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Originally Posted by sjastro
So you agree with this piece of sanctimonious claptrap which in itself is designed be highly insulting. Then of course there is the childish reference to the spelling of "Gobbledygook".
A wonderful piece of hypocrisy to pontificate on the behaviour of other people while at the same engaging in personal attacks.
Steven
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Steve,
Maybe you should read back your own words and consider the blatant hypocrisy in every point you make !
My argument is with the delivery and emotion and raising the point that life discovery is just one small side alley of the whole process, the goals of understanding solar system evolution are just as lofty if less emotion stirring.
Since you guys love to make the allegations of a strawman argument - this is just such a thing - arguing that we can never discover or confirm life on such a distant planet and then on that basis we should shut down the total program of exoplanetary research !
For 'scientists' the views expressed are like going back to the dark ages.
If Craig happens to have a bent on the wastefulness or prioritisation of exoplanetary discovery because it may or may not result in the discovery of life or potential life thats fine by me, he is allowed any opinion he likes, but he needn't do it in the way he did on two separate threads on exoplanetary discovery.
So that means that anyone who dares to put up a thread that has the barest hint of life associated with on a newly discovered exoplanet has this to contend with - well that simply isn't civil and since the moderators havent acted I made my comment.
In any other forum that behaviour would be called Trolling.
I avoid the 'science' forum like the plague, but I happen to view the forum via the new posts option so unfortunately I cant avoid it entirely.
The carry on here is what one expects from a completely unmoderated forum.