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Offlinemoi
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Re: The Danger of Science Denial [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #15441346 - 11/29/11 06:05 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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MushroomTrip said:
Why don't you enlighten us?



i was giving food for thought for samuraidrifter. you can think about it too, if you like.

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Re: The Danger of Science Denial [Re: NetDiver]
    #15442242 - 11/29/11 08:55 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Interesting talk, but not that cohesive or well thought out and the guy is hard to listen to.  He tends to blur the line between science and applied technology in defense of science, so I'm not sure what he's trying to say.

For anyone that would like to forego listening to him this link has a transcript to the right of the video.

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_specter_the_danger_of_science_denial.html

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Re: The Danger of Science Denial [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #15442747 - 11/29/11 11:21 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

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MushroomTrip said:
Why don't you enlighten us?



ok, let me throw you a small bone, brah.


"He warns the trend spells disaster for human progress."



everyone is all about bashing on science denialists. but look at my example. look at what blind faith in science does. and to be really honest... i think that the blind followers of science are WAY in the majority, compared to denialists. almost everyone will take the antidepressants, when their doctor gives a shallow diagnosis of minor depression and offers them. cause they know there has been some science behind these things. must mean they are good. right?


everything that has ever been touched by science must be good, right? every theory, every product, etc etc. no, of course not. but the majority of people have been conditioned to think in such a way, imho.




there's no way we'll stop being scientific about things, which i think is great. so imho there's no trend towards "denial of science". not really. dumb people might do this. so what? is it really a disaster for human progress if dumb people insist on being dumb? what good could they have done anyway?




i think blind faith in science is a much much worse trend, but you won't hear that talk on TED too soon, ha.

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