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Sad
Very sad that even oh a science related website like this it's impossible to have a rational science based discussion about the facts and what science can and can't draw from them. Too many people are getting what scientist are saying and what environmentalist and worst the environmentalist are saying. Worst still many people seem unable or unwilling to follow some very basic scientific principles. While there are differing scientific opinions on what the facts mean. Despite what some groups may wish people to believe the science journals are a hot bed of robust debate. This subject has been thrashed out in the pages of science journals over the last 30 years or so. There are times when very good scientist are just plain wrong. Einstein views on QED are a good example. He hadn't or couldn't keep up with the change in understanding and in the end just plain didn't want to except the conclusions. In fact his famous comment on QED namely “God does not play dice” has become the catch phase of many a nut.
The same can be seen with global warming denial’ers, anti-evolutionist, and just about any modern scientific world view you’ll get some fridge group coming out against it. Often with very common sense reasons why the scientific consensus is wrong. I think what was most disappointing part of last night was the question(?) from the audience. It would have been a good chance to talk about some of the issue however that’s not what we got. Now it’s a fact that all scientist bring their own hypothesis however hypothesis don’t become mainstream theories except via the weight of facts. For those who doubt that just me an example.
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