Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Adjustments! When power adjusts the scientific results

Two Roman rulers, Julius and Augustus permanently got themselves into the western Calendar. I don’t know how many months we would have if other Roman rulers were as powerful of these two!? To accommodate them, there were some calendrical adjustments made. Sept means 7 and Dec means 10 but their months are shifted. August month is so important that an extra day needed to be taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was reduced to 28 days.

I see same pattern happening now in many areas where people with power easily override the outcome of a scientific result. The "I don’t like that number" syndrome.