ISU offers a multitude of options when it comes to choosing a path of study. Whether one aspires to be a pilot, an actor, a marketing executive or a gym teacher, your trade can be learned here. However, one option not found described between the pages of the course catalog is that of paranormal studies. Science doesn't advance as efficiently as it could when assumptions are substituted for unbiased investigation, or when minds are unjustifiably closed.To start, a review of some examples from the past.First of all and perhaps most relevant to this particular continent - Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. He ignored the prevailing flat-Earth consensus, and as a result you are reading the Indiana Statesman instead of, say, the Luxembourgian Statesman.Nicolaus Copernicus is another now-immortalized visionary. The Aristotelian view of the universe was the accepted celestial dogma of his time, and it held that the Earth was the stationary center of universe and that the other bodies revolved around it. Copernicus, though, postulated a universe in which the Earth and the other planets revolved around the fixed point of the Sun. Such ideas were revolutionary in the face of centuries of adherence to a geocentric model; an adherence based more on the reputation of Aristotle and the approval of the church than on sound astronomical observation and calculation.
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