On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.com> wrote: > What I'm trying to say is that I believe you do not distinguish: > A) Science the method of inquiry > from > B) Science the human institution >
And I am saying is you do not understand that only one of the following is true: A) Science can sometimes make predictions better than the law of averages would allow. B) Science is the only way to make predictions better than the law of averages would allow. And it is physically impossible for me to personally perform every experiment that I'd like to, so I have no choice but to look to the human institution of science to help me out, but that would be useless to me unless I have reason to trust that the experiment was actually performed as described, and that's where the web of trust comes in that you get from journals like Nature and Science. When I read about some shit that somebody I've never heard of typed onto a obscure part of the internet that I've also never heard of about revolutionary experimental results that would change everything if true there is no web of trust and thus I am not in the least impressed because I know how to type too. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
