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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 08:16:06 [Permalink]
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In Shermer's column in the July, 2009, Scientific American:The principle of positive evidence applies to all claims. Skeptics are from Missouri, the Show-Me State. Show me a Sasquatch body. Show me the archeological artifacts from Atlantis. Show me a Ouija board that spells words with securely blindfolded participants. Show me a Nostradamus quatrain that predicted World War II or 9/11 before (not after) the fact (postdictions don't count in science). Show me the evidence that alternative medicines work better than placebos. Show me an ET or take me to the Mothership. Show me the Intelligent Designer. Show me God. Show me, and I'll believe. Show me that Libertarianism will benefit our whole society, Michael. You said, "all claims." |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
 Posted - 06/20/2009 : 08:44:40 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
In Shermer's column in the July, 2009, Scientific American:The principle of positive evidence applies to all claims. Skeptics are from Missouri, the Show-Me State. Show me a Sasquatch body. Show me the archeological artifacts from Atlantis. Show me a Ouija board that spells words with securely blindfolded participants. Show me a Nostradamus quatrain that predicted World War II or 9/11 before (not after) the fact (postdictions don't count in science). Show me the evidence that alternative medicines work better than placebos. Show me an ET or take me to the Mothership. Show me the Intelligent Designer. Show me God. Show me, and I'll believe. Show me that Libertarianism will benefit our whole society, Michael. You said, "all claims."
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It's maddening, isn't it? I would love it if he pulled his libertarian crap over at Sci Am. I hope he is crazy enough to try. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 06/20/2009 : 09:28:04 [Permalink]
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I consider it a form of cognitive dissonance myself.
As I like to say: 'Libertarianism is the idea that reducing the amount of government will improve it. Sounds like governmental homoeopathy to me'. |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Why Michael Shermer is a Libertarian
