We are so obsessed with Darwin that we forgot Mendeleev
Friday, March 13, 2009
More than 33,00 blog articles appeared in last one month related to Charles Darwin, as everyone is celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species. People are really crazy or too much obsessed with the Darwin and his evolution. I don't know much about Darwin's life and his contribution to science, and if he discovered something really scientific, or it was just intellectual exercise by scientific community to establish him as biggest genius of all the time. I was never a Darwin fanatic, but I do know that there was a genius chemist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, creator of the periodic table of elements. First version of Mendeleev's periodic table was published on 17 February 1869, and this year it was 140th anniversary of publication, around same time when we all were busy in celebrating Charles Darwin bicentenary. Why scientific community is so irrational? Why we think that On the Origin of Species is so much better than periodic table of elements? It may be real shame for so called scientific oxymorons, but there is no much appreciation for real science these days. Well I think that Popular science is materialistic in true sense, or in other words science which can be monetize is popular, the one we see at scienceblogs selling cups to t-shirts.






