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[Paul Farquhar]

My deepest apologies. I forgot we live in an era where one only needs to cite a famous person to legitimize a pseudoscience, which reduces the complexity of the human experience to twelve signs and a movement of planets chart that does not correspond to real planetary movement.

The tendacy to put faith in persons rather than evidence has always held science back. Faith in Aristotle, faith in Ptolemy, faith in Newton. And the irony is, these persons would be the first to say "don't look at me, look at the evidence".

Well maybe not Newton (the famous alchemist), whose ego was enormous.

 

[Staffan]

The tendacy to put faith in persons rather than evidence has always held science back. Faith in Aristotle, faith in Ptolemy, faith in Newton. And the irony is, these persons would be the first to say "don't look at me, look at the evidence".

Well maybe not Newton (the famous alchemist), whose ego was enormous.

Well, he did discover mavity, after all.

 

[Parmandur]

The tendacy to put faith in persons rather than evidence has always held science back. Faith in Aristotle, faith in Ptolemy, faith in Newton. And the irony is, these persons would be the first to say "don't look at me, look at the evidence".

Well maybe not Newton (the famous alchemist), whose ego was enormous.

Thing is, putting faith in other people is the way the human brain is wired: social cooperation by trusting one another for information we would otherwise not have access to.

Imnot a scientist, so I largely have to take scientists who are plugged into the evidence based science on faith.