---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
As much as I may agree with you about the trustworthiness of "TM science," my science-writing gig the last couple of years has given me a similar distrust. Not of science per se, but certainly of "science journalism," how science is reported in the general press. I've been grinding my teeth all day about this subject, there is a vote in Parliament today about "3 parent babies" this is a misleading term invented and used solely by the press that distracts and confuses an important issue for any casual observers. The vote is about permitting a new type of IVF procedure that replaces the mitochondrial DNA in cells so that people don't have children with highly unpleasant and fatal genetic conditions - and those diseases are removed from that families gene line forever. If it gets approved the UK will be the first country to permit it. The way people talk about it anyone would think they were creating Frankenstein babies with three parents but the germ line DNA from mother and father remains remains untouched. Mitochondria simply provides the energy for the actual embryonic and replacement processes to take place. The media could easily explain it better, but as it is they stick with emotive language instead of clarifying it. You have to delve inside the broadsheets for that. I hope Parliament are being better informed than the average newspaper reader. Amongst the many debates, one objection you hear all the time is that scientists are playing god. I reckon that if god had done a decent job in the first place they wouldn't have to. But no one has used that line on the BBC news yet... It's caused me to realize that the speed with which one clicks on the science article headline is probably related to the article's veracity. The more that the headline is "click-bait" and you just couldn't wait to read it, the less likely it is that the "science" is true. :-) From: "anartaxius@... [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> While you can never fully trust science, you can pretty much distrust TMO promoted science as a matter of course. TMO promoted science is about 1% reliable based on various reviews of study size, controls, and experimental design. It's the dumbing down effect of religious memes that prevent researchers from thinking more clearly along scientific lines. It is difficult enough to do science properly without also having to get approval from people whose minds work along the lines of metaphysical fantasy. I don't have to do recreational drugs any more, as the doctors have been loading me up on additional pills and injections as I get older and more decrepit (the latter, according to TMO science is a sign my age is reversing) ---In [email protected], <turquoiseb@...> wrote : You can never fully trust science. Take this study, for example. If Fairfield, IA's claimed reputation as an early-to-bed, fairly drug-free, and fairly non-promiscuous small town is true, all that really means is that its population isn't very intelligent. :-) Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More Drugs, And Have More Sex http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ Research Shows Intelligent People Stay Up Late, Do More ... http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ By Steven Bancarz| What is the mark of an intelligent mind in our day and age? When we think of intelligent people, we may have been conditioned to envision them ... View on www.spiritscience... http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/research-shows-intelligent-people-stay-up-late-do-more-drugs-and-have-more-sex/ Preview by Yahoo
