The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
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The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
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#2"There is a veritable truckload of bullshit in science."
Amen to that. :)
I'm a bit tired of seeing critics of various hypotheses being dismissed out of hand simply "Because Science".
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#3"There is a veritable truckload of bullshit in science." Amen to that. :) I'm a bit tired of seeing critics of various hypotheses being dismissed out of hand simply "Because Science".
Yes but in fairness there is a fair amount of BS in any area of human endeavor. There are BS movies, BS politicians, BS music, BS programming languages; it's certainly not unique to science.
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#4"There is a veritable truckload of bullshit in science." Amen to that. :) I'm a bit tired of seeing critics of various hypotheses being dismissed out of hand simply "Because Science".
Yes but in fairness there is a fair amount of BS in any area of human endeavor. There are BS movies, BS politicians, BS music, BS programming languages; it's certainly not unique to science.
But isn't science supposed to be, by definition, the anti-bullshit?
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes but in fairness there is a fair amount of BS in any area of human endeavor. There are BS movies, BS politicians, BS music, BS programming languages; it's certainly not unique to science.
But isn't science supposed to be, by definition, the anti-bullshit?
science is supposed to be self-correcting.
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#6Instead of a sisyphean refutation of every attack, wouldn't a better strategy be to research and prove the attacker's conflict of interests (and thus discredit them)?
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#7"There is a veritable truckload of bullshit in science." Amen to that. :) I'm a bit tired of seeing critics of various hypotheses being dismissed out of hand simply "Because Science".
Many hypotheses can be dismissed because they violate some fundamental principals.
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#8Instead of a sisyphean refutation of every attack, wouldn't a better strategy be to research and prove the attacker's conflict of interests (and thus discredit them)?
If your desired outcome is to merely discredit your opponent and win the argument, maybe. If you are in pursuit of truth, no.
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#9/offtopic
That 2.8mb .jpg is Bullshit
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#10Instead of a sisyphean refutation of every attack, wouldn't a better strategy be to research and prove the attacker's conflict of interests (and thus discredit them)?
What conflict of interest does a Young Earth Creationist have? Not money. If you say religious belief, you'd be right, but it's not a terribly effective criticism because the majority of U.S. scientists are religious, too.