Recent content by Hanfonius

I couldn't agree more with this viewpoint. While on the one hand, there are people who make claims, and defy science to offer rational explanations to prove them wrong, it is also equally wrong for science to dismiss such claims with arrogancy. Unless the claims are obviously insincere, they...

This is so thought provoking. Our building blocks of knowledge are growing rapidly each generation, and this must serve to increase our scope of imagination. This is where the science fiction writers dwell - but much of what they imagined has become reality. Perhaps just around the corner, we...

I had never heard of Pearl Buck - I guess this shows a local of formal education! OK, so the offending words here are 'basic scientific principle'. If semantics can be bent slightly, and another phrase inserted to substitute three words, do you consider my assertions to be valid? Perhaps...

I keep finding the words, 'The basic scientific principle that everything is possible until proven not.', and I cannot help but consider it accurate. While it is misused in the sense of, 'I believe in UFO's - you prove me wrong.', how can it conceivably be wrong when used in the sense of...

Thankyou, Evo, for an excellent summarising for this topic. Thankyou, also, to the other contributors for your contributions.

Thanks again, Proton. I have always considered myself to be immortal, and so far, so good. My doctor did confirm that there is evidence that statins can delay the onset of Alzheimers, and although neither of us are worried about my cholesterol levels (now just under 5), it wouldn't do...

Thankyou, Proton, for your advice. As you know, I have since opened up a new topic on this question. My latest input is there. Still, it never hurts to hear good advice twice!

I take one 400mg Cod Live Oil capsule each morning. Additionally, following up from the next post by Proton Soup, I also take one 81mg Aspirin because I have been told that it could help to prevent heart attacks and strokes (I'm a pensioner). I have never experienced either. Hmmm, doesn't...

I thank you all for the clarification regarding science. I shall ponder these points at leisure. One question that comes to mind though. Could a legal judge said to be working within a scientific area?

I really don't have a problem with Science (at least I didn't think I had), but over the last couple of weeks I have been reading various topics on this site where I see so much dogmaticism by purists. Science to me involves the current concept of scientific method: 1. Observation and...

I apologise for the UFO reference that I made at the beginning of my original question - I had been participating in a different topic prior to laying this one before your consideration. To a layman such as I am, my question should perhaps have been this: meteorology produces 'best guesses'...

When I read a report on an UFO siting, I like to read it as reported. It may be a load of old rubbish, or delusion, but it may also be true. At that time, I do not need to apply scientific proofing. Let's take an established science, one that has passed all of the tests, and is an undisputed...

Thankyou, Ivan, for your response to my question. Er..., I'm not really clever enough to be able to understand the responses, but I think that they are saying 'Yes' and 'No'. ? Perhaps I should question my own doctor a little more. When I mentioned that I have been taking them for some...

I have been constantly advised to take cod liver oil capsules to relieve rheumatic and arthritic joint pains. Is this a proven theraputic fact, and/or does it have any scientific basis? I know people who swear by them, but having used them daily for the past six months, I feel just the same...

Thankyou, ZapperZ. I've read the quoted article, and I find it most convincing. Added to my own personal experience of a magnetic bracelet, which was zero benefits, I am now convinced that it is another 'con'. Well, we seem to have killed this topic in a very short space of time...