Why does everyone disparage the unicorns? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025793/The-horned-deer-solve-mystery-unicorn.html Which evidence is more credible?
Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote: >first of all if I prepare an NiH-Bomb to destroy texas and saudi arabia, >I have no incentive to prove i'm right... >the opposite, I will try to maintain doubt not to frighten the chicken >before the lunch. > >I just wait the bomb to work, and the client to pay when Texas is vitrified. > >Second if I'm the governor of Texas, to avoid panic I might look for the >reality of the menace, >at least to block panic... or to save my selfish butt. > >about the incredible claim, it is not so incredible... not much more than >high temperature superconduction (by the way the press just have talk aboit >a very high temp claim of supraconduction). by the way, the key mecanisme >of LENR is probably of the same family as superconductivity. > >seriously the principle of the null hypothesis is not good for decision >making (many manipulation, todays in science is to manipulate the null >hypothesis to force a decision). >when there are possibilities, you just have to compare them, checking their >credibilities. > >if like you propose one simply don't investigate if it looks weird, all >that happens today is logic. > >same for press, but to be honest LENR is more probable that Opera fast >neutrino, or toxicity of GSM antennas, or homeopathy, however they dare to >talk of those unicorn... >so LENR is a satanic unicorn. > >anyway, neither media nor finance, nor government have anticipated >sub-prime crisis, except a few crazy economist like roubini. >won't be the first time the miss an elephant in the living room, because >nobody accept to see it in front of the other. > >2011/12/10 Giovanni Santostasi <[email protected]> > >> What is not understood by many people is that when you make incredible >> claims it is up to the person making claims to show the claims are true and >> it is not up to everybody else to prove the claims are not true. >> >> Do you think if I announce a press conference about the unicorn in my >> basement I would get much international media attention? >>
