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by NoMoreNicksLeft
969 days ago
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> which he calls the "Distributed Idea Suppression Complex", because they're all in a big conspiracy to suppress his genius ideas. I don't say this sarcastically or ironically... but isn't that one of the big things proper science actually does? Think about it for a moment, science is the business of suppressing all the stupid ideas humans have come up with over the centuries. And until it got started doing that, those ideas were everywhere, keeping everyone ignorant. It has a somewhat careful methodology to this suppression. It designs experiments to falsify everything it can, conducts those experiments rigorously and exhaustively, until everyone is convinced that those ideas are wrong and the ideas are as dead as doornails. But, if somehow it comes across one that is falsifiable but that can't be falsified by experiment, it moves on... plenty of other ideas to suppress. Hell, science should adopt that moniker and run with it. Be proud of it. It's one of the things it gets right. If that's his worst jab at science, he's just lazy and not very clever. |
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