ShyTalk
Aug4-09, 11:37 AM
I note that Geoff Haselhurst has been banned for no good reason other than making a very reasonable response to some wild criticisms of the SSW theory he supports.
I find it absolutely laughable that a scientific 'message board' which no doubt considers itself a paragon of 'scientific' objectivity in reality behaves like a deliquent squad run by the Spanish inquisition.
Galileo's remarks about such 'scientific' standards do of course remain as true today as they were 100s of years ago:
"I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or Moon or my telescope. ...
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual"
(Galileo Galilei)
I find it absolutely laughable that a scientific 'message board' which no doubt considers itself a paragon of 'scientific' objectivity in reality behaves like a deliquent squad run by the Spanish inquisition.
Galileo's remarks about such 'scientific' standards do of course remain as true today as they were 100s of years ago:
"I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do you think of the foremost philosophers of this University? In spite of my oft-repeated efforts and invitations, they have refused, with the obstinacy of a glutted adder, to look at the planets or Moon or my telescope. ...
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual"
(Galileo Galilei)