ralphpnj wrote: > Thanks Archimago for that very well written and highly informative link. > The sad part is that, at least here in the USA, there has been a > prolonged war on science and other evidenced based beliefs in favor of > pseudo-scientific and subjective belief systems. In this respect the > audiophile world is simply mirroring the world at large. > > The good part is that things like torrents and file transfer sites are > making it more difficult for vendors like HDTracks to make a profit from > their less than honest business practices. > > Now if only there was a way to reduce to the reduce the profits of other > business that profit from the propagation of anti-science. Gun > manufacturers and big oil being two of the worst offenders. And I > apologize for the political slant of this post but, at least to my eyes, > there seems to a direct connection between the outright rejection of the > scientific method and the inability to have more meaningful on so many > important issues. While audio may be one of the least important issues > effected by the anti-science bias, it is nonetheless suffering the same > fate.
The biggest issues are usually the healt scams , more treatments than you think are basically pseudo-science , it cost billions and yes people die from it to , by stop taking the real drug or unforeseen side effects in combination with the prescription drug . Homoeopathic and anthroposophy are among the most noteworthy here they been around a while and are somewhat accepted but read up on what they believe in it is really strange things, and if see something marketed as -wellness- I run ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97616 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
