yes Eric, I notice many critics just show that many people cannor manage uncertainty, unknown, the phi 1/0... there have to thing with a prediction scenario, not with alternative stories that they weight as more or less credible.
moreover they cannot backtrack, like a prolog engine can do... they are greedy like those outdated optimisation methods... they can only go forward. note that this incapacity to go backward to change one position is what found the groupthink. people who starte reasonably, rationally, to believe in an hypothesis, after they invested too much (as a group) in that hypothesis, cannot accept the losses and backtrack. this is an education problem 2014-10-17 8:04 GMT+02:00 Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > No matter how strongly you believe in the phenomenon of LENR, and I’m >> firmly in that camp – bad actors should be weeded out. Rossi is a bad actor >> here ... > > > This is the same conclusion that Krivit has come to, and that Pomp and > Mary Yugo and many others have come to. All on the basis of the most > circumstantial of evidence. My theory -- these folks are not comfortable > with ambiguity and gaps in one's knowledge. There is a burning desire to > fill in the gaps, even when the information necessary to do so is > incomplete or unavailable. The temptation to take short cuts to get to > some kind of certainty must be so overwhelming to these people that they do > not realize they're doing it. > > Eric > >
