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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: TimberwoofTimberwoof Date: Aug 13, 2008 16:36
In article bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
"Painius" maol.com> wrote:
> "Timberwoof" inferNOnoSPAMsoft.com> wrote...
> in message
> news:timberwoof.spam-B8D7B3.09500613082008@nnrp-virt.nntp.sonic.net...>> In article
>> w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>,
>> PD gmail.com> wrote:>>> On Aug 12, 12:41 pm, "Painius" maol.com> wrote:>>>>> ...to those who are
>>>>> asking a *question*. However, many of the people are putting forward
>>>>> claims of well-developed ideas that aren't well-developed at all, and
>>>>> they've been doing that for a long time, and they have no intention
>>>>> of
>>>>> acknowledging what is necessary to develop it properly. These people
>>>>> are indeed worthy of very harsh criticism. They are a poison to
>>>>> science.
>>>>
>>>> Aren't you being just a little overdramatic? A dignified
>>>> form of behavior ought to be called for even under the
>>>> most trying of circumstances. Anything else belittles
>>>> and bespittles the one thing we have going for us...
>>>>
>>>> science
>>>
>>> I don't agree, entirely. It is entirely appropriate for the sake of
>>> other newbies and lurkers to have the line drawn very clearly between
>>> science and pseudoscience.
>>
>> Seconded. The pseudoscience should be pointed out and the reasons that
>> it is pseudoscience should be given ... politely. There's an awful lot
>> of amateur theorizing going on on this newsgroup. For example, Brad
>> Guth's Velikovskian fairy tales about the moon. There's an opportunity
>> to show how planetary orbits really work... Brad won't learn, but others
>> might.
>
> Excellent, and i agree wholeheartedly with you, TW.
> You have just come up with the justification for Brad's
> existence. He and others like him serve a purpose
> here, if only to stimulate us to walk carefully upon the
> razor sharp cutting edge of astronomy.
The only problem with him and others is that they keep making the same
stupid (sorry, I should use a more polite word. Hm. Let me think. Uh.
Wait! I know! "Stupid" That's polite.) stories about stuff with zero
basis in reality. Meanwhile our little friend Sunny asks questions like
an eight-year-old who hasn't discovered the Encyclopedia Britannica yet.
So the newsgroup gets flooded with crap and trivia. The "opportunity" is
an attempt to make lemonade out of dishwater. Even after adding sugar
and lemon juice, it's still soapy and dirty.
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