Damn the double post! Sorry for that; my incompetence is to blame.
“Science (unlike religion) has proved its myths—by putting men on the moon, mobile phones in people’s pockets, and curing diseases. It’s payed its dues to reliability. So unless I am willing to look into it myself, I should, as a default, believe most things scientists claim.”
Stuart, this in my opinion is an awful sentence, and I’m surprised to read it by an overcomingbias contributor.
It lacks something of the pithiness of “Veni, vedi, Vinci”, I’ll admit. But I stand by what I was trying to say; hopefully my more recent post articulates it better.
Damn the double post! Sorry for that; my incompetence is to blame.
“Science (unlike religion) has proved its myths—by putting men on the moon, mobile phones in people’s pockets, and curing diseases. It’s payed its dues to reliability. So unless I am willing to look into it myself, I should, as a default, believe most things scientists claim.” Stuart, this in my opinion is an awful sentence, and I’m surprised to read it by an overcomingbias contributor.
It lacks something of the pithiness of “Veni, vedi, Vinci”, I’ll admit. But I stand by what I was trying to say; hopefully my more recent post articulates it better.