But you're not asking that there be doubt regarding all theories. You're asking that there be doubt regarding one specific theory. The difference in treatment utterly destroys the validity of what you say.
The mainstream media uses this same technique to slant the news. When a Democrat criticizes a Republican (for example, Trent Lott), they report it, but when a Republican criticizes a Democrat (for example, Robert Byrd), they don't. When they're called on the bias, they rightly say that you can't point to any particular story that exhibits an obvious bias; the words of the Democrats are being accurately reported, after all. If you say that maybe they didn't need to publish a hundred stories about Lott for every hundred complaints about Lott, they accuse you of censorship. Why would you want to hide the accusations of the Democrats from the public?
You insist that students take everything as dogma, Physicist?
Of course not. Putting an equivalent disclaimer on every theory presented to the students would be just fine with me.
Probability: ZERO.
Unfortunately.
I'm not? Sure I am. I've said so in numerous posts. Where did you get this misapprehension of yours?
You're asking that there be doubt regarding one specific theory.
All theories, actually. Frankly I'd be shocked and sickened if, say, General Relativity wasn't presented to students with a similar disclaimer. It should be the standard MO for all theories, and any honest scientist would agree.
The difference in treatment utterly destroys the validity of what you say.
The "difference in treatment" exists only in your head, and doesn't come from anything I wrote.
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I'm tired of following all spurious tangents. Stay on topic.
Putting an equivalent disclaimer on every theory presented to the students would be just fine with me.
Then we agree. Splendid. Best,