*1947) is a social constructionist or constructivist. If you know the difference, it is a sign indicating that you have wasted time studying useless stuff. Around 2004, he finally got partially enlightened and started to question his previous position on which he constructed (pun intended) his career. From ["Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern." Critical Inquiry 30,(2) 225-248 (2004)]:

"Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?"

He answers “yes” and goes home. No no, he writes many pages that are, compared to pre-2004-Latour, relatively insightful.

Sean Carroll writes that in GR “spacetime can give energy to matter, or absorb it from matter, so that the total energy simply isn’t conserved”.

He hopefully means “space” not “space-time”, because space-time includes time and has no further time to do anything, let alone absorb stuff. Let us nevertheless do a sympathetic reading and firstly show what he may mean with a simple example: