--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Curtis, she's way too rational. Has she been validated
> through a peer reviewed journal? Wait, we're
> antis-science. See if babies cry in her presence or if
> milk curdles and then we'll know the real story behind
> this "Angela" person.
I like your tests better than mine Peter. I was going to challenge
her to join me in a Shotokan match.
>
> --- curtisdeltablues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > What she said. Thank you Angela.
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela
> > Mailander
> > <mailander111@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Off, get a grip. Curtis is not anti-science and
> > he wrote an
> > intelligent and well-written piece about that. He's
> > against
> > absolutist statements and ultimatums. Curtis has
> > said that science in
> > peer reviewed journals has to be read and assessed
> > intelligently.
> > It's not automatically the absolute truth just
> > because it's published
> > and even replicated in a peer reviewed journal.
> > Studies can be
> > replicated for a couple of decades, and then new
> > studies challenge the
> > information. This is a regular feature of the
> > progress of science.
> > Your absolutist stance is what folks are objecting
> > to because,
> > ironically, it's not really a scientific stance. I
> > had a colleague
> > once who did not understand what I was doing with a
> > certain research
> > project. Her response to her lack of understanding
> > was to state (in
> > writing) that I was either stupid or evil. There
> > were other options
> > of interpreting my research, as it turned out, and
> > she had to eat
> > humble pie. Your stance
> > > reminds me of her. No one disagrees with the
> > general truth that
> > science (specifically replicated studies in peer
> > reviewed journals) is
> > the best way we have of gaining reliable knowledge,
> > but it's not fool
> > proof. Science has only got induction and deduction
> > available for
> > gaining knowledge. Both are flawed. Induction is
> > flawed because no
> > one can ever consider ALL the variables of any
> > situation; deduction is
> > flawed because although the conclusion necessarily
> > follows if the
> > argument is set up properly, this says nothing about
> > the truth of the
> > premises.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----
> > > From: off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 1:16:19 PM
> > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Goodbye to the
> > anti-science crowd here
> > on FFL
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups.
> > com, "curtisdeltablues"
> > >
> > > <curtisdeltablues@ ...> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > > If you > don't state this above statement, then
> > you ARE stating that
> > >
> > > > you are > against science.
> > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > > Let's see "If you are not with us, you are
> > against us>>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > So you ARE stating that you are agianst science,
> > and yes you are
> > >
> > > correct, your kind of anti-science fundamentalist
> > has no place in the
> > >
> > > 21st century, you will grow old and be
> > forgot...but only by natural
> > >
> > > forces.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ONCE AGAIN Curtis uses the anti-science trait of
> > trying to SMEAR the
> > >
> > > person with a cheap anti-science jibe. Fox News
> > and the Neocons use
> > >
> > > this tactic all the time.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > OffWorld
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