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Zebra
Skeptic Friend
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 11/18/2008 : 04:59:22 [Permalink]
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Oh ye gods -- a sixth sense or a sixpence worth of wishful dreaming? In an interview with The Sunday Times, Lord Drayson said: 'In my life there have been some things I have known, and I don't know why.
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Because you obviously fail to understand that everyone knows things such as that. And why? well, its knowledge gleaned from subtle clues that you don't pay much conscious attention to until they have built up enough information to 'appear,' as it were. Nothing magic about it.
It's an old, evolutionary survival device that, at least today, is wrong as often as right. C'mon Lord D., be a scientist and not some jumped-up fortune teller with an archaic title.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
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Posted - 11/18/2008 : 06:50:05 [Permalink]
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| A PhD in Robotics. In other words, an engineer. Engineers generally (painting with a broad brush here, if it doesn't apply to you I obviously didn't mean you) are completely ignorant about psychology. |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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UK's new science minister has...sixth sense
