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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 6041439" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>By that logic, I may as well say "messageboard posters are dishonest". What you're saying has nothing to with science or scientists at all; it's just people. Why did you choose to attach it to statement about scientists in particular, as opposed to football players or chess players?</p><p> </p><p>I mean, it sounds like you have a beef with "scientists". That's three posts in a row where you've levelled different accusations at them. First it was their fault that educators and media portrayed hypothesis as fact; when I pointed out that it was unfair to blame them for that, you moved on to claiming they were all narrow-minded and opposed to new theories; and when I pointed out that they're not generally opposed to new theories, you say you didn't mean all of them, and switched to accusations of dishonesty. And before all that, you were attacking perfectly reasonable behaviour regarding hypothesis and interpretation of data because "it's possible" something could be wrong (which is obvious, but not a useful statement in any way). It really, really sounds like you hold some kind of grudge against the broader scientific community; I can't imagine what, though.</p><p></p><p>It's kinda odd. You've leapt into the thread blasting accusations at scientists around in this wild shotgun scatter pattern, with the accusations changing with each post. You've even implied that scientists are the ones responsible for slow progression of science, rather than the ones solely responsible for any progression at all. </p><p></p><p>If you think there's resistance to scientific progress out there - you're damn right there is! It's not the scientists though. There are plenty of other high profile obvious candidates for that particular problem.</p><p> </p><p>Yeah, sure, there are bad apples in every vocation. So what? That's not a useful commentary on science, scientists, or scientific practice in any meaningful sense. I mean if that's all that those posts were building too - yeah, sure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 6041439, member: 1"] By that logic, I may as well say "messageboard posters are dishonest". What you're saying has nothing to with science or scientists at all; it's just people. Why did you choose to attach it to statement about scientists in particular, as opposed to football players or chess players? I mean, it sounds like you have a beef with "scientists". That's three posts in a row where you've levelled different accusations at them. First it was their fault that educators and media portrayed hypothesis as fact; when I pointed out that it was unfair to blame them for that, you moved on to claiming they were all narrow-minded and opposed to new theories; and when I pointed out that they're not generally opposed to new theories, you say you didn't mean all of them, and switched to accusations of dishonesty. And before all that, you were attacking perfectly reasonable behaviour regarding hypothesis and interpretation of data because "it's possible" something could be wrong (which is obvious, but not a useful statement in any way). It really, really sounds like you hold some kind of grudge against the broader scientific community; I can't imagine what, though. It's kinda odd. You've leapt into the thread blasting accusations at scientists around in this wild shotgun scatter pattern, with the accusations changing with each post. You've even implied that scientists are the ones responsible for slow progression of science, rather than the ones solely responsible for any progression at all. If you think there's resistance to scientific progress out there - you're damn right there is! It's not the scientists though. There are plenty of other high profile obvious candidates for that particular problem. Yeah, sure, there are bad apples in every vocation. So what? That's not a useful commentary on science, scientists, or scientific practice in any meaningful sense. I mean if that's all that those posts were building too - yeah, sure. [/QUOTE]
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