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Thread #58954   Message #936565
Posted By: Amos
19-Apr-03 - 01:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bogus science--warning signs
Subject: RE: BS: Bogus science--warning signs
It is extremely important to notice that "all true data" and "science" are two very distinct sets. They do seem to intersect somewhat. The blessing of the word "scientific" is given to a process for increasing the intersection between those two sets. But there a re plenty of data in the set called "science" which are pure malarkey, and there are even more data, Horatio, in the set of "true data" that science hasn't even come close to. Its great merit and virtue is that it intends to try.

It is very easy to use "bogus science" as a label for data which is perfectly true but hasn't made the hoops into scientific recognition.

But bear in mind, too, that scientific recognition, like all data, is an artifact of human thought, not an external reality.

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