Re: UFO Detector Going Nuts

  Pro Plyd wrote:

We all hope you get the care you so urgently
need.

"We"
So you parade a multiple personality disorder but it's
everyone else who needs care...
I like testing ideas. That's science. That's setting
aside what "Looks" wrong or even stupid and not
assuming knowledge. You TEST ideas, you don't merely
decide that something isn't worth testing.
This isn't the dark ages. You're not supposed to be
an ignorant peasant.
And I like examples that the fakers dismiss on
prejudice, pretending that they're being "Science"
or doing "Science" or whatever it is you like to
pretend.
BECAUSE it's real easy when you take it serious. It's
real easy when you're interested in a topic, and you
don't know an answer AND YOU KNOW THAT YOU DON'T HAVE
THE ANSWER but you want the answer... it's real easy
to test ideas. It's real easy to formulate a hypothesis
of sorts, make a prediction on how something should
turn out, if correct, and then test for that result. It's
real easy when you're open to finding an answer.
It's not so easy when your bias is showing.
So that's why I like these examples, I LOVE these examples.
Not because you're so perfect but because you are so
astoundingly lazy. You assume. You place your bias first.
You yield to headlines, what you perceive as authority.
AND you can get away with that only so long as your bias
closely matches the common or popular bias.
But...
Stray from the mainstream just a little and you can't
hide it. "Science" is absent from you, from your thinking.
Testing actually offends you, as it did in this case.
That's what I did, talk about testing ideas...
Some UFO guy thinks flying saucers create electromagnetic
fields, so he hung a magnet to detect such an
electromagnetic field, or at least any changes to the one
already around him.
He's more "Science" than you.
Sure he could go further. Sure you can claim that it's still
"Woo" because though the effect is present the answer -- "It
has to be a flying saucer!" -- is somewhat of an extraordinary
claim when more "Earthly" answers would do. But instead of
refining things, deconstructing the problem, coming up with
further tests which might be consistent with or exclude an
answer, you wet your pants.
Typical.
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