Per Edman wrote:
2010/1/25 Michael <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
This assumption is increasingly questioned by multiple,
independent lines of evidence.
Such as?
If 15,000 people believe something based on a single assumption,
and that assumption is proven wrong by a single dissenter, the
"consensus" belief is refuted.
Yes, falsification.
"Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism)
require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the
creed of millions. Thus the fear and the hate; thus the torture
chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the
psychiatric ward." Ed Abbey
I would have preferred a scientific, sourced example rather than
thinly-veiled *ALARMISM* about labor camps and torture chambers.
Fortunately, one's personal preferences do not apply here.
Hayduke
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