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<blockquote data-quote="Hex08" data-source="post: 8921122" data-attributes="member: 7029595"><p>This isn't meant to be offensive or condescending, but you are not understanding how the sciences work. Scientists, archaeologists included, are always examining and testing different hypotheses but they won't examine every alternate one because it doesn't make sense to do so if the source is known to unreliable (either the person or the idea presented). These people are experts in their field and have spent more years becoming educated on the topic than a non-professional so they can check others work and make detailed analysis of it. The sciences have peer review processes in place where work is checked by other professionals and either verified or shown to be incorrect. If it is verified often enough it enters the mainstream of scientific knowledge, if it is shown to be flawed it is discarded. This process exists for a good reason; people are flawed and will make mistakes or be incorrect so others check their work to help validate it. The more times it is validated the more likely it is to be true. Non-professional people simply don't have the deep educational background to realize where they may be making errors or realize they are re-treading old ground that was long ago shown to be wrong.</p><p></p><p>So yes, there are gate keepers to the sciences and there should be. It helps keep the well-intentioned but uninformed out of the process. Just look at the history of perpetual motion machines and cold fusion, the proponents of those technologies aren't being excluded because of some concerted effort to exclude them, it's because the experts have determined time and time again that they don't work.</p><p></p><p>And yes, the peer review process isn't perfect and that is accepted by the community and there are attempts being made to fix some of its issues but just because there are problems doesn't mean it is fundamentally flawed and wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hex08, post: 8921122, member: 7029595"] This isn't meant to be offensive or condescending, but you are not understanding how the sciences work. Scientists, archaeologists included, are always examining and testing different hypotheses but they won't examine every alternate one because it doesn't make sense to do so if the source is known to unreliable (either the person or the idea presented). These people are experts in their field and have spent more years becoming educated on the topic than a non-professional so they can check others work and make detailed analysis of it. The sciences have peer review processes in place where work is checked by other professionals and either verified or shown to be incorrect. If it is verified often enough it enters the mainstream of scientific knowledge, if it is shown to be flawed it is discarded. This process exists for a good reason; people are flawed and will make mistakes or be incorrect so others check their work to help validate it. The more times it is validated the more likely it is to be true. Non-professional people simply don't have the deep educational background to realize where they may be making errors or realize they are re-treading old ground that was long ago shown to be wrong. So yes, there are gate keepers to the sciences and there should be. It helps keep the well-intentioned but uninformed out of the process. Just look at the history of perpetual motion machines and cold fusion, the proponents of those technologies aren't being excluded because of some concerted effort to exclude them, it's because the experts have determined time and time again that they don't work. And yes, the peer review process isn't perfect and that is accepted by the community and there are attempts being made to fix some of its issues but just because there are problems doesn't mean it is fundamentally flawed and wrong. [/QUOTE]
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