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Thread #154775   Message #3635705
Posted By: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
22-Jun-14 - 04:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Scientific misconceptions.
Subject: RE: BS: Scientific misconceptions.
Rumncoke: ".....idea that injecting or altering DNA will instantly alter the size, appearance and/or behaviour of an organism could be forbidden as a plot in books, films or whatever.
It just doesn't work like that."

It only works that way in politics!.....(Speaking of fiction...)



frogprince: "I wouldn't really think it objectionable to refer to a hypothesis as an "educated guess", if"

I think it's perfectly logical...'educated', as if the homework has been done, enough to 'Guess'..as in 'try it out'.


Ebbie: "GfS has an odd definition of 'guess'. Not even like a dartboard- if one posits a dartboard as being a body of information, that makes the dart a guess. But no. He seems to believe that science consists of guesses being unrelated to any actual information whatever."

SEE ABOVE.


Ed T: "Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified."

...considering we knew what the truth was all along....

and then there's this..

......considering we knew what the truth was all along....especially when what has been done to 'politics' and 'religion'....after all, they filter most the answers and concepts.....even steer you what questions to ask, while discouraging others...

GfS