On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:27 PM, John Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Actually skeptics (correctly called pseudo skeptics) are far worse than > that. > > They even disbelieve things that can be explained by establishment dogma. > Actually, that which "can be explained by establishment dogma" is far from obvious in all cases and, indeed, is provably undecidable in that sense (see Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem). As I concluded my little parable of "Institutional Incompetence, "Conspiracy Theories" and Pol Pot<http://jimbowery.blogspot.com/2011/07/institutional-incompetence-conspiracy.html> ": Pol Pot:* So even though mathematicians spend their lives exploring the full implications of a few axioms and barely make a dent in the potential theorems, and even though physicists can't claim the formal rigor of mathematical proof, you claim that it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the statement "deuterium fusion cannot occur with heat but without neutrons, gamma rays or tritium" is true?* * *
