Wednesday, November 23, 2005
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A contrarian is someone who poses as a skeptic, refusing to accept consensus conclusions in science on the ground that there is still some uncertainty.
Quote:"That doesn’t mean that scientific consensus is right in every instance. There are famous examples, in fact, of when it was proved wrong: Galileo comes to mind, as does a lowly patent clerk named Einstein. In the vast majority of modern cases, however, scientific consensus can be expected to hold up under scrutiny precisely because it was reached through a lengthy and rigorous process of professional skepticism and criticism."
4 Don't Just Sit There Say Sumthin !:
35 seconds :-)
oh my. and who are you, my new-found friend?
thanks for the advice, i do appreciate it. it's moot, but it was a nice thing to say.
for the record, though, you still haven't answered my question.
(see first comment)
interesting...
i think you either give yourself too much or too little credit, but i guess that's not up to me.
please to meet your aquaintence and all of that.
*smile*
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