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| Re: Scientific fact > hysteria said by jester121 :Aren't we told over and over that climate change is a fact, because "all the world's top scientists believe it"? Heh... wasn't it only 500 years ago that all of the world's top scientists were telling us that the world was flat too?  -- Only SHATNER is Kirk. | |
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| Re: Scientific fact > hysteria Sorry, but 500 years ago, there was nobody that could even remotely be considered a "scientist" by modern standards. Those who tried were typically threatened with a nice dry stack of kindling until they "remembered" that the sun orbited the Earth and witches floated because they were made of wood. -- Burrow owl...burrow owl... | |
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| Re: Scientific fact > hysteria said by CrazyFingers :Sorry, but 500 years ago, there was nobody that could even remotely be considered a "scientist" by modern standards. And how can you say that someone who is a scientist today by modern standards will be looked upon as such 500 years from now? -- Only SHATNER is Kirk. | |
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join:2003-10-01 Columbia, MO | Re: Scientific fact > hysteria Now now pnh106, we both know that is an absurd statement.
We'll all be dead in 500 years after the arctic icecaps melt and the polar bears descend on us in a feeding frenzy. -- Burrow owl...burrow owl... | |
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| Re: Scientific fact > hysteria said by CrazyFingers :Now now pnh106 (sic), we both know that is an absurd statement. Why? You just said the same thing about the "scientists" of old. I am extending your statement to the scientists of new. Science certainly isn't dead as an academic discipline, and for us to assume that we "know everything" is silly and dangerous. To quote one such scientist, "we do not know, what we don't know."
My main problem with simply "going with the consensus" on any subject is that it discourages academic review. It is just as bad as answering every scientific question with the response "God did it." Without review and challenging of accepted scientific principles, how will we know that they are valid or not? -- Only SHATNER is Kirk. | |
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join:2003-10-01 Columbia, MO | Re: Scientific fact > hysteria *sigh*...
I had hoped that the sarcasm in the second sentence would have made the same in the first sentence obvious. I over-estimated you. I'm sorry, I promise it won't happen again. -- Burrow owl...burrow owl... | |
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| Re: Scientific fact > hysteria said by CrazyFingers :I over-estimated you. You misunderestimated me  -- Only SHATNER is Kirk. | |
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join:2003-10-01 Columbia, MO | Re: Scientific fact > hysteria Well, as long as you don't take the nukular option... -- Burrow owl...burrow owl... | |
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