Darn good article.
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To: swilhelm73
Its old but a great read.
To: swilhelm73
"Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics."
As Margaret Thatcher said about consensus:
"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."
4 posted on
12/13/2004 3:04:40 PM PST by
LibFreeOrDie
(A Freep a day keeps the liberals away.)
To: swilhelm73
Good article; hadn't seen it before. Thanks for re-posting it.
5 posted on
12/13/2004 3:04:50 PM PST by
7.62 x 51mm
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To: swilhelm73
Thanks for the excellent post. I had not seen this before.
6 posted on
12/13/2004 3:11:22 PM PST by
laishly
To: swilhelm73
A BTT for a great line - Richard Feynman was characteristically blunt, saying, "I really don't think these guys know what they're talking about..."
To: swilhelm73
9 posted on
12/13/2004 3:28:47 PM PST by
stm
To: swilhelm73
"Aliens From Outer Space - We're All Gonna Die" BUMP!
10 posted on
12/13/2004 3:30:40 PM PST by
upchuck
(My "just in time" supply chain for taglines is busted. Come back tomorrow.)
To: swilhelm73
As good an explanation of junk science as I have seen yet.
Science by consensus.
12 posted on
12/13/2004 3:33:27 PM PST by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: swilhelm73
Seems that every one of these Crichton talks has its own scary aspect to it. Anyone who quotes Carl Sagan about anything scientific goes down a peg in my book.
ML/NJ
13 posted on
12/13/2004 3:33:43 PM PST by
ml/nj
To: swilhelm73
Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses?
LOL ... how times change! Thanks for posting - an excellent read.
To: swilhelm73
FWIW, I've spent some time reading the comments made to the
other posts of this article. Worth it.
16 posted on
12/13/2004 3:40:00 PM PST by
upchuck
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Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
17 posted on
12/13/2004 3:44:13 PM PST by
farmfriend
( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
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18 posted on
12/13/2004 3:45:36 PM PST by
Sam Cree
(Democrats are herd animals)
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19 posted on
12/13/2004 3:49:34 PM PST by
NewLand
(I'm a Generation Jones'er and WE elected President Bush!)
To: swilhelm73
Wow. Thanks for posting that. A terrific read...
20 posted on
12/13/2004 4:04:09 PM PST by
Future Snake Eater
("Stupid grandma leaver-outers!"--Tom Servo)
To: swilhelm73; cogitator
Cogitator, care to try a rebuttal of this piece? I doubt you can do it but I'd be interested in your specific response.
21 posted on
12/13/2004 4:09:01 PM PST by
Bernard Marx
(Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
To: swilhelm73
When did "skeptic" become a dirty word in science? When did a skeptic require quotation marks around it?
About the same time "discriminating/discrimination" and "prejudice" became dirty words.
22 posted on
12/13/2004 4:09:07 PM PST by
yankeedame
("Born with the gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad.")
To: swilhelm73; Physicist
SETI is unquestionably a religion. Codswallop! Crichton is pontificating here!
To: swilhelm73
Yeah. Great article.
I'm not really a fan of Chrichton's fiction, but his essays are spot-on.
27 posted on
12/13/2004 4:25:23 PM PST by
FierceDraka
("Megatons Make It Fun!")
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31 posted on
12/13/2004 4:49:07 PM PST by
agincourt1415
(Hic Fructus Virtutis)
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