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To: spunkets
I gave you how it is.

Utopian science, never muddled, never too confident, always objective, always open. If you aren't laughing yet, there's no hope for you.

You're free to address any of the particulars as you would like to.

Like a pilot telling his horrified passengers, "If you don't like the way I fly, come up here and do it yourself." Or perhaps it would be reasonable to expect scientists to stick not only to scientific method, but also to logical restraint about the uncertainty of their theories.

Every single scientific theory that has been shown to be inaccurate, had great evidence behind it, right up to the point where new evidence became available.

Is it really asking so much that scientists don't understate the possible unknowns and as yet unquantifiable variables in their conclussions?

51 posted on 11/16/2006 3:14:10 PM PST by SampleMan (Do not dispute the peacefulness of Islam, so as not to send Muslims into violent outrage.)
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To: SampleMan
" Every single scientific theory that has been shown to be inaccurate, had great evidence behind it"

Examples?

53 posted on 11/16/2006 3:21:22 PM PST by spunkets
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To: SampleMan
Is it really asking so much that scientists don't understate the possible unknowns and as yet unquantifiable variables in their conclussions?

An issue with that is, often they don't know what they don't know. A general attitude of humility would be a better strategy.

And, in fact, that's often the case. Perhaps you've not visited many science threads here, but often a properly hedged report will be ridiculed by our unfortunately large Luddite population.

62 posted on 11/17/2006 1:33:38 PM PST by edsheppa
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