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Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:25 PM
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Bollocks from the BBC
Jed sez:
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> Perhaps they could put a link on the page: "Click to
> administer a painful shock to the USPS webmaster." Chances are it
> wouldn't work,
Jed sez:
...
Perhaps they could put a link on the page: "Click to
administer a painful shock to the USPS webmaster." Chances are it
wouldn't work, given their inability to implement web page features,
but it might give the reader a moment of psychological satisfaction.
- Jed
I believe the
I wrote:
Many of the key experiments in high-energy physics are so difficult
to reproduce, nobody even tries. After one successful experiment
they declare victory. Examples include the top quark, the PPPL
tokamak, and of course, fission and fusion bombs.
The North Koreans recently demonstrat
leaking pen wrote:
That an experiment is reproducible is the cornerstone of the
scientific method. What, precisely, is your issue with the statement?
*Making* an experiment *more* reproducible is one important aspect of
the scientific method, but it not the be-all, end-all goal. Many
import
Considerable confusion seems to exist around the concept of
reproducibility. A phenomenon must be easily reproduced in order to be
studied by science in general. Difficult to reproduce phenomenon are
frequently studied by "experts" in an effort to discover the variables
preventing easy reproduc
That's an old article, by the way. There is no point to responding. I
found it noteworthy because it is such a high-purity distillation of
nonsense. A sort of all-in-one expression of pathological skepticism.
- Jed
That an experiment is reproducible is the cornerstone of the
scientific method. What, precisely, is your issue with the statement?
As has been stated before, that is the difference between scientist
and inventor. For an inventor, getting it to work now and again is
enough. for a scientist, it
I have never seen such a dense collection of nonsense about cold
fusion or science in general:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/a1045883
See, for example:
"Does a phenomenon have to be totally or partially reproducible to be
real? As far as science is concerned, the answer is 'totally'.
Reprodu
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