Tell me again why so many people place so much faith in scientists?
The mountains around here are very ancient ~ among the oldest ~ except, of course, for the even older mountain chain buried under thousands of feet of solid rock in Indiana!
Those suckers are OLD.
Astronomers could decide to call Pluto a “zgnorph” and it would make absolutely no difference to science or the scientific method.
Tell you again why people place so much faith in scientists?
Vaccinations
Antibiotics
Medicine
the computer
The moon shot
the atomic bomb.
I fear for that segment of America taught to hate and fear that which they, by their own willing ignorance, will never understand.
People have confidence in science because its findings are replicable, subject to peer review, and revision in light of new data.
People have confidence in science because it works and has a demonstrated record of success.
Because they design the equipment that you use to post with.
Because, doofus, of its irrefutable simplicity:
First there was nothing...
...and then it exploded!
Go ahead; try arguing with that!
Oh, brother. First Pluto is a planet, and then it’s not a planet. First, the Andes mountains are 6 million years old and then they’re 12 million years old. And now this.
Tell me again why so many people place so much faith in scientists?
Well, some people place their faith in God, and some people place their faith in scientists. It’s pretty much exactly that simple.
Good point about Pluto...Pluto is still Pluto...it never changes, only classification(s) changed here back on earth, but no explanations how we taught kids 9 planets in the solar system existed in our solar system one day and the very next day Pluto was demoted; but apparently some astronomers met and decided to remove it from planethood. Once again, science by concensus.
It could still be a “mini-planet”, but not all astronomers agreed with this, indeed some were pretty vocal about the powers that be meeting and a few making these changes and speaking for all astronomers on one weekend junket.
Of course anyone that approaches science with the same evo-fascism calls the astronomers making these changes “real astronomers” and those that don’t march lockstep with the changes: dumb, zealots, anti-science and what have you.
I would go into peer review of medications, food, etc and the obvious myriad conflicts of interests when human beings submit their findings from studying everything from wine to tobacco to their Daddy-in-law owning a winery in California but non-cultists understand this anyway. NO WONDER red wine is great for you in moderation one day and is practically lethal in moderation the next.
And once again, no one appointed liberals the gate-keepers to anything, above all science. It just didn’t happen.