[Strategerist]

I’m genuinely curious.

You and kinoxi obviously have a deep-seated contempt for scientists (and even the process of science, perhaps.) Why? What drives it?

[skinkinthegrass]

....they (have/don't have) faith.

[verum ago]

don't have faith... lol, considering ad hoc fixes are how creationists maintain their theories to deal with evidence against them.

I was merely being humorously (to some) cynical about the price tags on many scientific endeavors and pieces of equipment, and about theoretical science— that which consists only of theory and observation, as opposed to experimental science— that which can falsified directly via experiment and not by the happy coincidence of something doing something that contradicts theory while we happen to be observing it. Which isn't to say that theoretical science is not without logic or utility.

One would think that FReepers would be used to cynicism by now, but that's only a supposition. And I could say that skinkinthegrass 'obviously' has 'a deep seated contempt' for the religious, but I think I'll refrain from doing so in case that he/she may have been cynically humorous in their remark.

[ForGod'sSake]

You and kinoxi obviously have a deep-seated contempt for scientists (and even the process of science, perhaps.) Why? What drives it?

Hope you don't mind if I butt in here ;^)

Let me start by suggesting anyone NOT finding major problems wihtin the scientific community™ should actually declare their religion. Since scientology is taken, I offer as a suggestion, denialogy. That is, you accept on faith everything promulgated that protects their sacred cows or sacred cowboys. There is a bold new world out there for all disciplines of science -- with the exception of anything that could disturb the status quo. It would appear to the layman, simple minded people have obtained control of the flow of scientific information.

If you're truly interested in discovering why there are a few around that distrust much of mainstream science, just have a look at mainstream media. Their incessant spreading of cow manure has been exposed for most of the world to see; maybe it's time the same be done for the scientific community™.

The PICTURE THAT WON'T GO AWAY.