[Darkwolf377]

Finding holes in a widely held belief system using the very belief itself to discredit it is bewildering isn't it?

I just find it funny when someone uses the progress of accumulated knowledge, leading to an inevitable discarding of something proved untrue, as "proof" that science is somehow invalid as a field of endeavor. Anti-intellectualism is always so riddled with ignorance and inconsistency that it's amusing to watch its adherents in action.

[Earthdweller]

I'm not Anti-intellectual..on the contrary, some of my best neurons are dependent on it. And like many, I make a very nice living off the sciences.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

I just find it funny when someone uses the progress of accumulated knowledge, leading to an inevitable discarding of something proved untrue, as "proof" that science is somehow invalid as a field of endeavor.

What other inane hallucinations occured to you as you read the article? Did you see, fleeting amid the words and sentences, fairies, elves and little blue trolls too?

[AmishDude]

This is incredible! This thread has discovered the perpetual motion machine. If a scientific discipline is riddled with fraud, then they convince the public of the value of the fraudulent research and get huge funding dollars. Then, when it's discovered to be a fraud, they get even more kudos for the value of the scientific method. More bling.

That's the way it works with embryonic stem cell research. California started funding snake oil research as a direct result of the Korean fraud.

Did the money get cut off? Nope. In fact, other states started following suit. What a scam!

I thought the perpetual motion machine was scientifically impossible, but you know how science is. One day, you use the language of metaphysical certainty. The next, it goes into the rubbish bin and the new theory is gospel.